I watched this about 20 yrs ago after reading the book

I discovered this on vhs tape in my old video rental store round about 1993-94 and I never knew a film existed of Ludlum's Bourne Identity.
I had read the book a few months earlier, maybe a year or so, and was gripped from start to finish, it took me about 5 days to read. I remember thinking I'd love to see this made into a film. Then I saw this and liked it, it was very faithful to the book.
Then years later I hear they are making a big screen version of The Bourne Identity and I thinks to myself "ooh interesting, this is a book I love and it deserves a blockbuster film seeing as though Chambelain's Bourne was very low-key/TV movie style,
Anyway I hear Matt Damon is in the lead and I think WHOAH! that's terrible casting. Of all the "hot/ young/ so called heart throb actors" they could think of they chose the very asinine and plain looking Damon.
Damon looked nothing like how Bourne appeared or acted in the book. Although RChamberlain was maybe in his 50s he still had that olde worlde spy/ espionage/ thin/ guile to him and was charismatic, mature and of that era.
Damon looked too much like a sports star, crowd pleasing teenage girl heartthrob.
It was just stupid casting. I'm not a an of Brad Pitt but even he would have been a much better fit for Bourne.
Anyway I watched it and I was right. I didn't ike t. Chambelian's Bourne was much more of an old school spy/ mysterious and European, intelligent and charismatic.







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