The Bourne Identity (2002) Review
The Bourne Identity (2002) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Doug Liman fought the studio through a chaotic shoot, put a fight scene in a Paris apartment with a ballpoint pen, and reset what an action film…
Chris Cooper won Best Supporting Actor for Adaptation, playing an orchid thief with missing front teeth and a genuine philosophical position, in a performance he built partly on his own rural background.
American Beauty gave him a repressed marine, and October Sky a mining father, both of which use the same instrument: a man who cannot say what he means.
Lone Star, for John Sayles, is the best lead performance and the least seen.
He is married to Marianne Leone and the two have written about their son Jesse, who had cerebral palsy and died at seventeen.
Adewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeThe Bourne Identity (2002) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Doug Liman fought the studio through a chaotic shoot, put a fight scene in a Paris apartment with a ballpoint pen, and reset what an action film…
Catherine KeenerBennett Miller's 2005 Truman Capote biopic. Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor.
Annette BeningSam Mendes's 1999 suburban satire. Kevin Spacey as a midlife-crisis dad, Annette Bening as the wife.
Chris CooperThe Patriot is a Roland Emmerich film about the American Revolutionary War starring Mel Gibson. He fights a guerrilla war against the British.
Brian CoxThe Bourne series is one of the most influential American action franchises of the past twenty-five years and the production that basically transformed how mainstream action cinema is shot, edited, and choreographed. Two additional Ludlum novels followed.
Ben AffleckBen Affleck's Charlestown Boston heist film. Jeremy Renner Oscar-nominated.
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