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The Bourne Supremacy
2004
Matt Damon returns as amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne in this fast-paced follow-up to 2002's THE BOURNE IDENTITY. Forced out of hiding as the result of an attempt on his life, Bourne fulfills his earlier promise to wreak vengeance on his former CIA employers, some of whom may be in league with murderous Russians. Brian Cox and .. Read more
| Starring | Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban |
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| Director | Paul Greengrass |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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British film-maker Paul Greengrass (Bloody Sunday) takes over the directing duties from Doug Liman for this sequel to The Bourne Identity and manages the rare feat of improving on the original. Two years after ex-CIA operative Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) apparently escaped the attentions of his spymasters, a corrupt Russian businessman frames him for a double assassination, which drags Bourne back into the murky world of international espionage. Greengrass uses his drama documentary background to good effect, delivering consistently exciting action without ever pushing the bounds of credibility. As Bourne, Damon continues to impress in a role that goes against his wholesome, all-American image — moving slickly and almost silently through the film like a small, angry black hole. The James Bond producers should take note as Bourne may well be the future of spy thrillers.
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Efficient thriller that does not stray far from the conventions of the genre, from disposable girlfriend to implausible car chase, but is always watchable, despite its confusing, strobe-like editing at moments of excitement.
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Two years ago, in The Bourne Identity, black-ops CIA assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) was pulled from the... read more on Time Out
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Most helpful members' reviews (3)
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50 out of 54 people found this review helpful
Great to see an action movie without SFX!
Not as good as the first one, but still an exciting, gritty thriller. The new director seems to be striving to put the viewer right in the centre of the action - including one of the loudest car chases you'll ever see. Just like being in the cars with them! However, the close-ups and blurriness of the action is sometimes a little too documentary - exciting, but occasionally confusing.
Matt Damon still looks like a Cabbage Patch Kid, but is excellent as Jason Bourne, a much more believable action hero than James Bond - this guy really bleeds! All the main cast from the first film returns, along with the excellent Joan Allen as the CIA Agent charged with tracking Bourne down.
An exciting, twisty-turny thriller... though it struggles to maintain the tension in the final half hour. -
24 out of 29 people found this review helpful
Bourne Again!!
The title has nothing to do with the film, i just thought it would sound cool!! This sequel keeps in much the same vein as the first, good old fashioned spy thriller. This film (and the first) both have great direction though - it is this, that sets them apart. Both worth watching, especially if you like the genre.
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23 out of 32 people found this review helpful
Bourne to Run
Something of a sleeper hit, The Bourne Identity became notable for confounding its mixed critical reception and gaining a cult audience through DVD rental and sales. This profitable return and positive word-of-mouth led Universal to swiftly extend the franchise with this follow up, The Bourne Supremacy. ?Identity? is still playing on satellite television and the extended DVD has only just been released. It?s ?The Lord of the Rings? marketing strategy, roll out successive franchise editions and DVD versions within a short timeframe, to maximize public awareness of the product. Sometimes, as with ?The Matrix Revolutions?, the quality of the film suffers greatly, but in the case of ?The Bourne Supremacy?, this is not entirely the case.
Two years have passed since we last saw Jason Bourne; he still gets nightmares and he?s still trying to piece together the wreckage of his life. But people are still after Bourne, most notable trained assassin, Kirill (Karl Urban) and CIA boss Pamela Landy, played by Joan Allen. Landy assembles the team that tracked Bourne in the previous film and what ensues is a series of murders, double-crossings and chases around Europe.
The movie is certainly different from ?Identity? in a number of ways: it lacks the irony, clarity, and central narrative enigma that drove the story so well. More importantly it lacks the deft touch of director Doug Liman whose off-kilter take on the espionage thriller was so refreshing. This time around Liman produces and enlists British director Paul Greengrass to helm. Liman?s father had worked for the CIA, which gave him an insider?s view on secret service organizations. Greengrass has a background in making political thrillers such as Resurrected and Bloody Sunday, and one of the most controversial aspects of both films is that they portray the U.S. secret service as essentially corrupt and unaccountable.
One of the elements that made ?Idenity? such a success was the high class cast assembled and Brian Cox and Julia Stiles return with Matt Damon. Even though Jason Bourne is a trained killer, Matt Damon and writer Tony Gilroy manage to invest him with enough dignity and humanity to have the audience rooting for him throughout ? rather than the American authorities.
