FILM: Bourne Supremacy - WARNING: Spoilers !

[jpgrdnr]

Bourne Supremacy - WARNING: Spoilers !

Wondering what people think.

I think it was shot well. And pacing was good. Editing was spot on. It was neat to see Karl Urbain in sort of the antagonist kind of role, or generally as one of the antagonists. Not a classy a race scene as French Connection . Ronin had a better sequence. I think the original was better (Identity) as far as that racing scene is concerned.

I was a bit concerned that killing off the female lead, Franka Potent early on was disappointing. I like her as an actor and the film could have been a bit better if she stayed on. I never read the books so maybe its true to the book.
Just it seemed like a cliche motivator to go kick some ass. Revenge.

I liked the fact of Nicky returning for a sort of cameo. And seeing a bit more of who she is. As a character.

Damon...Damon is the anti-hero. But has sort of created this college grad kinda smart guy that he can't get away from. He's striving to be a dirty Achilles in sense. Sorta.


Its not Ronin as far as the overall sense of how I see covert ops go (minus the Sean Bean skit). Though Ronin does have a flare for romanticism.

It amounted to a smart, European based flick that Hollywood produced, with lots of people looking particularly serious. No jokes in the whole film.
I don't think anyone had a smile. I guess it amounted to a very cold film after
drifting from Goa to Berlin. Warm to emotionally cold. Not really artsy.
But....
Good sequence of Marie floating in the water.

 

[Daisybabe]

I thought this was alright. It would have been at the pretty darn good level if it wasn't shot by a cameraman with Parkinson's. The jiggliness made me feel ill and made it very difficult to (literally) focus on the movie.

I was shocked when they killed off Marie! Although, at the time, the main thing running through my head was get her out of the effin water, you moron! I still think he could have saved her if he didn't waste so much time.

Love Karl Urban! (And have ever since Xena.. )

Maybe I have just seen way too many movies, but everything I see these days seems like a ripoff of something else. The whole car chase scene/wreck - didn't we just see that same scene, in the same tunnel, in I, Robot? Maybe Matt Damon just needed a Mini instead of a taxi to drive better.

 

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I was shocked when they killed off Marie! Although, at the time, the main thing running through my head was get her out of the effin water, you moron! I still think he could have saved her if he didn't waste so much time.

I'm pretty sure that was a head shot... not much left to save after that.

I wondered to myself though... why did the guy shoot the girl and not Bourne? Then I realized he was too far away to make faces through the scope, and it's really hard to fire from a standing position, let alone a moving target... so he just aimed for the head of the driver.

I enjoyed the movie, but my eyes were fucking killing me. I understand what they were trying to tell us with the shaking camera's... I got it guys, you can lay off now. But no, they didn't... they do the thing with the camera shaking through the whole damned movie. If you are prone to motion sickness, you might want to re-think seeing this flick.

The second car chase was just BRUTAL. I loved it.

The fight scene between the Naples sleeper (don't know his name, but he was the main bad guy in XXX) and Bourne would have been a lot better... if I could have told who was who.

My eyes are still feeling a little funny.

 

[apneist]

One of the best thing about the Bourne movies are the fight scenes. Everything is close-distance, lots of elbows, any object can be used as a weapon, no kicks to the head- only to the knees. its obvious that whoever choreographed the fight scenes knew what they were doing.

 

[alasdairm]

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[cydonorb]

I liked the film a lot BUT it suffered from a bad choice of director. Paul Greengrass used shaky hand held camera photography to great effect in 2002's BLOODY SUNDAY but from BOURNE SUPREMACY I can deduct that he is a one trick pony. Greengrass basically took an $85 million movie & made it look like a $1 million movie. This was a REAL crime during the final climatic car chase scene where you could not tell what was happening. This film is Exhibit A in my drive to get a 10 year ban on handheld "shakycam" filming or the use of grainy filmstock in any big budget movie. Big budget Hollywood films can afford a fucking steadycam & 35mm filmstock ferchrssakes!! The use of the dreaded hand held camera in big budget movies is a cliche that is even more tired than the outrunning of the fireball.

Despite that I still enjoyed the film a lot which is a testement to the actors & screenwriter. I like that its a throwback to espionage films of the 1970s where the spycraft & the spy's wits are what drive the action, not gadgets & special effects. I also like the fact that you really believe the actors know what they're doing & saying as opposed to typical Will Smith & Ben Affleck crappola where you don't believe for a minute that these dolts can even answer a phone without assistance.

As Robert Ludlum wrote 5 BOURNE books you can be sure there will be at least one more film in this series & I for one am looking forward to it...as long as there is a new director or perhaps Doug Liman (who directed the first one) will take the reigns again.

 

[karmacoma]

I was really disappointed. Thought it was cliched and tedious. Much preferred the Bourne Identity.

 

[Solipsist]

Meh.

Wasn't terrible, but I didn't think it was anything special.

The jerky camera shots during fight scenes and car chases were a bit much. They gave me a headache.

 

[Snakecharmer]

Seriously guys....read the books. You'll never want to watch either of the Bourne movies again. It's a god damned shame how much they raped the plot and story lines in these two movies. Marie never dies, they never once mention Carlos the Jackal, or Bourne's identical copy sent to frame him...shit I could go on. Seriously, the book trilogy is awesome.