A worthwhile second 'Bourne' installment.

Rating: Null/10 (30 December 2004)

(No spoilers in this first paragraph.) This is the kind of movie one either likes or doesn't like. It is an action, mystery movie just for entertainment. We were entertained. Matt Damon again comes across as a credible super fighter. Highly conditioned and highly trained, he survives by his ability to think quickly and take evasive action. He is not a James Bond, he is not a super hero. This second Bourne movie takes off where the first one left off. Jason (Damon) and Marie (Potente) have a nice life in some out-of-the-way place half-way around the world, all they want is to be left alone. But they aren't, and that starts the action in the 'Bourne Supremacy.' The fight for survival is back on.
Jason and Marie are going somewhere in their jeep when Jason notices something not quite right. They flee, are chased, almost get away but a rifle shot gets Marie, who was driving, they crash into a canal, he pulls her out but, still under water, sees she is dead, he eludes the attacker, who thinks Jason is dead also.
A job is done in Berlin, two people are killed to silence them, Jason is framed via planting of his fingerprints. Joan Allen as Landy takes over the investigation, not realizing how good Jason is. He finds where she is staying, her room number, talks to her via phone while he has the telescope of a high powered rifle trained on her temple.
The real villain is exposed, but Jason remains on the run. The last scene, a very elaborate and exciting chase scene filmed in Moscow, ends with his attacker dead, and Jason walks towards the light of the tunnel entrance, symbolic of his quest for the "light" of being. He is a killer, but instinctively he wants to be a happy man.
The DVD has a very interesting set of extras. Unique techniques were used for filming car chase action scenes, putting the characters and viewers right into the action. Filming was done in authentic locations, very little 'special effects' were used. Overall a very entertaining movie.
Brian Cox as the rogue Ward Abbott is good, as well as Julia Stiles as Nicky and Karl Urban as Kirill, the assassin after Jason.