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DVD The Bourne Supremacy (Full Screen Edition)
Good enough to suggest long-term franchise potential, The Bourne Supremacy is a thriller fans will appreciate for its well-crafted suspense, and for its triumph of competence over logic (or lack thereof). Picking up where The Bourne Identity left off, the action begins when CIA assassin and partial amnesiac Jason Bourne (a role reprised with efficient intensity by Matt Damon) is framed for a murder in Berlin, setting off a chain reaction of pursuits involving CIA handlers (led by Joan Allen and the duplicitous Brian Cox, with Julia Stiles returning from the previous film) and a shadowy Russian oil magnate. The fast-paced action hurtles from India to Berlin, Moscow, and Italy, and as he did with the critically acclaimed Bloody Sunday, director Paul Greengrass puts you right in the thick of it with split-second editing (too much of it, actually) and a knack for well-sustained tension. It doesn't all make sense, and bears little resemblance to Robert Ludlum's novel, but with Damon proving to be an appealingly unconventional action hero, there's plenty to look forward to. --Jeff Shannon
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Bourne Supremacy
Matt Damon returns to the screen as Jason Bourne, an amnesiac CIA assassin who can still remember how to kick your ass even if you have a semi-automatic weapon and he doesn't, and who somehow hasn't forgotten how to drive five-foot-wide vehicles really fast down three-foot-wide alleys.
This episode opens with very a cool chase scene through a resort town on the coast of India. Thirty-something Jason, accompanied by frightened Euro-trash girlfriend Maria (the sometimes hot-sometimes not Franka Potente) drives his jeep off a bridge to escape from a Russian mercenary killer, and survives by holding his breath underwater for about an hour. Maria's not so lucky, and fails to respond to Jason's selfless mouth-to-mouth attempts to save her life with his three or four remaining air molecules. For most guys that kind of loss would be a major setback, but amnesia does have its upside ("Maria who?"). Hitting the road again, Bourne follows a trail of death and duplicity to Naples, Berlin, and Moscow, just one of which, it appears to this American stay-at-home, might be worth visiting, while the other two would not, not even for an overnight quickie with Cameron Diaz. In Berlin (which in this movie's rendering would take a week's supply of zoloft just to get to merely depressing) Jason plays a neat game of cat-and-mouse with a half-dozen CIA and Justice biggies who are out to shut him up, for reasons that may cause you to want to bring out the Roget's and look up "contrived" or maybe "insipid". Joan Allen as a steamy over-forty blonde Section Head will not remind you in any way of Janet Reno, trust me, but she won't remind you of Albert Einstein either, if you know what I mean. Here's an example: with about three thousand of her agents looking for Bourne, he is able to evade them by checking into the biggest hotel in Germany under the alias "Jason Dourne". OK, I made that up, but it's not far off.
When Bourne finally discovers (or rediscovers) the truth about his own role in a years-ago assassination attempt gone awry, he heads to Moscow to deliver the absolute ballsiest apology in movie history. Like the decent guy he is, Bourne doesn't even attempt to fall back on the Steve Martin "I forgot" defense, which of course would have been very believable under the circumstances. I'm not telling you any more about this, except to say that the Russian babe from whom he begs forgiveness makes Anna Kournikova look like Lyle Lovett.
Just as in The Bourne Identity, Damon's mien is pretty mono-dynamic---he's more android than human---but it's pretty hard to be too judgmental about a guy who can't even come up with the answer to any of the standard password-protection questions (Mother's maiden name? Uh...). Nonetheless, it's fun to watch him outwit the morons, even if it makes you wonder more than you already do about the quality of our agencies. All in all.....
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good but a step down from the original
the second part in this story is about bourne getting mistaken for killing two men in berlin during a deal gone bad of sorts and his having to run from the bad guys wanting him dead.we also get to see bourne recovering some of his memory from the past,in which he hasn't been able to recover much in the 2 years spent in india with his girlfriend.although this isn't as good as the first one, it still is a good action film.made mostly quick pace thanks to quick cut editing and some of the best car chases put to film.damon of course reprises the role and franka potente reprises her role as marie,briefly.eventhough she is not in the movie for long,unfortunately,her role has alot to do with bournes character development and the story in general.but the story itself isn't as good nor as interesting as the first.the other big star in this is joan allen and she deserved a better acting role to showcase her talent.julia stiles also reprises her role but it is minimal.all in all this is still a good action packed film.
Better than the original, but dependant upon it for clarity.
Jason Bourne, perhaps the most interesting new action hero to see the silver screen since Indiana Jones, returns in this spy adventure based (loosely) on the book by the same name.
Many people have complained about the direction, but I had no problem with it. I thought the action flowed very naturally, and I didn't find it distracting at all. I bought this DVD in a 2-pack with the new extended edition of The Bourne Identity. That re-release included an alternate (original) ending that I wish this movie had built upon. But even though it isn't what I personally would have done, I very much enjoyed Supremacy for what it was.
Hopefully, there will be more Bourne movies. The character has potential to be a long-term franchise, especially given the new status quo after Supremacy (which will allow the story to move forward in future movies). The Bond comparison is often made, but that's really only valid if you're comparing Bourne to the more serious Bond of the novels. Given that Bourne is a free agent, he's actually closer to Simon Templar than Bond.
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