The movie Taken (2008) follows Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), a retired CIA operative who must use his lethal skills to rescue his teenage daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), after she is kidnapped by human traffickers while on vacation in Paris.
The Bourne Identity follows the story of Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), a man pulled from the Mediterranean Sea by a fishing boat, barely alive with two bullet wounds in his back. Upon waking up, he suffers from profound amnesia, having absolutely no memory of his name, his past, or how he ended up in the ocean. His only clue is a Swiss bank account number surgically implanted in his hip.Unlocking the MysteryWhen he visits the bank in Zurich, he discovers a safe-deposit box filled with vast amounts of international cash, multiple fake passports with his photo, and a handgun.He quickly realizes he possesses extraordinary skills in hand-to-hand combat, advanced linguistics, and military tactics, though he has no idea how he acquired them.Adopting the identity of "Jason Bourne" from his American passport, he hires a civilian woman named Marie (Franka Potente) to drive him to Paris to trace his history.Hunted by the CIAMeanwhile, at CIA headquarters in Langley, officials panic upon learning that Bourne is alive.It is revealed that Bourne is actually an elite assassin belonging to a black-ops program known as Operation Treadstone.Because Bourne failed his last mission to eliminate an African dictator, the supervisor of Treadstone activates other highly trained assassins to eliminate him. Bourne must now use his lethal instincts to survive and uncover the dark truth about who he really is.
