Dull story with overdone camera work

Rating: 4/10 (15 May 2007)

The Bourne Supremacy is a pretty average story, one you have probably seen dozens of times already.
Matt Damon - once a spy - is now a man that remembers little about his past; he is forced to go back into action when a Russian hit-man murders his girlfriend while trying to take him out. He obviously wants to find out why someone wanted him dead, and he soon realizes he has CIA on his tail, too.
This pretty basic one-man-army against the whole world tale, one you would have called trite and under average, is spiced up by frantic editing and epileptic camera work, which require the viewer to keep his/her eyes glued to the screen just to follow the simplest of actions.
While hand-camera has been used to great effect in many other movies, this one is just plain overdone. A lot of work and effort (and money) has been put in the making of this film, but this does not save it from its own mediocrity. I would be almost tempted to say the director overdone it willingly, to try and conceal the low quality of his source material, confuse the viewers and eventually trick them into thinking it is actually 'cutting-edge'.