Great movie!

Rating: 10/10 (29 July 2004)

Usually, the sequel to a movie is not as good as the original but in this case, the sequel is better than the original. I remember reading Robert Ludlum's novels on the character Jason Bourne and being thoroughly entertained by it. When I heard this character was to be made into a movie, I was a little wary because movie adaptation of a book is usually not well done and after seeing the first movie, I felt my fears were justified. When I heard a second Bourne movie was going to be made, my wariness turned to anger. I felt the first movie was not true to the novel and Matt Damon was the wrong actor to be portraying Bourne. However, I am a masochist so I did go see the second Bourne movie and I am glad that I did.
The writing was better than the first movie and I had gotten used to Matt Damon's face as Bourne that I was not annoyed by his presence on the screen at all. The action was well done although a bit over the top in certain scenes but it did not hamper the realistic feeling for the story.
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The story takes place after the first Bourne movie where he tries to leave his past as being an assassin for the CIA behind him and try to live a normal life with his girlfriend in India. But that is not to be when an assassin kills his woman instead of him, and that leads him on a rampage across Europe to find the reason why the CIA, he erroneously believes, is still after him even though he explicitly told his CIA contacts in the first Bourne movie, that he wanted no more part of the spy business.

In his investigation, he finds that he is being framed as a killer of two CIA operatives who were on a mission to retrieve information regarding an important Russian citizen. His quest for truth leads him to discover how the two CIA agents and his girlfriends death are all tied to a scheme planned by corrupted CIA and Russian officials. Further, he begins to recall an assassination he once did which he begins to unravel is directly linked to the corrupted scheme.

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This movie is action-packed and well written. If you are like me and enjoy a good spy movie, then look no further because this is it.