headache

Rating: 1/10 (23 July 2004)

Spoiler alert perhaps i shouldn't have read the book first. the movie is such a disappointment compared to the book. bourne identity is also a better book than movie, but at least that movie carries the spirit of the book: amnesia, love, warmth, loyalty, integrity. supremacy (movie) is random and alienated.
but supremacy would be a pleasant action flick were the camera work not such a travesty. i had to look away from the screen perhaps 200 times to keep the seasickness at bay. hand- held bumpy camera, wildly careening views from ground to sky. editing cuts every 2 seconds. to me this did not evoke poised, highly-trained, cia mystery man. it evoked forced-by- courtesy-to-watch-your-cousin's-14-year-old-son's-home-video. i still have an eyestrain headache an hour later.
and what's with the fight scenes?! in identity, damon's a lithe, athletic hero (his kung-fu is strong!) in supremacy, the camera's been taken over by gremlin showboats. i can't even see what the heck damon's doing!
by the way, bad enough to kill off conklin in identity. why kill off marie?!? maybe we're missing ludlum as producer this time around.
2 positives: the scene with the Russian activists' daughter and the "i can see you" scenes between damon and joan allen.