The Bourne Supremacy
reviewed by Brian "the Naked Gun" Felts & Benn "Where's the Humanity" Farrell
While I have problems with this movie, it is not bad. However, if you see it in the movie theater,
you need to sit in the very back, because it was shot very poorly. If you sit to close to the
screen, you will get a headache.
This time around, Bourne is hiding in India with his girlfriend Marie, again played by Franke Potente,
trying to remember his life. Meanwhile the CIA assistant director Pamela Landy, played by
Joan Allen (The Contender), has an operation in Berlin where they are going to flush out a mole
inside the CIA by buying information from a Russian. The operation is blown apparently by Bourne,
who kills both the informant and the agent, and makes off with the information and the money.
However, a Russian assassin, played by Karl Urban (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) actually did the
killing and also framed Bourne in the process. He then flies down to India and attempts to kill
Bourne and end the whole CIA operation. However Kirill, the Russian assassin, accidentally kills
Marie. Bourne, thinking that it was the CIA, decides to go and keep his promise of opening up a can
of whoop ass if they didn't leave him alone.
Overall, the movie is okay. The story is entertaining and better than the first, just because we
don't have to here Bourne whine about not remembering anything. Damon did a respectable job
portraying Bourne again. I don't know if I am completely convinced he will ever be a great
action movie star.
The BIGGEST problem of the movie was the photography. The action scenes
were shot as if they were using an old hand held VHS camera. It's unsteady. You miss parts
of the fight, and it is just too hard to follow, ending up closing your eyes. If done right, this
kind of shooting will work; see "Saving Private Ryan." If done wrong, you get THIS. The photography
was one of the reasons why this film was okay but not good.
The other problem was just too many unbelievable occurrences in the movie which
have you laughing. One was in the beginning, when Marie was shot and the car she and Bourne
were in went off a bridge, submerged into water. Bourne tries to give Maria mouth to mouth while UNDER water.
How does that work exactly? In addition, it took him about five minutes to unfasten his
seatbelt, swim to the air pocket in the car--even though the window was shot out in the back,
get her out of the car, give her mouth to mouth not once but TWICE, and then slowly float to the
surface, he must have a set of lungs with the same capacity as a blue whale's.
Another instance
of "What the F**k?" was toward the end, during the big car chase, when Bourne steals a Russian
Cab in Moscow and is chased throughout the streets. All I will say is, if the Soviets used
these cabs instead of their tanks, we all would be speaking Russian and living as communists.
Despite these weaknesses I did enjoy watching the movie, but I am a sucker for action movies
which take place in Europe. Its okay, but by no means the best action movie you will ever see.
Brian - the Naked Gun
It was boring. I don't have much to say about this picture. I didn't quite like the first one,
but I'm glad I did see it. Otherwise, this one may have been out of context for me. Joan Allen is
kind of hot. The theater's popcorn was good though. I had to go to the bathroom at one point,
so I may have missed the best scene of the movie. Basically, I don't care. Matt Damon, as an
action hero, reminds me of an overactive child in day care smacking all the other kids around.
Snoozer. If you miss this one this summer, don't cry. However, there are worse out there this year. Benn - Where's the Humanity?
This is the sequel to the 2002 hit "The Bourne Identity" starring Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting) as super secret
spy Jason Bourne who lost his memory. "The Bourne Supremacy" is based from the book written
by Robert Ludlum, who wrote the "The Bourne Identity" and "The Osterman Weekend," also turned into a movie.