smitty-45 Review of The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

Jerky hand held camera. Noisy. But still good.

[29 July 2004]

The movie features terrific acting, casting, script and directing. In addition the locations are interesting and add a lot of texture. The story is very simple. Cinematography sucked! The entire movie was done with a hand held camera! The sound track is like the "Blue Man Group" all the way through bang, bang, bang, bang ... man it'll drive ya bonkers. Spoiler: The girl and love interest gets killed in the beginning. That is too bad because what was so great about the first movie was Bourne's chemistry with her. After she dies, the intensity sags quite a bit and never comes back. Car chases and fist fights are unfortunately ruined do to the herky jerky, sloppy, unfocused camera work. The first movie, "Bourne Identity" is far better on all accounts. Advice: take some Dramamine and ear plugs to the movie. We give it 3 out of 5 stars.