Neither lead character talks much, but both command the screen nonetheless. In fact, for an action movie, The Bourne Identity is remarkably quiet. The scene when he dyes and cuts Marie's hair is incredibly intimate, made even more potent by the near silence of the scene. What makes this thriller so good is Damon's ability to merge the physical with the emotional he's strong, skilled, and smart, but he's also generous, honest, and tender. As he attempts to put the clues of his past life together, he pays a young woman named Marie ( Franka Potente) to drive him to Paris and they both become embroiled in the mystery of his true identity, which has links to the CIA, an African politician, and a handful of European assasins who seem to be out to kill him.

When confronted by law enforcement, he finds he has incredible combat skills (not to mention wall-scaling abilities). After a visit to the bank uncovers a cache of money, fake passports, and a gun, the man struggles to recall his past. After fishermen pull a body out of the ocean and remove two bullets and a strange device containing a Swiss bank account number from his body, the man ( Matt Damon) awakens in a state of amnesia. Based on a book by Robert Ludlum, the movie is a tightly knit wonder of intense, heart-pounding action and mystery, with the perfect amount of romance tucked in for good measure.

THE BOURNE IDENTITY is the first in a trilogy of movies that made Matt Damon an unlikely action star.

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