The Bourne Identity
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for? From TMDB
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60 of 199 · most liked firstICYMI, Richard Chamberlain played Jason Bourne in the 1988 movie ‘The Bourne Identity’ www.bbc.com/news/article...
unlabelledView post →THE BOURNE IDENTITY was released 24 years ago today. A reinvention of the spy genre and the film that launched Matt Damon as an action star, the behind the scenes story might have your doubting your identity… 1/34
unlabelledView post →THE BOURNE IDENTITY was released 23 years ago today. A reinvention of the spy genre and the film that launched Matt Damon as an action star, the behind the scenes story might have your doubting your identity… 1/34
unlabelledView post →okay we are all tired of the debate over whether "Die Hard" is a Christmas movie. But have you considered "The Bourne Identity"? Jason Bourne is a Christlike figure who is resurrected and must atone for his sinful past. Also: There is a Christmas tree.
unlabelledView post →THE BOURNE IDENTITY | EPISODE OUT NOW The film that tore up the spy movie and made everyone start again. We tell the full story behind Liman's classic, with big opinions and big laughs. On all platforms. www.alltherightmovies.com/podcast/the-...
unlabelledView post →We appreciate Michael trying to get movie discussions going on this site, and must say, people sleep on just how good Matt Damon is in The Bourne Identity. That role is close to disastrous - or boringly impersonal - on paper; it only works because of his skill with playing confusion and desperation
unlabelledView post →Books to film 📚=🎞️ The Bourne Identity (1980) by Robert Ludlum was adapted to film (2002) by Doug Liman. The novel is a Cold War espionage centered on Carlos the Jackal whereas the film shifts to a CIA assassin program. The film becomes a critique of authority & deep state. 🕵️♂️🚗💨 #filmsky #booksky
unlabelledView post →Every year on New Year’s Day, I do an action movie marathon. This year it’s the Bourne movies, starting with 2002’s THE BOURNE IDENTITY. I remember being so excited to see Franka Potente in a major Hollywood film!
unlabelledView post →The Bourne Identity is a good movie I think! But its sequels, Supremacy and Ultimatum, popularized shaky-cam action scenes. For this crime, I condemn it into the fires of Mount Hollydoom 😔
unlabelledView post →Here to remind you all that The Bourne Identity is a Christmas film even if no one actually mentions that. (Trying to move the discourse on from Die Hard which, duh, is a Christmas film too.)
unlabelledView post →RIP to the 'King of the 1980's mini-series,' Richard Chamberlain. Pictured below, images from Shogun, The Bourne Identity (way more faithful to the book than Damon's movie), and The Thorn Birds. www.npr.org/2025/03/30/g...
unlabelledView post →The Bourne Identity |2002 www.imdb.com/title/tt0258... #NowWatching #filmsky ·a man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory·
unlabelledView post →We are going to do a Clive Owens film festival. - Gosford Park - The Bourne Identity - Inside Man - Children of Men - Duplicity - That episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm
unlabelledView post →The Bourne Identity was a really good movie Watching it 22 years later and it still holds up
unlabelledView post →Mid movies with an interesting premise. That's the point of OP's post. Scarface, Omega Man, The Bird Cage, Thomas Crown Affair, Ocean's 11, Fist Full of Dollars, Vanilla Sky, Wizard of Oz, The Bourne Identity: all remakes. Arguably, the new Dune movies might be considered remakes of a relatively mid original movie, though the new ones are far more tied to the book. So taking the 1993 mid kids' movie *Rookie of the Year* and adapting it to a modem take where the lead is 19 and plays soccer for…
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched 1990 The Bronx Warriors (like the stiffly acted lovechild of The Warriors and Temu) The Bourne Identity (mandatory MATTDAMON!.gif baby face) Chopping Mall (crap and fun. It's fun crap. On a budget) Terror Train (Jamie Lee so dreamy)
unlabelledView post →Offhand I can only think of one movie (and sequels) where “didn’t read the book” made the movie significantly better: *The Bourne Identity*. Those books really were awful!
unlabelledView post →re-watching The Bourne Identity - this film and its sequels are really the best action hero movies of recent times, slight diminishing returns as it went on but not much really and no capes or pretentious Bond rubbish :)
unlabelledView post →I’ve been wanting to rewatch The Bourne Identity for a few months now, and boy that movie fucking rips. Simultaneous “They don’t make em like this anymore.” and “Oh no this ruined movies (for a while)”
unlabelledView post →reading the Bourne Identity and my hat is absolutely off to the people who made a cool fun movie out of this. you’re the real heroes.
