The familiar character-driven story is yet another fast-paced, high-stakes, globe-trotting adventure with shaky hand-held camerawork and quick-cut editing.
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07/22/04
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
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Reviews Counted:179
Fresh:145
Rotten:34
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: A well-maded sequel that delivers the thrills.
Theatrical Release:13-08-2004
Synopsis: The Bourne Identity Following the smash worldwide success of 2002's The Bourne Identity, Universal Pictures brings the second installment of best-selling author Robert Ludlum's series to the screen... [More]
Starring: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles
Director: Paul Greengrass
Reviews for The Bourne Supremacy
161 - 180 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
`The Bourne Identity' was, above all things, muscular - lean, taut and physical -- and its sequel...has not let the series get flabby.
07/22/04
A welcome throwback to blood-soaked espionage thrillers, The Bourne Supremacy is a gritty sequel that hasn't lost its popular appeal.
07/22/04
Only the car chase--the best in years--is not confusing.
07/22/04
The Bourne Supremacy ups the ante and the story zooms to a whole new level while still keeping the paranoia and the spy-vs-spy feel of the first film.
07/22/04
If Damon played Harrison Ford's Deckard character in the first film, in the second he's Rutger Hauer's Roy Batty.
07/21/04
With an intense tone, strong mystery and dedication to story over frivolous action, The Bourne Supremacy is one of the best movies of the year!
07/21/04
The need to separate from the first film seems to have sliced most of Identity's considerable charm right off the bone of what could have been (and still could be) an interesting franchise.
07/21/04
It has an enviable level of clarity and plausibility while dynamically satisfying the conventions and requirements of the thriller.
07/21/04
The most fun you'll have in theaters this summer
07/21/04
The way the film has been made, nothing that happens seems inevitable -- which is to say, anything seems possible. There's a word for that sensation. It's called excitement.
07/21/04
A breathless sequel with tense intellectual punch, smart, seat-gripping action, and a hero who is utterly compelling, almost without saying a word.
07/21/04
Have you noticed that the older he gets, the more Matt Damon resembles Ray Liotta? 'It's essential preparation for my remake of Operation Dumbo Drop,' notes Matt.
07/21/04
This dark, daring sequel is Bourne's journey to acknowledge the blood on his hands and atone for sins of his half-remembered past. It's a tougher, more complicated movie.
07/21/04
a cut above your average fantasy world espionage thriller.
07/21/04
The film's goals are in the right place: character development and character growth.
07/21/04
A cold, calculating virtual redux of The Bourne Identity that leaves a bitter aftertaste in its wake. Audiences have seen this all before, many times over.
07/21/04
Once again, Damon scores in the title role by never courting audience sympathy and playing his all-American good looks against the hard-shell brutality of the character.
07/20/04
Top CriticEvery time you feel like you're finally grabbing hold of something involving, the picture once again spins frustratingly out of reach.
07/20/04
Top CriticMost of Supremacy is an overedited headache that hardly makes up in frayed nerves what the visuals lack in clarity.
07/20/04
Latest News for The Bourne Supremacy
December 09, 2008:
Frank Marshall Preps Fourth Bourne Movie 
Thanks to a new deal with the Robert Ludlum estate, Universal has access to the late author's entire library -- and according to producer Frank Marshall, one of those books may... More...
October 17, 2008:
Next Bourne Sequel Gets a Writer
Eager to move ahead with a fourth "Bourne" film, Universal has hired George Nolfi to write the screenplay. More...
June 26, 2008:
Fourth Bourne Movie Around the Corner
IESB caught up with producers Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley on the red carpet at the Saturn Awards, and the producers shared a scoop or two -- such as the imminence of a fourth... More...
February 15, 2008:
Exclusive: Doug Liman Has Designs on Bond
The Jumper helmer tells RT that though he reinvigorated the spy genre with Bourne Identity and had the producers of Bond terrified; it was that franchise he always wanted to do. More...
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