This movie is not based on Robert Ludlum's novel of the same title and does not even resemble it.

Rating: 1/10 (1 September 2005)

The plot line of Robert Ludlum's novels (Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy) is very very simple. A beautiful compassionate and skillful woman, Marie, marries a man, deeply wounded spiritually mentally and emotionally, David Webb, and helps him to find himself and heal, against an exciting background of CIA malicious manipulation.
I suppose it is a spoiler to say screen writer Tony Gilroy decides to kill off one of the critical protagonists early on even though her role is critically fundamental to Robert Ludlum's plot, as is her happy reunion with him at the end of Supremacy, so I have labeled it a spoiler, but I have to mention it to vent my anger and dissatisfaction with this pornographic abortion of a film, and the fact that I was seduced into watching the thing because NO reviews I could find contained a "spoiler" to warn me away from it. All the way through, I hoped and thought even a psychopathic misogynist like Tony Gilroy would resurrect Marie in honor of her critical role clear to the end of the novel Supremacy.
If Gilroy was so anxious to write the garbage he did, he has the right to do so, but why did he not at least have the decency to title it something of his own, but not the novel by Robert Ludlum? And where does he get the chutzpa to say it is "based on the novel" by Robert Ludlum?
There is at least one bright side for me. At least if I ever see the name Tony Gilroy associated with another movie I will know enough to vow NEVER to see it, and warn all my friends and anyone else who will listen that it is probably a piece of pornographic garbage.