A well-made series with high production values, prestigious locations and good performances. Considerable effort is made in order to explain and recapitulate the story, which is a good idea since the story is quite complicated. As a result the viewer is able to enjoy the many plot twists without getting lost. There is a nicely maintained sense of ambiguity, doubt and suspicion. The ending is pretty spectacular, too, with a grand gunfight.
I would have liked to go higher than 7 stars, but I'm afraid that I found the love scene between Bourne and his beloved silly and cheesy beyond belief. (That music !) Well, "cheesy" may be an understatement - I found myself thinking of a king-sized luxury cheese board with French, Dutch, Belgian and English cheeses made from cow milk, sheep milk and goat milk, with five kinds of dark bread, with figs, with pickles and with walnuts...
Still, I liked this mini-series better than the later remakes with Matt Damon.
Some of the themes treated in the mini-series, such as plastic surgery and amnesia, lend themselves very well to the spy genre. If you're looking for a good spy movie containing both of these themes, and if you're not afraid of the occasional science-fictional accent, you can do worse than watch "The Groundstar Conspiracy", about the aftermath of an explosion in a top-secret research station.
I would have liked to go higher than 7 stars, but I'm afraid that I found the love scene between Bourne and his beloved silly and cheesy beyond belief. (That music !) Well, "cheesy" may be an understatement - I found myself thinking of a king-sized luxury cheese board with French, Dutch, Belgian and English cheeses made from cow milk, sheep milk and goat milk, with five kinds of dark bread, with figs, with pickles and with walnuts...
Still, I liked this mini-series better than the later remakes with Matt Damon.
Some of the themes treated in the mini-series, such as plastic surgery and amnesia, lend themselves very well to the spy genre. If you're looking for a good spy movie containing both of these themes, and if you're not afraid of the occasional science-fictional accent, you can do worse than watch "The Groundstar Conspiracy", about the aftermath of an explosion in a top-secret research station.