Ruined from the moment it started.

Rating: 4/10 (24 August 2004)

The Bourne Identity was a good enough film. Tense, exciting, absorbing idea and interesting concept.
The Bourne Supremacy has half the plot, half the excitement and 10 times the cuts. During the quiet scenes the camera lurches like a drunkard on his way home on a Friday night. During the action the editor butchered the film stock with a shredder and glued it back together at random. No shot seems to last more than a few seconds and most last for a fraction of that. Even during the longer shots it's impossible to follow the action: the human eyes doesn't move fast enough to track the movement of a man running through a crowd - you just have to stare at the centre of the screen and hope that you can gather enough images peripherally to paste together the slightest understanding of the scened being played.
The plot would have worked in a 45-minute episode of Alias. In a 100-minute film it would have held it's own except that you stop caring long before the end, exhausted from the effort of comprehending the visuals. Do yourself a favour: avoid.