The Bourne Exploitation !

Rating: Null/10 (20 February 2009)

I loved part one, as an action movie that tries greatly to be more than action movie. But here, you'll smell the stench of the commercial exploitation.
Firstly, the smart intellectual shadows of part one isn't here. This is openly the usual Bourne adventure. And although the rim looks really hot, but everything in it was whether traditional or hollow.
Secondly, they put some kind of supernatural halo above Bourne's character. Clearly he isn't Bond nor Superman, but while watching him through the final car chase, he seemed invincibly steely with many cars clash his seat and he survives totally unhurt; which took away some of the sweet humanity that distinguishes such a hero, despite his noble choice at its end.
Thirdly, the plot's nature; it's weak, with flimsy excuses: Bourne made his girl sit instead of him as the driver just to get killed! Contradiction: why the need to frame Bourne while he has been killed in India first?! Idiotic motives: why to remember Bourne after whole 2 years of his situation already?! Unexplained matters: among all the intelligence experts, no one pays attention to the irony of a professional highly trained spy, from the weighty Treadstone project, leaving an obvious fingerprint that leads directly to him?!, except just one, who gets killed shortly after then nobody discovers his murder, or ever asks about him later?!!, and the idea of the hunting sniper is reformed, read: repeated, from the first movie, let alone how all the complicated events came to an end too easily: (Cox)'s character faces Bourne weakly, then committed suicide and in front of the one who'll going to solve everything in a happy end?? But at least there wasn't the Hollywood usual: a forced sex scene, a comic relief, or compulsory heroine.
Director (Paul Greengrass) tracks down well the method originated by (Doug Liman) in the first Bourne movie. He makes the movie as technically clever, attractive, and so intensive. (Greengrass) gave the image such a brilliant sense of reality, making the whole thing like a coarse live broadcast from a disaster area, while keeping sane and tense in the same time whatever the national street was. And remember, this is the movie where all the action takes place in actual streets, and there is no CGI involved at all. That deserves a WAW from my side!
So, with unique cinematography, smart editing, and wild music orchestra, all the movements seems fast yet strict, not as a video game or comics, but as a movie with dissimilar artistic personality. How (Greengrass) draws with light green on (Matt Damon)'s face, makes him pale as a ghost, leads him like an innocent man in a crazy jungle; it's another story else nearly all what we watch of other American action movies. But unlike (The Bourne Identity), (Supremacy) has just the action. It's entertaining movie, however somehow forgettable comparing to its sure surpassing original.
Despite the ultimate efforts of (Damon), he's still a shortcoming like he was, partly, in (The Bourne Identity). Looking cold, boyish.. Well you name it. True that he hits the 9 out of 10 here, though for me his 9 is more like 6 as an action hero or charismatic lead. Sorry (Matt), nothing personal.
I believe the previous (Bourne) movie was a masterpiece, this one assures that in a bad way. From one viewpoint, the tagline "They Should Have Left Him Alone" can be used as a reference about the first movie as well!