Green Grass hurtles you through this paced up sequel.

Rating: 8/10 (6 June 2020)

Paul Green Grass steps in the director's chair, with his quintessentially action film octane buff & thrilling direction style. The film picks up a style of its own. It would replicate this in the third installment the Bourne Ultimatum. It chiefly involves shaky camera, close camera angles, & fast choppy editing in perfect synchronicity with the series' awe sound.
The casting is still great, with Matt Damon bringing a dead pan portrayal to the Bourne character. Hes very good in this role, which commits a great success to the whole of the movie. Supporting players Brian Cox and Julia Styles, along with newcomer Joan Allen, all provide stellar support for Bourne. The action is intense and really well done, and the plot is thrilling and will surprise you quite a bit.
The movie is assembled from standard thriller ingredients, and hurtles from one action sequence to another in India and Europe, with cuts to parallel action in Washington and New York. What distinguishes it is Bourne's inventiveness. There's a scene where he takes about four seconds to disable an armed agent and steal his cell phone contact list, and you're thinking, this is a guy who knows what he's doing. And how about the innovative use he finds for a toaster? It's neat to see him read a situation and instantaneously improvise a response, often by using lateral thinking.
The camera work is extremely fast paced, and overall it has a gritty, captivating style. The camera is unstable. It was obviously done intentionally by design choice, but not excessively overdone. Through action scenes that had you at the edge of your seat, you'd just come to realize that you can see what the heck is going on. This makes these scenes easy to enjoy. But not only was it the action scenes; even during quiet still scenes the camera would always seem to be moving. Just to serve as a warning, it's pretty much like that throughout most of the movie, so brace yourself for an adventure of epic proportions.
We have a pretty good idea, long before anyone else does, because the movie observes the Law of Economy of Character Development, which teaches us that when an important actor is used in an apparently subordinate role, he's the villain. But the movie doesn't depend on its big revelations for its impact; the mystery is not why Bourne is targeted, but whether he will die. He survives one lethal trap or ambush after another, leaping off bridges, crashing cars, killing assailants, and finally limping a little after a chase that should have killed him.
Because it's plot heavy, The Bourne Supremacy requires the viewer to watch, and the large amount of talking goes some way to distancing this from most other action movies. However, this could also be seen as a good point as it can not, at times, hinder the movie in the excitement stakes and make it easy viewing for those that do like their action. The movie spans across Europe to a number of different countries including Germany, Britain, France and Russia and this keeps it exciting as it allows the landscape of the movie to change constantly and the film doesn't dwell in the same area. In fact, the film is very efficient on the whole and it never overindulges in anything, which compensates for the amount of talking and allows it to be exciting. Despite it being more stealthy than most, time is still found for a number of high-octane sequences including fist fights, explosions and the great car chase that looks as if it could have been lifted straight out of Grand Theft Auto.
With all of these elements together, you got one great action thriller that in many cases even surpasses Identity! Movies like this are hard to come by, in todays times with many action pictures that just don't work and become tedious. Definitely see The Bourne Identity before this don't fret: you will be very entertained.