You're not supposed to notice the editing...

Rating: Null/10 (30 July 2004)

I have never felt ill after watching a movie before. I watched the Blair Witch Project without so much as batting an eye. But, man, was the Bourne Supremacy a badly edited movie. Was it a good film? I couldn't tell...the director wouldn't hold the camera still. Every scene in the movie (EVERY SCENE!!) was a "shaky" shot. Almost like the director took Michael Mann's pompous directing style to its' illogical extreme. It's like they spent so much money on marketing the film (I mean, the ads were everywhere), and had no money left over to buy a single tripod for the cameras. The editing director seems to have graduated from MTV Film School with a degree in ADD. I usually like Matt Damon, but boy was he wooden in this outing. The story was predictable, making use of cliché plot devices you've seen a hundred times before. Again, I must mention that I left the movie in a nauseous state, as did my girlfriend, her sister, her friend, and three other movie-goers that I noticed. My eyeballs actually ached form trying to follow the edits. You are not supposed to notice a films' editing. I see people giving this movie high scores, but I must disagree...it was a bad movie, as well as a bad movie-going experience.