Reply #31: loosely - the character of Jason Bourne

[Flaxbee]

is the same, but the first book had him as a Vietnam vet and was decidedly low-tech (no technology intrigue, if you know what I mean). And the first book revolved around New York, the love interest was an American, etc. The screenwriter just took the premise of the Ludlum book(s) and went off on a tangent, but a good, modern tangent.

The technique didn't bother me, and bouncy cameras usually do. The series so far is The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum... the first two were better than the last one, which had too much action, in my opinion, and not enough still time. But it had great additions to the cast - Albert Finney and David Straithern in addition to Joan Allen... Brian Cox and Chris Cooper were in the other two (though Cooper only as a flashback in the second one).