The Bourne Identity
“He was the perfect weapon until he became the target.”
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?
How The Bourne Identity compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of The Bourne, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 5
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 26%
- Share of the series audience
The Bourne Identity (2002) is the highest-rated of the 5 rated films in The Bourne series, at 7.5/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.0/10.
It is the film that started the series, 14 years before the most recent entry, Jason Bourne (2016).
Its 10,570 TMDB ratings are 26% of the 40,709 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for The Bourne, comparing all 5 released films in the series. Last recalculated November 2026.
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