Movie Review for The Bourne Supermacy (2004)

Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Starring: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Julia Stiles
Rated: PG-13
Runs: 108 min

A veritable cat and mouse movie, or a hunter gets hunted type. Matt Damon does a good act as Jason Bourne, the man whose appearance in the previous movie brought him from the sea into the unknown world of covert assassinating. Now he's a free man, under a new name in the middle of India when his cover breaks, his fiance Marie dies, and Jason has to make sense of all the confusion that follows him. It's a bit hard, especially since the people who're trying to kill you don't realise that you aren't the person to be killed. And in order to get that difficult point across, Bourne hops to Naples, then to Berlin, and then to Moscow to deal with the men who try to keep him down. It's a quick paced movie, like all action thrillers, but I didn't really have a liking for the jagged home-made movie type of filming. Obviously it tries to bring in the panic, the unknown fear, but then again it interferes with understanding the plot, and so it gets to become more or less a blur of a film, especially in the areas where there's a lot of action. A fitting 3 of 5 for a movie whose protagonist's great acting doesn't get the filming it deserves.

Written on Sunday, September 19 at 7:37 PM