Dizzying and disappointing veer from original story - SPOILER

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2004)

I was very disappointed in The Bourne Supremacy. One of the things I really liked about the Bourne Identity was the relationship between Jason and Marie - I remembered reading the Ludlum books with fondness long long ago. The first movie, while veering some of the details from the original, such as Marie's background, did the book justice and was an excellent, excellent film. When Marie gets killed in the first part of the story, I was stunned! Where was the original story-line?! I spent the rest of the movie, trying to remember if Marie had been appeared to have been killed, only later to be resurrected, as I had remembered each of the trilogy to have Marie as Jason's wife later on...Taking Marie out like that ruined the deeper soleness of the movie and made it a regular spy action flick. Exciting and on the edge of your seat action, but no soul, no depth.
The other factor that made the movie less than stellar was the closeup shots with the dizzying, unable to perceive what was going on, shots. After the first twenty minutes into the movie, I had to ask my friend if we could move to the back of the theater, just so I could bear to watch it.
This sequel, while still keeping Matt Damon's superb acting job and sharp action, did not have the appeal that the first one did by the removal of the romance and the confusion of the scenes. Also, some of the reasoning in this second film seemed to not add up. Perhaps my brain was discombobulated by such fast scenery that it made it harder to keep up with the plot or to follow it.
I am really sad about the death of Marie, and came home, still hoping somehow that I had remembered the books wrong and that she comes back to life in the third movie - washed ashore and resurrected. Still, that would be weird that Jason wouldn't have tried harder to make sure she was dead...
I feel the need to read the book again to get the satisfaction I was hoping to achieve with the books and with the first movie. I may not see the third one, then, if it will be more of the same ilk as this second.