unlabelledView post →just watching the Bourne Identity again, fun action movie, and bloody hell - Walton Goggins before he became Walton Goggins - I love these little moments..
unlabelledView post →You really should mentally prepare yourself for a deluxe nothingburger with cheese. There's a very, very good chance that the years of classification are entirely related to intelligence collection methods, specifically humint, that are basic techniques that remain in place today. And which will seem like nothing because so much had been leaked or dramatized, that these are not real secrets anymore for the average person who has seen a movie like the Bourne Identity. I'll bet you $5 that the…
unlabelledView post →What are your favourite movie adaptations of books or plays? One movie per day for 5 days. Day 5 - The Bourne Identity #FilmSky #MovieSky #booktofilm #Movies🎬 #BookSky 💙📚
unlabelledView post →The Bourne Identity (2002) is the last 90s action movie because it was finished before 9/11 and features just about every single actor you can name
unlabelledView post →I tried reading the Bourne Identity because I liked the movie and that book is SO casually racist (written in 1979) I gave up. Also a whole unnecessary rape plot. The movie improved the plot of the book a lot.
unlabelledView post →I watched 225 movies in 2025. Here's my rating and two* sentences on each with my thoughts (Part 3: R-Y). I watch a lot of movies, I don’t necessarily have a yearly goal however I like keeping a record, so here is what I watched with some thoughts Link to [Part 1 (2025 movies)](https://lemmy.world/post/41059248) Link to [Part 2 (A-P)](https://lemmy.world/post/41111242) - My rating scale is .5-5, and my review philosophy is “how well does the movie succeed at what it is trying to do?” - Thus…
unlabelledView post →I haven't seen Lethal Weapon in years, but The Bourne Identity and Ronin are just movies that take place in late December while Die Hard and Gremlins both confront the idea of the events being set During Christmas in both music and mood. That's why no one thinks The Thin Man is a Christmas movie.
unlabelledView post →I mean, ROBOCOP is the best Judge Dredd movie, but I'd also argue that THE BOURNE IDENTITY is a pretty good Wolverine movie if you squint.
unlabelledView post →Do you say that too whenever a movie goes to film in Paris ? « Oh no ! Mission Impossible 6 is reeking of corporate desperation by sharing locations with The Bourne Identity ! »
unlabelledView post →Similarly, whereas the next Mission Impossible film involves stealing top secret files from a golf club toilet, the Bourne Identity reboot starts with the hero's lost memories being triggered by someone accidentally sending him invasion plans on whatsapp.
unlabelledView post →Maybe if this were, like, 2020-ish, you could make it a parody of the modern dark & gritty action thriller kind of spy movie (see: The Bourne Identity, Craig-era Bond, et al.) but tbh that kind of movie has lost most of its cultural dominance as well. There's just nothing to parody right now.
unlabelledView post →I watched a youtube a while back that posited a version of the Bourne Identity where we see the whole thing from Jason's perspective only, learning things as he learns them, going on that journey with him. And it honestly feels like the version of the movie that should have been, but never was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdcSFsQRsnc
unlabelledView post →Best secret Wolverine movie: THE BOURNE IDENTITY. Best secret Superman movie: THE HUDSUCKER PROXY.
unlabelledView post →The Good Shepherd (spies are not immune to neuroses!) Sicario (the second movie about why doing a Sicario is bad) The Bourne Identity (dudes in a room with maps and yelling) Body of Lies (don’t trust management) Mission: Impossible (CI is galaxy brain nonsense at the end of the day)
unlabelledView post →Liman wanted to set a better example in The Bourne Identity than his big hit Swingers, so he banned smoking from the film. No characters smoke on screen at any point. Whereas characters smoke near-constantly in Swingers. 22/34
unlabelledView post →Insert a movie into another movie: THE BOURNE IDENTITY THIEF
unlabelledView post →Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 12 #booksky #books #BookChallenge #TheBourneIdentity #RobertLudlum And NO - it is NOTHING like the movie.
unlabelledView post →Time to watch yet another amnesiac uncovering their assassin past movie that predates The Bourne Identity! Yes, I am aware of the miniseries, please don't well actually me on this.............
