Bourne supremacy

Rating: 8/10 (14 March 2005)

the Bourne supremacy features a British director who portraits part II of the saga in a new compelling fresh light. as of now we are completely on a different storyline from the Robert Lodlum's novel, Conklin and Marie are dead and no longer the main characters of the trilogy after Bourne (as they are in the book), so readers should not expect to see their paperback on screen. as we cannot expect to visualise lodlum's precise and extensive description of characters, we instead see a junk of action expressed with majestic cutting and very tense, fast paced, almost disturbing camera work. if it's true that the cinematography is untidy and wobbly, then is also true that exactly that is what make the final car chase one of the most appealing in today's cinema history and Greengrass is master in making it work. Being a fan of the novel I can only be disappointed by the lack of human contact with the character of Jason Bourne as on paper we learn a lot about him and what he's going through, but this is an action movie and the car chase and the fight scenes alone are worth the miss. The music score her does a lot of work in adding drama in Jason's search of his own self. I believe the film has just won this year's Empire award for best film and deservedly so may I add.