Disappointing

Rating: Null/10 (3 September 2004)

Well I just got home from a Friday night session at the local movies. I was looking forward to seeing this sequel ALL day today. The Bourne Identity is such a high quality thriller that it only seemed natural that a good thing would naturally follow. How wrong could I be?
One and only ONE major factor totally made this film a disaster. The camera work. I felt as though I was sitting on Matt Damon's lap throughout the whole movie while at the same time experiencing an epileptic fit !!
The story line was intriguing and at times, quite gripping & suspenseful, but when one cannot fully focus on what is actually going on, one's attention is quite quickly taken away from the storyline altogether.
Unlike other reviewers, I left the cinemas without nausea or a headache, just extreme disappointment. I cannot understand why a film - with such an obvious massive budget and talented (& no doubt highly paid) actors - would be filmed in such a way. Did the Director not sit back and watch the film before it was realized? Was a test audience not utilised to view the film before it was passed?
Perhaps the whole movie captured on someone's uncle's Sony camcorder? The uncle with Parkinson's disease.... Such a shame, shame, shame... If only the Director had invested in more wider angles on scenes before focusing in and a LOT more steady STILL focusing over longer periods and less jerkiness, the movie may, just MAY have been a big success...