“男は、彼らの「武器」となる為に訓練された筈だった...”
ある嵐の夜、イタリアの漁船が洋上に漂う意識不明の若い男を発見する。引き上げられたその男の背中には弾痕があり、皮下にはマイクロカプセルが埋め込まれ、それにはスイスの銀行の口座番号が印されていた。男はなんとか息を吹き返すが、記憶を失っており、自分の名前も分からない状態だった。数週間後、彼は身元の唯一の手掛かりであるスイスの銀行に向かう。その貸金庫にはジェイソン・ボーン名義を含め6ヵ国のパスポートや大金、そして拳銃が入っていた。やがて暗殺者たちに狙われ始めた彼は、偶然出会ったマリーの協力を得てパリへと向かうのだった。
製作費: $60,000,000 (90億円)
興行収入: $214,034,224 (321億円)
推定収支: $154,034,224 (231億円)
※製作費・興行収入はTMDBのデータを参照しています。収支は(興行収入 - 製作費)で算出したFindKey独自の推定値であり、広告宣伝費や諸経費は含まれません (1ドル=150円換算)。
監督: ダグ・リーマン
脚本: William Blake Herron / Robert Ludlum / トニー・ギルロイ
音楽: John Powell
制作: パトリック・クローリー / リチャード・N・グラッドスタイン / ダグ・リーマン
撮影監督: Oliver Wood
制作会社: Universal Pictures / Hypnotic / Kalima Productions / Stillking Films / The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Lost count the number of times I've watched The Bourne Identity but it's still a fantastic action-thriller with Matt Damon perfectly cast in the lead which if I recall at the time he was only known for dramas. Some issues with how the sequels were handled, mainly (in TBU) the suggestion Bourne and Nicki (Julia Stiles) had some sort past relationship when it's pretty clear he was just another black ops agent. In any case, still works almost 20 years later and I'm sure I'll revisit this one again. **4.0/5**
**The Bourne Identity returns the spy genre to hard-hitting realism with face-paced hand-to-hand combat, clever espionage, and a great lead.** In the early 2000s, when James Bond was surfing on laser-melted glaciers and fighting diamond-crusted henchmen and Ethan Hunt was dual-weird diving through a flock of doves, The Bourne Identity charted a new path. Doug Liman took Good Will Hunting’s Matt Damon, whose biggest action role to this point had been watching Tom Hanks die to save him in Saving Private Ryan and turn him into a hardcore action hero. But unlike Bond and Mission Impossible, Bourne was a grounded and gritty spy that used skill and ingenuity to overcome the duplicitous intelligence agencies that wanted him dead. The action is more realistic and brutal, with the punches landing harder and pens stabbing deep. The Bourne Identity reinvented the spy genre.
Matt Damon ("Jason Bourne") is fished out off the sea by a passing fishing boat and after having had bullets removed from his back, determines to find out just what happened to him. One slight snag - he has absolutely no idea who he is! Luckily, his rescuer has some skill with a scalpel and aside from the bullets, he removes a small gadget that contains details of a Swiss bank account that ultimately gives him a name, but asks far more questions than it answers. He goes to the US embassy, but that doesn't quite go to plan and in escaping picks up the feisty "Marie" (Franka Potente) and the two have to evade chasing police and would-be assassins as they try to discover the mystery of "Treadstone". It's a gripping, end-to-end spy thriller with short, refined, fight scenes that genuinely engenders suspense and peril. Robert Ludlum's story survives largely intact and Damon, alongside a suitably duplicitous performance from Brian Cox, deliver well.
81/100 After being found floating in the ocean, with two bullet wounds, by a fishing boat, a man wakes up to find he has no memory or identity and his only possession is an account number in a Swiss bank. Arguably the best cat and mouse spy game ever put on film, Matt Damon IS Jason Bourne. I simply can't see anyone else playing this role. If you haven't seen it, I would greatly encourage it ...along with the sequels, which just get better. This is not a ride to be missed. -- DrNostromo.com
