NOT an improvement on the original!

Rating: 5/10 (21 September 2006)

Documentary-style film-making definitely has its place (such as director Greengrass's "Sunday, Bloody Sunday," and "Flight 93,") but not in a sequel to a movie as lush and taut as Doug Liman's 2002 version of the "Bourne Identity." No one paying the slightest bit of attention would confuse this movie with a real documentary, so why send the viewer lurching and jerking around like a sophomore UCLA student filmmaker would? Don't get me wrong: I loved the characters, the plot and the sports. And I loudly applaud Greengrass's shunning of CGI stunts. But I implore him to use a more conventional style of cinematography for the next Bourne installment. If I want to make myself seasick, I'll go rent "The Blair Witch Project."