not much like the book...

Rating: 7/10 (23 July 2004)

Why did they even bother to call this movie The Bourne Supremacy? The only thing it has in common with the book is the main character. It's a nice movie, lots of action (though a little too much camera motion for my taste), but for someone who read the book (and it WAS a best seller, so that means a fair number of people should have read it) and liked it, the movie should be a great disappointment. The book had so many twists and turns, the movie has maybe one. The book was set in Asia, Marie is kidnapped not dead (thus changing Jason's motivation), and the movie's ending is unsatisfactory. In short, the movie trailer should say "based on a character created by Robert Ludlum", rather than "based on the novel by Robert Ludlum" - that would be more honest.