unlabelledView post →Everything that happened after the end of the Bourne Identity was just a dream, the new movie starts with him waking up next to Franka Potente in their cozy seaside apartment overlooking the dive shop they've been running for the last 23 years. He goes to therapy.
unlabelledView post →Liman wanted to set a better example in The Bourne Identity than his big hit Swingers, so he banned smoking from the film. No characters smoke on screen at any point. Whereas characters smoke near-constantly in Swingers. 22/34
unlabelledView post →In 1983, Universal planned for their next big movie to be an adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Identity. They wanted Burt Reynolds as Bourne and Jack Clayton to direct. Reynolds schedule was so busy that the idea never got off the ground. 2/34
unlabelledView post →Richard Chamberlain was called the King of the TV Movie. SHOGUN and THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO and THE BOURNE IDENTITY are all worth seeking out.
unlabelledView post →The Bourne Identity movie > book
unlabelledView post →In 1996, indie director Doug Liman had a huge hit with Swingers. He’d read The Bourne Identity in high school and loved it. When Universal asked what film he wanted to make next, he said he wanted to adapt Ludlum’s novel. 4/34
unlabelledView post →My introduction via book, film, music and TV. Book: Fatherland by Robert Harris Film: The Bourne Identity Album: Queen Greatest Hits TV show: Edge of Darkness (original BBC series)
unlabelledView post →In 1996, indie director Doug Liman had a huge hit with Swingers. He’d read The Bourne Identity in high school and loved it. When Universal asked what film he wanted to make next, he said he wanted to adapt Ludlum’s novel. 4/34
unlabelledView post →In 1983, Universal planned for their next big movie to be an adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Identity. They wanted Burt Reynolds as Bourne and Jack Clayton to direct. Reynolds schedule was so busy that the idea never got off the ground. 2/34
unlabelledView post →Reminds me of when I read the Bourne Identity. The movie makes it sound like it's about a secret government superspy project. The books makes it clear: it's about oil.
unlabelledView post →what's your favorite "car movie" (movie with at least one banger car chase/scene). I think mine might be the paris car chase in the Bourne Identity
unlabelledView post →The Bourne Identity is a Christmas movie.
unlabelledView post →Craig was after The Bourne Identity and it's many sequels. I think that's the key difference. Maybe Craig sells the brutality a little better than Dalton. Got more physicality to him. And if you don't count Quantum of Solace, he also had *much* better movies. Dalton just felt like the Andrew Garfield of Bonds. Let down by the movies not really knowing what they wanted to be, rather than his performance. He's superb in Hot Fuzz, to the point I now think of him as a local supermarché owner than…
unlabelledView post →What’s a movie that you personally feel was better than the book? For me, these ones come to mind- The Bourne Identity The Devil Wears Prada 2 Tell No One 📚🎥🩷 #BookSky #movies
unlabelledView post →How am I just now finding out that The Bourne Identity is a Christmas Movie!! Forget Die Hard!
unlabelledView post →My top movie genres (might go longer than 5). 1. Retreat, Regroup, Attack. You find this in the Bourne Identity and Mad Max Fury Road.
unlabelledView post →Extreme Ways - Moby (The Bourne Identity) What a great song to end the movie You quit on a high note.You really want more... You want to learn martial arts coming out of the theater. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zolX...
unlabelledView post →I blame The Bourne Identity--a brilliant film, and Liman was trying to break away from the crisp, almost sterile combat of Bond films, but too many people went with his style rather than the purpose. Plus I suspect it's a lot easier/cheaper to shoot and cut a blurry, confusing fight scene.
unlabelledView post →There’s a lovely insight into the times to be gained from who thought “this is fucked.” They almost pulled The Bourne Identity from the scheduled release, because of a conviction nobody would want an escapist spy film.
unlabelledView post →#SummerOfStories 16 I like to compare #MasterWatch to 'The fugitive', but I struggle with the slow tension over longer periods that made that movie great, so I guess I could compare it to 'The Bourne Identity', but without the main character having special skills. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
unlabelledView post →The Bourne Identity movie is what the Jack Ryan / Amazon shows / movies want to be. But they're not.
unlabelledView post →Apparently my mom doesn't remember ever seeing the movie Ratatouille but she remembers seeing The Bourne Identity (which is insane cause she doesnt exactly like "boy movies")
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