Yikes...take your sea sickness pills before watching!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (29 July 2004)

Man, I went to watch this movie coz I like the books and thought the first movie did a fair job of staying true to the book and having read the reviews here, I thought how bad could it be (with the shaky camera work). Well, I don't get sea sick easily but I gotta tell you that I had to focus on keeping from throwing up throughout the movie!!! Man, the director is just terrible. How can you enjoy a movie all the while trying your best not to upchuck your dinner??? Jeez, if they do make a third one (which I think they will), I hope that Greengrass would not be the one to take the helm. In fact, I would avoid any movies directed by this jerk!
(******* POTENTIAL SPOILERS HERE *********) Okay, rant aside. The movie is so so. There seems to be no concept of time. For instance, after Jason & Marie was 'killed', the killer watch to make sure that no one survived and the scene cuts to him showing up in Moscow. It then cuts back to Jason watching the India authorities raising the jeep (with him still damp from his swim)...There were several instances as well...
Too bad, the only fight scene in the movie was so difficult to watch as well the car chase on the streets of Moscow due to the camera work. Editing is another that makes you wonder what the director was thinking...The scene where Jason was listening to the conversation between Landy and the CIA Naples officer shows Jason driving (the whole scene would cut between the front view of Jason to the side with any reason)...Other useless, irrelevant stuff like cutting back and fro between Jason running on the beach and Maria looking through Jason's writing...
Ratings: 2 stars out of 5 - not worth the ticket price.