Perhaps the only sense of irony here is that The Bourne Supremacy isn?t superior to The Bourne Identity, but that still makes it a very engrossing and at times exciting thriller. -
Most recent members' reviews (2)
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10 out of 13 people found this review helpful
As good as 1st
I am not going to bore you with how well directed this is, what the actors have been in before etc etc. This is just a great film to just sit and watch. The chases make you feel is if you are there. The story line is believable and if you watch the film with your other half it is not complicated and you wont get somebody saying 'whats going on' etc. The only thing I would say is to watch the 1st film before seeing this one.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Fantastic
Films like this are the ones you will watch time and again, brilliantly acted, great action, possibly the best car chase you'll find in a film (check out the extras to see the bit of kit they needed to make it!). Also, filmed from a perspective that draws you into the film and makes it that much more of an experience as supposed to just entertainment. Think it was voted by Empire as film of the year 2004 as well, can't really argue with them having seen it. Wicked.
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50 out of 54 people found this review helpful
Great to see an action movie without SFX!
Not as good as the first one, but still an exciting, gritty thriller. The new director seems to be striving to put the viewer right in the centre of the action - including one of the loudest car chases you'll ever see. Just like being in the cars with them! However, the close-ups and blurriness of the action is sometimes a little too documentary - exciting, but occasionally confusing.
Matt Damon still looks like a Cabbage Patch Kid, but is excellent as Jason Bourne, a much more believable action hero than James Bond - this guy really bleeds! All the main cast from the first film returns, along with the excellent Joan Allen as the CIA Agent charged with tracking Bourne down.
An exciting, twisty-turny thriller... though it struggles to maintain the tension in the final half hour. -
24 out of 29 people found this review helpful
Bourne Again!!
The title has nothing to do with the film, i just thought it would sound cool!! This sequel keeps in much the same vein as the first, good old fashioned spy thriller. This film (and the first) both have great direction though - it is this, that sets them apart. Both worth watching, especially if you like the genre.
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23 out of 32 people found this review helpful
Bourne to Run
Something of a sleeper hit, The Bourne Identity became notable for confounding its mixed critical reception and gaining a cult audience through DVD rental and sales. This profitable return and positive word-of-mouth led Universal to swiftly extend the franchise with this follow up, The Bourne Supremacy. ?Identity? is still playing on satellite television and the extended DVD has only just been released. It?s ?The Lord of the Rings? marketing strategy, roll out successive franchise editions and DVD versions within a short timeframe, to maximize public awareness of the product. Sometimes, as with ?The Matrix Revolutions?, the quality of the film suffers greatly, but in the case of ?The Bourne Supremacy?, this is not entirely the case.
Two years have passed since we last saw Jason Bourne; he still gets nightmares and he?s still trying to piece together the wreckage of his life. But people are still after Bourne, most notable trained assassin, Kirill (Karl Urban) and CIA boss Pamela Landy, played by Joan Allen. Landy assembles the team that tracked Bourne in the previous film and what ensues is a series of murders, double-crossings and chases around Europe.
The movie is certainly different from ?Identity? in a number of ways: it lacks the irony, clarity, and central narrative enigma that drove the story so well. More importantly it lacks the deft touch of director Doug Liman whose off-kilter take on the espionage thriller was so refreshing. This time around Liman produces and enlists British director Paul Greengrass to helm. Liman?s father had worked for the CIA, which gave him an insider?s view on secret service organizations. Greengrass has a background in making political thrillers such as Resurrected and Bloody Sunday, and one of the most controversial aspects of both films is that they portray the U.S. secret service as essentially corrupt and unaccountable.
One of the elements that made ?Idenity? such a success was the high class cast assembled and Brian Cox and Julia Stiles return with Matt Damon. Even though Jason Bourne is a trained killer, Matt Damon and writer Tony Gilroy manage to invest him with enough dignity and humanity to have the audience rooting for him throughout ? rather than the American authorities.
Perhaps the only sense of irony here is that The Bourne Supremacy isn?t superior to The Bourne Identity, but that still makes it a very engrossing and at times exciting thriller. -
15 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Better than the original?
