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...Is another Hollywood balls-up of another decent book. The Bourne Identity, I realised after a few viewings, would be an enjoyable rogue-spy film if you hadn't read the book and realised that this is Hollywood ripping Robert Ludlum's tense thriller to shreds and replacing it with Matt Damon aiming his oversized forehead at BMW Owen, being angree at Julia Stiles and Gay Army-Dad from American Beauty and giving the bird from Run Lola Run a good seeing to. It doesn't even have the central villian that was crucial to the Bourne character.
Instead of a convert game of double-crossing and amnesia fun, we got Will Hunting driving a Mini around Paris. Great.
Now, the second book isn't as good as Identity, but it seemed to me that it'd be much easier to be loyal to the Bourne set-up premise and general book plot. So I was cautiously hopeful.
But no. We have a Bourne set-up, but there's no governmental stuff and Chinese angry government. Instead, for no reason at all, you have a oil baron who is comically Russian and therefore Evil.
And that's no the worst bit. Nor is Eomer from Lord of the Rings running around in evil Russian mode. He wears black and has a goatee. Therefore he is Evil.
The worst bit is them completely f**king over another key character from the book. If you see this film, try and remember that Ward Abbott is nothing like his film portrayal. Go read the books. Seriously.
I'll just put the huge gap between film and book into context. If this had been Lord of the Rings, Sauron wouldn't be in it, Gandalf would be secretly on the evil side and Frodo would be played by Ben Affleck.
Muuuh.
Instead of a convert game of double-crossing and amnesia fun, we got Will Hunting driving a Mini around Paris. Great.
Now, the second book isn't as good as Identity, but it seemed to me that it'd be much easier to be loyal to the Bourne set-up premise and general book plot. So I was cautiously hopeful.
But no. We have a Bourne set-up, but there's no governmental stuff and Chinese angry government. Instead, for no reason at all, you have a oil baron who is comically Russian and therefore Evil.
And that's no the worst bit. Nor is Eomer from Lord of the Rings running around in evil Russian mode. He wears black and has a goatee. Therefore he is Evil.
The worst bit is them completely f**king over another key character from the book. If you see this film, try and remember that Ward Abbott is nothing like his film portrayal. Go read the books. Seriously.
I'll just put the huge gap between film and book into context. If this had been Lord of the Rings, Sauron wouldn't be in it, Gandalf would be secretly on the evil side and Frodo would be played by Ben Affleck.
Muuuh.
seen both films and loved them both.
You wound me, Snuggly.
But this isn't Lord of the Rings.
I haven't read the books, but I thought the film was alright.
I haven't read the books, but I thought the film was alright.
Books are overrated. Movies are like books you can see and hear, and you don't have to move your lips when people talk.
...Is another Hollywood balls-up of another decent book. The Bourne Identity, I realised after a few viewings, would be an enjoyable rogue-spy film if you hadn't read the book and realised that this is Hollywood ripping Robert Ludlum's tense thriller to shreds and replacing it with Matt Damon aiming his oversized forehead at BMW Owen, being angree at Julia Stiles and Gay Army-Dad from American Beauty and giving the bird from Run Lola Run a good seeing to. It doesn't even have the central villian that was crucial to the Bourne character.
Instead of a convert game of double-crossing and amnesia fun, we got Will Hunting driving a Mini around Paris. Great.
Now, the second book isn't as good as Identity, but it seemed to me that it'd be much easier to be loyal to the Bourne set-up premise and general book plot. So I was cautiously hopeful.
But no. We have a Bourne set-up, but there's no governmental stuff and Chinese angry government. Instead, for no reason at all, you have a oil baron who is comically Russian and therefore Evil.
And that's no the worst bit. Nor is Eomer from Lord of the Rings running around in evil Russian mode. He wears black and has a goatee. Therefore he is Evil.
The worst bit is them completely f**king over another key character from the book. If you see this film, try and remember that Ward Abbott is nothing like his film portrayal. Go read the books. Seriously.
I'll just put the huge gap between film and book into context. If this had been Lord of the Rings, Sauron wouldn't be in it, Gandalf would be secretly on the evil side and Frodo would be played by Ben Affleck.
Muuuh.
Instead of a convert game of double-crossing and amnesia fun, we got Will Hunting driving a Mini around Paris. Great.
Now, the second book isn't as good as Identity, but it seemed to me that it'd be much easier to be loyal to the Bourne set-up premise and general book plot. So I was cautiously hopeful.
But no. We have a Bourne set-up, but there's no governmental stuff and Chinese angry government. Instead, for no reason at all, you have a oil baron who is comically Russian and therefore Evil.
And that's no the worst bit. Nor is Eomer from Lord of the Rings running around in evil Russian mode. He wears black and has a goatee. Therefore he is Evil.
The worst bit is them completely f**king over another key character from the book. If you see this film, try and remember that Ward Abbott is nothing like his film portrayal. Go read the books. Seriously.
I'll just put the huge gap between film and book into context. If this had been Lord of the Rings, Sauron wouldn't be in it, Gandalf would be secretly on the evil side and Frodo would be played by Ben Affleck.
Muuuh.