Continuation from the first movie, no link to the book

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2004)

Where the first movie built upon the ideas behing Ludlum's book, this second movie (carrying the title of Ludlum's second book in the Bourne trilogy) is completely unrelated. Despite the fact that again some characters do have the same names (or partial names, like Bourne's companions Marie), this movie really is a new story, sprung from some facts in the first movie.
While many movie-goers may not care, I do believe that using the book titles for the movies is close to 'false advertising' because just like the first movie was *not* 'The Bourne Identity' as written by Ludlum, this second movie is certainly *not* 'The Bourne Supremacy' as written by Ludlum. It only remains to be seen whether 'The Bourne Ultimatum' will ever appar as a movie. If it does, it certainly will *not* be based on anything in Ludlum's book, since that builds upon the two earlier books.
I definitely understand movie makers not being able to stick to the story presented in a book due to time constraints. But literally writing a different story altogether, while keeping the title is going a bit too far.
Again a nice action movie, albeit it a bit less coherent than the first one. But the title really is deceiving.