with a Brit director we get a much more traditional American thriller

Rating: 6/10 (17 September 2007)

How ironic, the first Bourne film had an unmistakable European feel to it, with its Paris streets and 'real' people relating to each other and struggling to survive and here with a Brit director we get a much more traditional American thriller. It's still a fairly exciting ride but the camera-work is too self consciously 'arty' and the dialogue is crap. I agree with others that some of the fight scenes are so badly shot, with the priority to make them look 'cool' that it's often hard to tell what is happening to who. It's not down and out bad but it seems such a shame after the surprise pleasure of the first that this should seem to slip back to being mundane instead of building on the good features of the original. For me it was a much better idea to have Damon relating to others as the film progressed rather than just a mean and puzzled loner who goes all soppy at the end.