Bored Supremacy

The Bourne Supremacy might as well have been titled the Bored Supremacey. The Boneman praised it's lack of violence and so forth and that's exactly the problem. There was only one explosion - what the hell kind of summer thriller only has one explosion? And Matt Lame-on was Stone-faced and just as boring. Nowhere near as good as the first.

The Blurry Supremacy

I agree more with the Boneman than the last respondant about the quality of the movie, my complaint though involves the cinetography. I thought they used the hand-held camera way to much to the point as during these exciting scenes you might as well have closed your eyes and just listened to the sound effects for all you could see that was going on. My pun would be that Greengrass turned the film into the Bourne Witch Project.

Jon Gardner

To Jon Gardner

I agree with the Boneman entirely. In fact I would have given it even higher marks. I thought the cinematic style was fantastic, it put the action right in your face - even making it so you felt like you were 'in' the movie. I also liked the gritty greyish blue tone throughout, it reminded me of the tone of Minority Report which if you take away the futuristic angle is a pretty similar movie.

Brad Minton

Alton Nash

I also loved the Bourne Supremacy and in spite of what the reviewer pointed out I was able to follow the story without the benefit of having seen the original. This film provided enough flashbacks and so forth and Bourne's situation was well-enough covered by the CIA people's dialogue. Good show all around and I wouldn't let not having seen the original stop anyone from going to see this one.

The Punman

I realize Bourne is a man with a serous chip on his shoulder and that he's a trained killer. But when you consider the number of times he was beaten, battered, bludgeoned, broken and shot - if there's a sequel he better be in a wheel chair and they better call it the Bourne Infirmary.

Barbara Cooper

Tarantino Blues

The one point that your reviewer made that I found the most compelling was the lack of gratuitous violence. No life was taken in this film - whose character you didn't know and whose death you didn't care about one way or the other. Plus the scene in which he had to defeat his former friend and co-worker - was brilliant. Mainly because there was a refreshing absence of martial arts. These guys just had a fight. Who would have thought that was still possible. Sorry Tarantino, but some of us movie lovers think Martial arts suck.

Dugan

Wow! The Bourne Supremacy definetly outpaces the the Bourne Identity. This film had me wired the rest of the night. I had a hard time eating pasta after seeing it because my mind and body seemed to be moving at a 2x speed. Summer smash for sure.

Adam

Firstly, thank you Boneman for checking this film out while I was at Comic-Con (you more than deserved to see a great film--especially given that you had to sit through Catwoman the night before). I was really bummed that I was unable to see it opening weekend. I was pretty jazzed about checking out the sequel. Happily, I just got back from a screening. The Boneman pretty much nailed everything in his review. I'd like to add that this outing is substantially better than the first. It's faster, tighter, darker, and much more involving. I would agree that a couple of the action sequences are a tad muddled (most notably, a hand on hand combat sequence featuring Jason Bourne and another trained assassin), but for the most part, I was quite riveted by this movie. It's sort of a cross between The Fugitive and Memento. Damon is outstanding and is truly put through the ringer in this installment (both physically and mentally). I was extremely pleased by the unpredictable nature of The Bourne Supremacy. There were several moments that I didn't see coming, and in this day and age of familiar plot twists and such, I was giddy that the movie actually fooled me more than once. The Bourne Identity is much colder and bleaker than standard summer fare, but it's also extremely smart and headed by an expert cast. Damon is first rate, and as the Boneman stated in his review, he perfectly conveys emotion through his eyes. Brian Cox and Joan Allen are fantastic, and watching them get under each other's skin is one of the most fun aspects of the picture. Even the smaller roles that seem irrevelvant, add dimension to the proceedings (particularly a returning Julia Stiles). The car chase sequence in this picture is quite the doozy, and while we are, at times, a little too close in on the action, I perferred this to the car chase in the first film. Director Paul Greengrass (Bloody Sunday) proves to be up to the challenge, and I liked his take on the material more than Doug Liman's. I'm sure there will be those who complain about the hand held camera approach, but I wasn't bothered by it. If anything, it added a kind of intimacy to the movie. After the film was over, it occurred to me that, for the most part, this has been a banner summer for sequels. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Spider-Man 2 were huge steps up from their previous chapters, and so is The Bourne Supremecy. It is rare for sequels to be better than the originals, and this summer we already have three that have done just that (four if you count the beloved Shrek 2). The Bourne Supremacy is an absolute winner. Here's hoping we get Bourne Again in the next couple of years.

Damon Runyon

Oy, the torment that is the cinema of Matt Damon, it is a one of loneliness and rejection. Time and time again the actor has gravitated to roles of outsiders unable or unwanting to cope with assimilation into society proper, and is often burdened with the tragedy of having to kill or sacrifice what he holds dear simply to live another day of pensive alienation. The trend can be traced through a startling amount of his work: an anonymous youth in The Talented Mr. Ripley, he sought to be noticed by stealing the identity of a wealthy American playboy; he played a dejected and down and out WWI veteran in The Legend of Bagger Vance; and even comedic roles show a similar pattern, for example the less confident half of a Siamese twin in Stuck on You and in a Kevin Smith comedy Damon fills the role of a rejected angel, banished from Heaven by God in Dogma. The constantly reprised character type even went so far as to try to find a place in the wilderness in Gus Van Sant's Gerry. Playing a Gen-Xer arbitrarily trying to reconnect with nature Damon finds himself just barely able to survive, and once again having to sacrifice someone close to him, leaving the character not just alone but burdened with knowledge that he is not fit to exist anywhere on this earth.

Pt

Two years earlier Jason Bourne awoke to find himself with no memory of his past and with two bullets lodged in his back. After some extensive research and fleeing from authorities he uncovered that he was an a expert assassin for the CIA and a part of a project known as Treadstone that used these assassins to spread the influence of the government even if at times these assassinations had to be hidden. Along the way he met up with and fell in love with Marie and his desire to lead a normal life with her and put the past behind him led him to the head of Treadstone where he influenced them to leave him alone. Confident he had finally escaped his past he moved to a beach bungalow with Marie and started his life anew. But it appears that the CIA and other agencies aren't through with him yet and he is about to find himself thrown into the midst once more. Bourne who continues to find himself plagued by splintered nightmares from his former life is not going to take this intrusion lightly. When a group of Russian mafia commits a crime and kill two agents in the process they frame Bourne for the crime and the CIA believes he has gone rogue once more. A new Agent on the case Landay begins to delve into the CIA files on Treadstone and is not happy to discover the project nor its clandestine operations nor the fact that it does not seem to have stopped and the real director of the project may still be running the operation without the approval of the CIA.

The first movie was a bastion of how good a pure "popcorn flick" could be, filled with action, amazing fights and one of the best car chases in movie history. The second movie does not miss a beat picking up where the first on left off as it is too an incredibly fast paced movie that keeps you glued to your seat as you find yourself enthralled in the story and all the action. Matt Damon has proven he is a really good actor and the role of Jason Bourne is perfect for him as he just seems to slide into the role so well its hard not believe that he is the amnesia plagued assassin. When he is one the screen he just seems to be able to glue you to your seat with anticipation for what is going to happen next. These movies are wonderfully paced as they mix the action so thoroughly with the drama that they show you what a "popcorn flick" should be. Supremacy easily tops Identity as the action seems quicker paced and you cannot help but fall in love with a story that brings the fight to the doorstep of the enemy. The line "where are you… right next to you" fits the entire feeling of the movie as you feel like you are right in the middle of the action. If you loved Identity or just a good action packed movie this movie will blow you socks off.