The first question anyone asks of a sequel is "Is it better than the original?" And the answer for The Bourne Supremacy is.. (drumroll) .... Kinda. Some of it is better, some of it is worse. The better aspect is the acting, script and story. Now, normally for a sequel they are good things, however, the direction of Paul Greengrass is so shockingly nauseating that it renders everything else pointless. Who cares that Damon does his own fighting when it is out of frame due to the hideously close up off kilter hand held style? You can't see anything, in some films this is appropriate. 'Blair Witch Project' obviously springs to mind but this is an action film where you cannot see the action, maybe that doesn't bother you but it bothers me.
The fact that I still like this film is a testament to the fantastic cast, Damon especially but I was also glad that Brian Cox was pushed to the front and as ever proves why he is one of the better actors of his generation. So yes, in many ways and with a competent director this would be one of the rare "better than the first" movies, I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of Paul Greengrass for the reason it isn't. It is just "kinda" -
13 out of 15 people found this review helpful
Fantastic
Now and again a film comes along that makes you sit up and pay attention, this is one of them, brilliant thriller and as someone said, the way Bond should be!
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10 out of 13 people found this review helpful
As good as 1st
I am not going to bore you with how well directed this is, what the actors have been in before etc etc. This is just a great film to just sit and watch. The chases make you feel is if you are there. The story line is believable and if you watch the film with your other half it is not complicated and you wont get somebody saying 'whats going on' etc. The only thing I would say is to watch the 1st film before seeing this one.
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10 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Annoyed
The camera work should be questioned.
I was frustrated to tears by the way this film has been shot. On a big screen it is nauseating. Every bit of action means the camera is violently shaken, the fight scenes and car chases are obliterated.
I enjoy a well choreographed fight scene. I do not know if this movie had one.
An enjoyable plot completely spoiled for me by exceptionally poor camera work. -
7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
brilliant!!!
after recently watching the 'Supremacy' on rental (after having seen the 1st at the cinema) i was reading over sone of the reviews on this site. i'm afraid, though, i completely disagree with most of what people are saying!
this film is FAR better than the original. the orignal was gd but this is excellant. the action scenes are incredibly fast paced, the plot has many twists and turns (yet is still understandable) and it kept me on the edge of my seat the whole way through. absolutely gripping! u won't be disappointed! xxx -
7 out of 9 people found this review helpful
james bond take note!
the producers of the bond films should take a good long hard look at this and LEARN!!
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Good film, but dont play on a PC
Well the previous reviews pretty much summed up the film for me, a top class action movie, unfortunately I'm just going to write a word of warning for those that watch DVDs via their PC's.
This disk comes with the Interactual DVD player malware which will autorun and prompt you to install this software when you put in the DVD. Even if you click no to the install, this program will install files on your PC without any uninstaller, add programs to run automatically at machine startup and schedule one to check online every so often to look for updates. If you are not fond of programs which arn't straightforward to remove installing themselves on your PC without your say so, adding to the glut of things that slow startup times and steal processor cycles make sure you have autorun set to off...
Great film, but as Im rating the whole disk it has to be 1 star for the unsolicited installations on PCs.
Critics' reviews (3)
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British film-maker Paul Greengrass (Bloody Sunday) takes over the directing duties from Doug Liman for this sequel to The Bourne Identity and manages the rare feat of improving on the original. Two years after ex-CIA operative Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) apparently escaped the attentions of his spymasters, a corrupt Russian businessman frames him for a double assassination, which drags Bourne back into the murky world of international espionage. Greengrass uses his drama documentary background to good effect, delivering consistently exciting action without ever pushing the bounds of credibility. As Bourne, Damon continues to impress in a role that goes against his wholesome, all-American image — moving slickly and almost silently through the film like a small, angry black hole. The James Bond producers should take note as Bourne may well be the future of spy thrillers.
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Efficient thriller that does not stray far from the conventions of the genre, from disposable girlfriend to implausible car chase, but is always watchable, despite its confusing, strobe-like editing at moments of excitement.
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Two years ago, in The Bourne Identity, black-ops CIA assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) was pulled from the... read more on Time Out
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Matt Damon returns as amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne in this fast-paced follow-up to 2002's THE BOURNE IDENTITY. Forced out of hiding as the result of an attempt on his life, Bourne fulfills his earlier promise to wreak vengeance on his former CIA employers, some of whom may be in league with ...
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