The Bourne Supremacy

Rating: Null/10 (5 March 2009)

Aside from a slight dip in the quality of the direction and a rightly-despised approach to the shooting and editing of a fight scene and car chase this is about as good as the first one.
Perhaps due to Franke Potente's death and the fact that scenes of Bourne driving in silence are not very cinematic, the character almost takes a back seat, seemingly clocking up a lot less screen time than in the first while all the really exciting stuff goes on with Joan Allen's team. Still, he's given plenty to do and there are a couple of fine set pieces (including that fight, which despite the ShakyCam is undeniably impressive).
Allen's motivations and actions seem to conflict, and I'm not sure if that was always intentional, and the plot is a little too convoluted for my tastes but I got the gist of it and another viewing will clear everything up I'm sure.
Paul Greengrass' DVD commentary is worth a listen for his delusional claims that while Doug Liman's fight scenes were well-staged, his are "More powerful and intensely immediate", that Franke Potente's early shower was a bold, brave, dynamic, unexpected move (as opposed to being entirely predictable and conventional) and a couple of other similarly laughable moments as he contents himself to just sit back and proclaim how "Brilliant" and "Amazing" this scene or that is.