The Bourne Identity

Adam Čapek

The Bourne Identity is a spectacular movie. It's about an agent, who suffers from memory loss. I've been told it's amnesia. And he wants to recall his old memories and he wants to finally know who he actually is. It starts like this: One stormy night, an Italian fishing boat catches a half-dead man from the sea. He has bullets and a label with a number of bank account under the skin on his back. When he wakes up he finds out that he suffers from a total memory loss. He doesn't even know his own name. He gradually discovers that he controls martial arts and he can handle any weapon. He went to the capital city of Switzerland to discover what was in that bank safe. Then he found out that he is named Jason Bourne. Though he still knows almost nothing about himself, he soon realizes that people who know him want to kill him.

I love this movie because of those incredibly realistic and well-captured fight scenes, especially that one when the enemy agent broke into Bourne's flat in Paris and the main character annihilated him. I think that Matt Damon is the perfect actor for the role of killer agent. There were also some scenes captured in streets of Prague, which in this case represented the city center of Bern, capital of Switzerland. From the position of a photographer I like the scene where the blue painted tram drove around. That shot has pretty good composition. So seek for that scene.

I think that director Doug Liman did not create a classic action film but very good work thanks to his knowledge about real agents. After seeing this shot I am convinced that you will want to see a sequel. There are 4 sequels, so you will not be sad that the story ends soon.