Compared with the book this is supposed to come from, it's rubbish

Rating: 3/10 (8 May 2005)

The Bourne Trilogy by Robert Ludlum is a superb series of books.
Unfortunately, this mediocre film doesn't come close to realising the potential available to the makers.
What possessed the screen writers to turn a completely enthralling story into this dross? Where is the hunt for "Carlos the Jackal"? Why on earth did they turn Marie, the Canadian economist who plays a major role helping "Bourne" through real difficulties obtaining the money stash, into a complete non-entity? Do they think women are just there for decoration? Incidentally, before you suspect my motive for that comment, I'm a guy.
Marie plays a major role in the book, but here she is just a stooge.
What we are left with is a standard Hollywood production that depends on a pretty boy male lead and lots of action. Of course they did throw in a totally ridiculous car chase. Where would Hollywood be nowadays without a completely unbelievable car chase? There hasn't been a good one since "The Rodin".
Pehaps if they had simply called it "Fred loses his memory" it might have stood alone as a moderately interesting film, but to ride on the back of "The Bourne Trilogy" with this trash is unforgivable.
Forget the Bourne films. Get the books instead. The way Hollywood has hacked "Supremacy" is even worse. Would you believe that one is supposed to be about a power struggle in Hong Kong and China?