Man, watching this again made me remember why they decided to do so many crappy sequels. Now, it's not a great movie. It is an incredibly fun movie, though.
An amnesiac (Matt Damon) gets pulled out of the Mediterranean off the coast of France by a Portugese fishing boat. He doesn't know his name or how he came to be floating along with two bullet holes in his back and a laser that shows the address and account number to a Swiss bank in his hip. But he's determined to find out. Along the way, he discovers a particularly useful skill set that includes languages, basic seamanship, and the ability to punch someone's teeth out through their colon. After discovering the safe deposit box at the bank is full of passports, money, and a gun, he decides to go with the name Jason Bourne and meets Marie (Franka Potente), a frustrated woman trying to get a visa to America, and offers her a trade: $20,000 for a ride to Paris, where one of his passports says he lives. What he doesn't know is that he is actually an elite class of assassin from a CIA-sponsered program called Treadstone. His boss Conklin (Chris Cooper) wants him erased after he spectacularly fucked up his last assignment. To this end, he sends all the Treadstone agents after Bourne. Much ass-kicking ensues.
Seeing the original again also reminded me why they decided to go with a "Science!" explanation in Bourne Legacy. It's literally a throwaway line spoken by a dying character about pills and headaches. I don't remember if they're mentioned ever again but I guess I'll find out when I watch the other two.
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