The Bourne Supremacy

I don’t know how many of you follow the story of The Bourne Identity, but it has been around for a while. It was first written in the form of a book, then a movie that came out some time ago that my dad says he’s seen, and now they’re redoing them all over again in modern Hollywood.

And it’s a good thing, too, because there’s a lot of potential in the story. Matt Daemon plays “Jason Bourne”, a dude who, in the first movie, loses all his memory and only through a series of encounters and clues does he come to realize that he’s some sort of government agent involved in more than he thought.

What makes Jason Bourne’s story so interesting and exciting is how he is able to consistantly defy his adversaries through trickery so sick, it boggles. For instance, there was one point where he was being held by some police/government dudes in Berlin (I think it was Berlin), and he’s being questioned. Bourne responds with silence and only stares away from the questioner. Just then, the officer’s cell rings, and the person on the other end is telling him that he has a serious badass on his hands. He goes, “I understand,” and just as he goes for his gun, Bourne already had knocked out him and the other guard, opened up his cell phone, bugged it, and left the building in a matter of seconds. In the next moment, Bourne is in his car gathering more intelligence as he listens in on the guard’s phone call.

Anyway, it’s a seriously action packed story with scenes cutting back and forth between locations enough to make your head spin, not to mention the shakey camera style filming job. I recommend it to anyone who likes a good action film.

Sunday, July 25th, 2004 Reviews