Not supreme

Rating: 4/10 (2 January 2011)

Jason Bourne has escaped the world of Treadwater to Goa, India, where he lives a peaceful and happy life with Marie. Still not fully aware of his past he is more or less reconciled with himself and set to live his days away from who he used to be. That is until the past comes back to haunt him in the guise of the mysterious Kirill (Karl Urban), who suddenly destroys Bourne new world and with it causes the death of Marie. Meanwhile someone has killed two CIA agents in Berlin and did his best to frame Bourne for the kill. Jason Bourne is not about to back down as he is back in Europe and with one hell of a vengeance...
On many levels the change of director did not seem to suit the Bourne trilogy and albeit the last part was a markable improvement this is a below par action movie, which lands a lot of punches, but lacks enough power to remain in memory. The is epitomised by the chase sequences or fights, which are rather standard unmemorable experiences. The end crash sequence and one nifty fight with another former Treadwater assassin are the highlight of an otherwise slowly unfolding experience. Even though it is the shortest of the Trilogy it felt much longer than the supreme "Bourne Identity".
A lot of this has to do with the script itself, which is severely poorer, than its predecessor and unable to fall from plot-hole into plot-hole and cruises unknowingly in the seas of ridiculous scriptwriting. Some of the flaws are forgivable, but essentially it does cause Bourne to look a little bit like a twit, while the C.I.A. are a bunch of morons without little to no observational powers. Add to that the script basically seems to retread what was already done in part one, so we have very similar fights and chases, where Bourne tries to hide from the Police, the C.I.A. and god knows who else.
The key plot-hole that irked me in disgust concerned the general notion that Bourne is so well trained that he never makes a mistake (as is specifically stated by one of the C.I.A. Special Ops), but at the same time no-one in the whole department ever gave a second thought about Bourne leaving a fingerprint on the scene of a crime. Elementary, my dear Watson. From then on we get the general background of the movie, which is far-fetch and badly scripted. Even though the movie remains thoroughly enjoyable (mainly thanks to a good portrayal of the title character by Matt Damon) you just can not drop the notion that everyone in the story is acting way stupider, than what should be acceptable for super special spies...