The Bourne Supremacy [M]

Suffering from amnesia, ex-assassin Jason Bourne is living a quiet life with his girlfriend Marie, trying to piece together the jagged memories from his violent past. But Bourne’s quiet life is blasted apart when he narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. Marie doesn’t. Now Jason is being hunted again having had his identity used to cover the tracks of another corrupt killer and traitor. With the real killer out to get him and the Government out to get what he knows, Jason takes matters into his own hands in an attempt to clear his name and move closer to the truth of who and what he is. 

Hoohoo it’s heating up now! The Bourne Supremacy is even more thrilling and mind-blowingly deceptive and action packed than the first one. The plot is a little harder to follow this time around as there really is more than one going on at any one time, but that just makes it all the more fantastic. This movie is great! 

Suffering from amnesia, ex-assassin Jason Bourne is living a quiet life with his girlfriend Marie, trying to piece together the jagged memories from his violent past. But Bourne’s quiet life is blasted apart when he narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. Marie doesn’t. Now Jason is being hunted again having had his identity used to cover the tracks of another corrupt killer and traitor. With the real killer out to get him and the Government out to get what he knows, Jason takes matters into his own hands in an attempt to clear his name and move closer to the truth of who and what he is. 

Continuing on from the first film, The Bourne Supremacy gets bumped up to a whole new level of awesomeness. There is much more intrigue in this movie than there was in The Bourne Identity as there are numerous plotlines overlapping one another for most of the duration. We begin with Jason still suffering from amnesia, having fragmented nightmares, and trying to piece together what these nightmares might mean: if they are just nightmares or memories from his past. The plot then is pushed violently forward when we see the assassination attempt of Bourne and Marie ends up being the one killed. What then starts as another tale of Jason being hunted quickly escalates into something else when we discover that not only was he framed but did have something to do with what he is being framed for. Bourne’s mysterious past continues to land him in hot water and it makes for wonderfully deceptive and extravagantly exciting cinema. 

As the plotline is thicker and more enticing than the first film, so too is the action. In Bourne Supremacy we see hugely memorable action sequences that are not so much about the skill of the fight, but about the camera. Throughout this movie, action sequences or not, director Paul Greengrass adopts an almost documentary style of filming as there is a lot of jostling of the camera, which quite cleverly mirrors the pounding heart rate of the audience during specific scenes. The car chases in this movie were also a huge improvement than those of the first film, making Bourne Supremacy really rollicking and thrilling on more than one level. 

Starring Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban, Gabriel Mann, and Joan Allen, The Bourne Supremacy is a fantastically exciting and rollicking movie filled with suspense, romance, drama, and plenty, plenty, plenty of action. The one-man war is pushed to new extents here and it’s absolutely fantastic to behold.