{"id":6523,"date":"2004-08-20T21:57:31","date_gmt":"2004-08-21T04:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/20\/the-bourne-identity.html"},"modified":"2004-08-20T21:57:31","modified_gmt":"2004-08-21T04:57:31","slug":"the_bourne_iden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/20\/the_bourne_iden.html","title":{"rendered":"The Bourne Identity<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many (many) years ago, I read Ludlum’s novel The Bourne Identity<\/a><\/em>. I enjoyed it, but not quite enough to read the sequels, or others of Ludlum’s works. I didn’t see the movie<\/a> when it came out<\/a>, either, but it was well-recommended, and always on my “Jeez, I’ll have to borrow that from someone” list. <\/p>\n

Well, I did (in exchange for dog-freeing duty). And — well, heck, I’m glad I did. Quite a decent — if sometimes eerily low-key spy\/action\/suspence flick.<\/p>\n

Matt Damon<\/a> is a bit too baby-faced for the role, but he does it well nonetheless, exuding both bewilderment and ruthless earnest in the same breath. There are some nicely humorous bits, and some nicely serious bits, and some decent action, and a bit of emotion, all of it far less in-your-face than the Hollywood genre would normally indicate, and thus all the better for it. If you like spy movies, action movies, conspiracy movies, you’ll almost certainly like this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nothing profound here. It’s a bit frothy, though slick as such. But, what the hell, it beats a lot of other films in its genre. And if I could get a bit of that atmosphere in my IDC<\/a> game, I’d be a happy GM.<\/p>\n

Now I have to go dig the book back up again. And hope that someone I know picks up the sequel movie …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many (many) years ago, I read Ludlum’s novel The Bourne Identity. I enjoyed it, but not quite enough to read the sequels, or others of Ludlum’s works. 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