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Movie Review: The Bourne Supremacy

Posted by Mark | Filed under Movies

This after­noon Ariesna and I went out to see The Bourne Supremacy. As I expected it was mostly a fast paced action movie with just a hint of drama tossed in to spice things up. Was it good? Well… it would have been bet­ter if they didn’t use such jerky cam­era work for the action sequences, par­tic­u­larly the car chases. I have a fairly strong stom­ach for such things but even I was start­ing to feel a touch of motion sick­ness by the end of the movie. Poor Ariesna was down­ing some Dra­mamine to try calm­ing her stom­ach and fight off the severe motion sick­ness that she was feel­ing. Still if you can get past the motion sick­ness issue; there are some other dis­ap­point­ments in store for you:

• Matt Dae­mon isn’t play­ing the role of Jason Bourne as well as he did back in The Bourne Iden­tity.
• Fig­ur­ing out the real bad guy in this film takes no effort and that ruins the sus­pense­ful­ness of the film.
• The por­tion of the movie where Bourne goes to Rus­sia, feels tacked on like it really belongs in another movie¹.
• The way Bourne dealt with the Russ­ian assas­sin didn’t make any sense.

So am I say­ing that I hated the movie? No, I enjoyed it quite a bit. It was a fun film that allowed me to have some mind­less enter­tain­ment for an hour & 48 min­utes. Given I woke up exhausted and was in a sleepy haze all day that was prob­a­bly for the best. I give the movie 3 and a half out of 5 cups of cof­fee. It’s worth see­ing if you can catch it at a mati­nee or at a cheap-seats movie theater.

¹ Though I have to admit, I did admire Bourne’s char­ac­ter for locat­ing the girl and apol­o­giz­ing to her for what he’d done in the past.

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