Just as a heads up, TOTALLY NOT THE BOOK

Rating: 6/10 (11 December 2006)

I know how everyone always says that the movie is "so much different" than the book. Personally, I don't care much if a movie is like a book. I care whether or not the movie was good.
That being said... I do find it entertaining how different Bourne Supremacy is from the book with the same name. LIKE I SAID, this is not to say that that fact detracts from the quality of the movie, I just think it's kind of funny.
I mean, first of all, Bourne Identity was fairly different than the book. Fine. Bourne is kind of on the run at the end of the first movie, whereas he is in the care of the US gov. at the end of the first book. This means that the two sequels have totally different starting points.
So, the movie starts off with Bourne in Asia iirc, whereas the book starts off with Bourne in the US. In the movie, Bourne's love gets killed, and basically the whole movie takes place in Europe (pretty much). In the book, Bourne's love does NOT get killed, and the whole book (pretty much) takes place in Asia. At the end of the movie, Bourne is in Europe, and kind of in limbo. At the end of the book, Bourne is back home happyish with the wife in the US. On good terms with the government. Movie Bourne is pretty much never on "good terms" with the gov.
So, similarities between the movie and the book? There's some bad-ass named Bourne.
As for the movie, I thought it was decentish. It was basically just an action figure-out-what's-going-on movie, with nothing extremely notable in my opinion. I liked Bourne ID FAR MORE than this movie. Bourne ID has the whole idea of not knowing who you are, etc. Which is an interesting and catching twist. Which, inherently (unless you were to have Bourne get amnesia AGAIN in the 2nd movie, which would be pretty lame) the 2nd movie can't have. Which makes it suck more. It's kind of like all the super-hero movies. You have the movie where they go from not being a super-hero, to realizing or developing their powers. That transformation/ realization about yourself is a very cool storyline. A storyline you inherently can't have in the sequel. Bourne is similar, and hence the sequel wasn't as good.
The sequel is a fairly non-unique action movie.