better than James Bond?

Rating: 7/10 (7 September 2004)

The Bourne series, now at the second install have the potential of becoming a rival of the James Bond series. They do belong to the same category of international spy stories, taking us in all kinds of urban and exotic jungles, they are written around a well defined character, they originate in a series of novels written by a master of the genre, and with the James Bond series losing steam lately - who knows?
'Bourne Supremacy' is not a masterpiece, but is one of the good action films of the summer. It has a good script, it is well acted and if you accept the rules and you are after action entertainment you do not need much more. Some of the viewers in IMDb criticized the camera work in the action scenes - I actually found it interesting with the subsecond takes more suggesting than describing what is going on. For me it is he changes in pace between these scenes and the more psychological long takes - especially the ones in Russia reminding the Russian cinema style that make the film look different.
7/10 on my personal scale.