The Bourne Identity (2002 film)

The Bourne Identity is a 2002 AmericanGerman action spy thriller film adaptation of Robert Ludlums novel of the same name. It stars Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, a man suffering from extreme memory loss and attempting to discover his true identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the Central Intelligence Agency CIA. The film also features Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Julia Stiles, Brian Cox and Adewale AkinnuoyeAgbaje. This, the first in the Bourne film series, is followed by The Bourne Supremacy 2004, The Bourne Ultimatum 2007, The Bourne Legacy 2012 and a fifth film scheduled for release in 2016.

In the Mediterranean Sea, Italian fishermen rescue an unconscious American man Matt Damon floating adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. They tend to his wounds, and when the man wakes, they find he suffers from dissociative amnesia he has no idea of his identity but is aware of advanced combat skills and fluent in several languages. The skipper finds a tiny laser projector under the mans skin that, when activated, gives a number of a safe deposit box in Zrich. Upon landing, the man heads to investigate the box. Arriving at the bank, the man finds the box contains a large sum of money in various currencies, numerous passports and identity cards, and a handgun the man takes everything but the gun, and leaves, opting to use the name on the American passport, Jason Bourne.A bank employee contacts Operation Treadstone, a CIA black operation program after Bournes departure. Treadstones head, Alexander Conklin Chris Cooper, contacts CIA Deputy Director Ward Abbott Brian Cox about the reappearance of Bourne. Abbott warns that Bourne, a CIA agent, had been assigned the silent assassination of exiled African dictator Nykwana Wombosi Adewale AkinnuoyeAgbaje, but the attempt failed, and Bourne must be dealt with. Conklin activates three agents to take down Bourne Castel Nicky Naude, Manheim Russell Levy, and the Professor Clive Owen, while also issuing alerts to local police to capture Bourne. ........

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