What movie are all of you watching?

Rating: 3/10 (22 April 2006)

So, here's the thing. If you don't give one damn about any character, how can you care how a movie turns out.
I was watching this movie, and it was serviceable enough, but I ended up not finishing because I just didn't care who was doing what.
Jerky camera work feels dated for such a new film, and there are a lot of stupid holes that make you doubt too many people in this thriller are really master spies or assassins, at least in the way we have come to understand them through other movies.
And, for those who like Ludlum books, don't waste your time. I only read Identity, and they changed that horribly so that the USA looks like the bad guy (not really the case in the books). This movie seemed to do the same for the hour I watched.
Ludlum is likely spinning in his grave, which explains the timing of these films. He died in 2001, and these two films are 2002 and 2005 because they couldn't have gotten away with usurping Jason Bourne in this way were he still alive. Identity was "close" to the original to the point that it was "Identifiable." But I'm sure the producers were happy the pesky writer was long dead before dreaming up Supremacy. He wouldn't have allowed what was made.
What's in a name? Not much, it would seem.