Bourne Supremacy

Finally got around to seeing The Bourne Supremacy this morning.

The Bourne Identity is a movie that I enjoy quite a bit. We missed it in the theater and caught it on DVD, but it ranks up there as one of my favorite action/spy flicks. It didn't follow the book, but it stood well enough on its own. They did a good job and told a good story.

So I was pretty excited about the fact that they were making the sequel. Then I heard about the camera work. I've read all the opinions on the matter and I can understand what they were going for. Can I appreciate it? No. But I can understand it. The camera is just as bad as you've heard (or more likely seen). But the story is a good one. Again they deviate wildly from the source material, but they pretty much had to and the books are still out there to be read. They've opted to go the vengeance route - hinted at at the end of the first movie. So Bourne is no longer the lost man, searching for some sense of himself, confused by the acts of violence he can so easily perpetrate. Instead he welcomes his obvious talents as they allow him to harm those who have harmed him. The amnesia that plagued him in the first movie is still a factor (in a much more limited form) but he's more certain of himself and is set on his course. Oddly enough the sense of identity that was such a mystery in the first film makes an appearance at the end of this one, so possibly the third film (finishing off the three Ludlum novels) will focus on that story. And maybe we'll even get glimpses of Carlos...

And I was pleased to hear Extreme Ways by Moby closing the film. Overall the music was well done and I was glad that some of the same theme music from the first film made its way into the second. It suited the mood of both films exceptionally well.

So, yes, it's worth seeing, just be prepared for a camera that gets progressively worse the closer to an action sequence you get.

Oh, one more thing: Best. Car. Chase. Ever.

Seriously.