![]() He speaks several languages, is a formidable martial artist, has highly trained powers of observation and memory, knows all the spy tricks and is a formidable driver. Now that he is alive, he must be killed, and the assignment goes to a group of CIA killers, especially the Professor ( Clive Owen), who is as highly trained as Bourne. Meanwhile, the movie cuts to CIA headquarters in Virginia, where we meet Bourne's handler Conklin ( Chris Cooper), and his boss Abbott ( Brian Cox). Determined to find out his real name, and why he was floating in the Mediterranean, Bourne pays $10,000 to a gypsy named Marie ( Franka Potente from " Run Lola Run") to drive him to Paris. Indeed, he finds out who he may be by looking inside the red bag from the bank, where he finds several passports, one saying his name is Bourne. ![]() The friendly fisherman gives the rescued man (who doesn't remember who he is) money to take the train to Switzerland, and he is welcomed in that nation and withdraws a fortune from a bank despite lacking a name or any form of personal identification. ![]() Hauled aboard, the body turns out to be alive, to have two bullet wounds and to have a capsule embedded under the skin, which contains the code to a Swiss bank account. (There's a good possibility he would also be targeted if he had succeeded.) As the movie opens, a fisherman on a boat out of Marseilles spots a body floating in what is obviously a studio back-lot tank. Just as the guardians of the Navajo " Windtalkers" in another new movie are told to kill their charges rather than let them fall into enemy hands, so is Bourne, or whatever his name is, targeted for death after he fails to assassinate an African leader. Even the people who want to kill Damon are only doing their jobs. ![]() There are no good guys in the movie-certainly not the hero, played by Matt Damon, who is a trained assassin-and no bad guys, either. Perhaps it is about the amoral climate in spy agencies like the CIA. Because they are done well, because the movie is well-crafted and acted, we give it a pass. The entire story is a set-up for the martial arts and chases. "The Bourne Identity" is a skillful action movie about a plot that exists only to support a skillful action movie.
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