As each movie came out in theatres, I made sure to go see them ASAP, and they all rocked! But when I deployed to Iraq my best friend sent me the books. I could not put them down, in any free time I could find my nose was buried in the pages. After the books were complete I got the movies to watch again and wow. My perspective totally changed...for the worse. The movies were not based on the books at all Except the main characters name was Jason Bourne. The movies had incredibly weak plots compared to what the author Robert Ludlum wrote. Even other critical characters were completely left out of the films! If you liked the movies BUY THE BOOKS! If you read the series, do not even rent the DVD's.

Bought this as a gift and suggested it to others because of the great price! I was really impressed with the quality/price comparison. Only problem, I should have bought one for myself!

This is "the" most exciting Trilogy in the history of movies. The heart-pounding, adrenaline rush is consistent through all three. I've seen all three in theaters and found that venue to be the most enjoyable way to see these movies. I own the first two on DVD and still, if I come across it on cable, I can't help, but stop and watch.
Now that Blu-Ray has won the HD war for DVD formats, I'm hoping Universal will re-release these in a Blu-Ray set. That will be the closest to the theater experience you can get; the great musical score, heart-pounding action and subtle dialogue.

AWESOME! I'd already seen them all but just had to get the movies and watch them back to back. The author has great books too and the movie follows them quite well. Great for Matt Damon fans too.

I have seen a lot of spy films. For suspense, mystery, complexity that the viewer must unravel, and that strange quality that allows you to suspend your disbelief, this is undoubtedly the best trilogy of spydom I have ever seen.

You start with Bourne waking with amnesia, struggling to remember who he is, but with his calculating mind and deadly skills wired into his DNA. He is in danger and meets a wonderful girl, who is kind of a lost soul with great potential, that life force that one finds in sudden, true love. She becomes his guide to the search for - or effort to reconstruct - his personality.

Due to politics and a murderous bureaucracy, Bourne functioned as a kind of ultimate assassin. ("I don't send you to kill...I send you to be invisible because you don't exist.") Over the course of 3 films, we learn details of what he was made to be, and how. At the end, we see that he hated what he had become, which in combination with his "conditioning", was the source of his amnesia. It was psychological - wanting to find his earlier identity, which was taken from him in spite of his protests - as much as physical.

His new life, of course, is tragic. This makes it psychologically real, combined with the greatest acting that I have ever been found in a spy series. In my view, Damon is one of the greatest actors alive, and he gives life to this role in a way I have never seen in a spy film. The most interesting things is that each film in the series adds to the others, deepening the themes while offering heart-pounding suspense and sufficient realism and detail to enter the imagination. Yet not everything is explained, so that many of the biggest conclusions lie under the surface.

If I could give this series 6 stars I would. I have watched each film numerous times and am never disappointed - it just gets richer. This is one of the rare films that transcends the book.