Don't forget your travel-sickness tablets!

Rating: 7/10 (16 August 2004)

As you will no doubt be aware, this is the sequel to the highly successful spy thriller The Bourne Identity. All I want to say is that the plot, acting and direction are excellent, but there is one element that lets it down. This is a special warning to my Mum and anyone else!
This film gave us all a headache. I was with a group of friends, and we all felt a bit ill by the end. The camera movement is unrelenting. The whole thing is shot cinema verite style, and as a result is very shaky. It's like the cameraman was wearing very lumpy shoes or something. In all the fight scenes there is so much movement you can hardly tell what is happening. Every time there was a smooth, steady shot you could hear the audience collectively breath a sigh of relief.
So be warned! Don't watch this film if you're epileptic, or just easily nauseated by wobbly cameras!