As The Bourne Identity begins a man who may or may not be Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is found floating in the Mediterranean Sea and is hauled onto a fishing boat. When the ship's doctor examines the unconscious castaway he discovers two bullet wounds and an implanted device that displays a Swiss bank account number. With nothing but this code the amnesiac Bourne travels to Zurich and gains access to a safe-deposit box containing a gun thousands of dollars in various currencies and valid passports from numerous countries--each listing a different identity. Within... minutes Bourne is on the run from a seemingly ever-present agency relying on language and fighting skills he didn't even know he possessed. Offering $20 000 for a ride to Paris Bourne gains the reluctant help of the nomadic Marie (Franka Potente). Meanwhile the shadowy organization headed by a tough-talking bureaucrat (Chris Cooper) sends numerous assassins (including the Professor played by Clive Owen) after Bourne and Marie. As their situation grows more perilous the two strangers struggle to find out who Bourne really is and why they are being hunted. The Bourne Supremacy re-enters the shadowy world of expert assassin Jason Bourne (Damon) who continues to find himself plagued by the splintered nightmares from his former life. The stakes are now even higher for the agent as he coolly maneuvers through the dangerous waters of international espionage-replete with CIA plots turncoat agents and ever-shifting covert alliances-all the while hoping to find the truth behind his haunted memories and answers to his own fragmented past. The Bourne Ultimatum: All he wanted was to disappear; instead Jason Bourne is now hunted by the people who made him what he is - a legendary assassin. Having lost his memory and the one person he loved he is undeterred by the barrage of bullets and a new generation of highly-trained killers. Bourne has only one objective: to go back to the beginning and find out who he was. Now in the new chapter of this espionage series Bourne will hunt down his past in order to find a future. [show more]
This boxset offers a great triple-helping of the sublime Bourne series.
A commendably complex plot structure spans the trilogy and watching the films over the course of a week thankfully helps avoid the "what happened in the last one?" question.
But it also showcases a fantastic perfomance across the series by Matt Damon.
His character - Jason Bourne - begins as a shellshocked amnesiac robbed of his identity and personality, before piecing his memory and life back together, falling in love, suffering tragedy and reverting back to form as a highly trained killer hell-bent on revenge.
Thrillers rarely come as sensitive and intelligent as the Bourne films. But that is not to say they lack anything in the thrills and spills department.
Car chases, shoot outs and hand to hand combat are all taken to the next level as elite assasins relentlessly pursue Bourne across the winding cities of Europe and north Africa - offering a refreshing blur of cobbled squares and Citroens instead of freeways and squad cars.
This trilogy has everything - guns, cars, planes and brains.
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Accomplished action/thriller trilogy based on Robert Ludlum's bestselling novels and starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, an amnesiac CIA assassin on the run from his former paymasters. In 'The Bourne Identity' (2002), Bourne is pulled out of the Mediterranean by fishermen, badly wounded and suffering from amnesia. Unable to recall either who he is or what has happened to him, his only clue to his identity is the number of a Swiss bank account which has been etched into a device implanted in his body. Following the lead to Zurich, he discovers money, passports and a gun waiting for him, but also earns the attention of the security services and has to leave in a hurry. He then persuades a young woman named Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente) to drive him to Paris, where he hopes to find out his true identity and discover the reason why the CIA are taking such an interest in him. In 'The Bourne Supremacy' (2004), Bourne (Damon) has left his violent past behind him and is living a normal life with girlfriend Marie (Potente) under an assumed name. But his plans for a peaceful life are crushed when he narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. Now hunted by an unknown enemy, Bourne must prove that he is not an easy target. In 'The Bourne Ultimatum' (2007), the tension is ratcheted up even further as Bourne (Damon) races to uncover the dark mysteries of his past while a government agent is hot on his trail following a shootout in Moscow.
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