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God, what a mistake seeing this was. Not even entertaining. Downright irritating, boring, and senseless. The first three minutes, as the first scene began with the title announcement, was excellent. From there, it was rapidly downhill. Ben Affleck is so earnest, and tries so hard it hurts. Zero charisma, zero gravitas. Liam Neeson should be playing the role, or if he's too old, perhaps Edward Norton. Anyone but Ben. I should have followed the advice of a poster several weeks ago: run when you see Ben in the credits. Repeat: this movie doesn't even make it to tv movie quality: BEWARE.
The only good thing, in fact: Morgan Freeman. He brings a lot of class to any picture.
Frought with inconcievable plot and story flaws for a movie of this supposed technical caliber. When one considers the technical accuracy of Clancy's novels, this was really a major flaw. All this was compounded by the change to PC neo-nazi villians instead of Clancy's original Islamists. And I can't remember a movie that was more poorly cast. Affleck has zero screen gravitas. Clancy's story line was hardly hinted at. Its one thing to take screenplay liberties with a novel; this movie was more of a rape. This was far far below the quality of previous Clancy stories brought to the screen. If you must see it, wait for the 99 cent rental.
Ben's sidekick, Matt Damon, is starring in a similar type movie, opening soon. I forgot the name but saw a trailer yesterday on tv. Matt may play many characters successfully in his career, but action hero he ain't. Same for Boston Ben A. Earnest young men both of them: urban white professionals. Hit men, spies, great lovers, etc.---no.
Can't resist another Matt D comment: anything more pathetic than seeing him as the love interest of Penelope Cruz (whatever was the name of that dumb oater?) About as believable as she and Nick "Ok. where'd I put my hairpiece?"Cage...
"The Bourne Identity" from Robert Ludlum's book of the same name. Matt Damon seems horribly miscast in the role, but maybe he'll prove me wrong.
the New Yorker mag in this week's issue's review states how miscast poor Matt is. He just doesn't look like a spy, and in film, looks are everything. I mean, who's going to be the next James Bond...Jude Law???
Jude Law?Actually I think he would play a half-decent James Bond. If you've seen A.I., he definitely has the charisma. Except, I think he's Australian and would have to work on a Connery-ish accent.
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