Movie reviews

The Bourne Supremacy

In case you didn't know, this is the sequel with the first installment being "the Bourne identity" and is based on a series of books written by Robert Ludlum. basically it involves a Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) who was a top US secret covert operative, specialising in doing hits (assassinating people). He was a part of kill squad call the Treadstone project and has lost his memory. He's walked out of Treadstone and is attempting to live a normal life in India. Without giving too much away, he has been framed for a kill and the Feds and an assassian working for the Russians have come after him, forcing him out of his somewhat normal life.

What makes this movie great is the fast paced action, and the great car chases. But the problem is it borders on overkill - he is constantly running away from the jaws of capture. Jason is a cool character who is always two steps ahead of the Feds. He's slippery, has a cool head, calculated, revengeful and really bitter. I wish that the directors developed his character a bit more. I have to say that some of the camera angles were really annoying especially during the fight scenes. The camera moves awakwardly as two men struggle and depicts a fight where everything is going tupsy-turvy and people are being thrown around a room but its very annoying. In addition, some of the sounds when they are whispering were barely audible.

Jason is a guy that the crowd roots for because he escaped from a governemtn agency that had taken his mind, body and soul and turned him into a killing machine. He was re-living his normal life until they took something precious from him again. You feel sorry from him that he was forced into this situation and then we see him revert back to the old ways - surviving on the techniques and killer animal instinct that the Feds instilled in him. At times he is the hunted but then he becomes the hunter again.

Overall, I give the movie 7 out of 10. It's definently a movie better suited to the big screen or if you have an excellent sound system at home. I haven't seen the first one, but its not necessary to understand the moview.


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