Bourne to Shake, Shake, Shake

Rating: 5/10 (25 July 2004)

After seeing the first movie, I eagerly waited in line for more than an hour to see the sequel on its first night out.
The obvious difference was the direction.
In the first, the camera moved with more grace. In the sequel, the camera was constantly shaking. That quickly got annoying. It was as if the movie was shot by a nervous cameraman with horrible balance and was edited by somebody with ADD.
The car chase sequences suffer the most. You watch minutes of action and become kind of numb. It's like sticking pictures of cars over a picture of a Russian street and then taping them to a paint can... pulling up a chair two feet away for a close view... then hitting the switch to shake the paint.
There's noise and lots of things moving... but it lacks detail.