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  The Bourne Supremacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bourne Supremacy (ISBN 0553263226) is a novel written by Robert Ludlum and a sequel to The Bourne Identity.
The myth that is Jason Bourne returns to the Far East when a political assassination credited to Bourne turns heads in Washington D.C. In a scheme to take over Hong Kong, the result of which would be civil war in China and possibly global disaster, Washington unleashes the real Jason Bourne a.k.a.
When Supremacy starts Marie (David Webb's wife) is taken captive by the United States government in an attempt to turn David Webb back into his former self, the mythical Jason Bourne.
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 The Bourne Supremacy
Bourne immediately thinks it is the government, and making good on his threat he resurfaces to go after them.
She is understandably pissed and wants Bourne brought in, much to the amusement of Ward Abbot (Brian Cox, Troy, The Reckoning).
Bourne is trying to come to terms with who he is. He has snippets of his past, but nothing seems to make any sense.
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 MCN: The Bourne Supremacy
Jason Bourne is a character that fits America's sense of political reluctance while blaming individuals, not institutionsm for horrible missteps, making Bourne the ultimate guilt-free American hero of this generation.
Greengrass' cinematographer, Oliver Wood, was on Bourne Identity, but the pro he is, he adapts to Greengrass' style of shooting a lot of coverage from a lot of angles, surprising and expected, and then making it into something special in the cutting room.
I expect Supremacy to push past the $250 million mark, at worst, and that should be enough water in that cash pool to float the next boat.
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 Movie Review: The Bourne Supremacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Bourne’s first outing, the successful The Bourne Identity, was a taut, low-key thriller about a man with no past coming to grips with his remarkable abilities and with the unknown deadly past that kept catching up with him.
Bourne still struggles with his largely forgotten past, and lives in a constant state of heightened alertness, always anticipating the day when Treadstone, the rogue CIA initiative of which he had been a part, may try to kill him again.
Eventually, the day Bourne has been watching for comes, and it’s not long before he discovers that not only is he a living target again, he’s also being pursued by a CIA agent named Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) for a hit on a CIA op that he had nothing to do with.
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 :: rogerebert.com :: The Bourne Supremacy
Jason Bourne obtained an identity in "The Bourne Identity" (2002), and the title of "The Bourne Supremacy" hints that he is not going to die -- not with The Bourne Ultimatum still to go.
Bourne awakened from amnesia, we recall from the first movie, possessed of skills he did not even know he had, and with a cache of passports and other aids to survival, a cache left to him by -- well, you remember.
I saw "The Bourne Supremacy" on the very same day I saw the remake of "The Manchurian Candidate." I was able to compare the symptoms, which involve quick cuts of fragmentary images.
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 The Bourne Supremacy Review :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A welcome throwback to blood-soaked espionage thrillers, The Bourne Supremacy is a gritty sequel that hasn't lost its popular appeal thanks to star Matt Damon, who reprises his role as Jason Bourne, a resilient killing machine who craves the life of an ordinary man.
Bourne is having unsettling flashbacks of his days as a trained assassin for the Treadstone project and is convinced the covert CIA outfit still wants him dead, even though he threatened to annihilate anyone who came after him.
The Bourne Supremacy gets a new director in the likes of Paul Greengrass, and his gritty realism proves to be the perfect visual style for this sequel.
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 Frank's Reel Movie Reviews - Movie Review - Bourne Supremacy
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Bourne’s feeling of claustrophobia and paranoia, as well as his disturbing dreams and horrible feelings of unknown guilt follow him like a cloud, precipitating in the form of extreme close-ups—the picture of a man consumed with questions.
Bourne is looking for answers about who he is, what he’s done in the past, and who to make pay for what’s been done to him.
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 The Bourne Supremacy
Bourne’s finely honed self-preservation instincts are so ruffled by a man who seems out of place that Jason grabs essential belongings and bolts with Marie.
Bourne washes the blood off his hands after engaging in a brutal fight with a handcuffed man that ends in strangulation.
Bourne uses stolen vodka to momentarily blind a police officer and cleanse a bullet wound.
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 The Bourne Supremacy
Stripped of embellishment, The Bourne Identity is almost a textbook on movement and gesture, as purely cinematic an action film as any to come down the pike since the heyday of the '70s British gangster genre.
The attractiveness of the Bourne character has everything to do with this idea that a being corrupted by the cruellest intentions of our government still has at its heart the kind of value system that may exist now only as a fantasy of decency.
Bourne tries to live a peaceful life but is haunted first by the same nightmare, then by his old employers, who believe him to be responsible for a few unconnected events.
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 Filmtracks: The Bourne Supremacy (John Powell)
Bourne does this in many similar technically gifted ways as James Bond does, and with the success of both The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy on film, the smell of the franchise's future is fresh indeed.
While the plotlines of the Jason Bourne films are --once again, like the Bond films-- ridiculous in their relentless attempts to produce convincing assassination scenarios, The Bourne Supremacy in particular has played its hand quite well with critics and audiences.
Powell had created a choppy string motif to represent Bourne's endeavors in the first film, along with a staggered and non-heroic string theme over the top of that rhythm, but much of that material was overpowered by other elements in the first score.
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 Review: Bourne Supremacy, The   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Bourne Supremacy opens two years after The Bourne Identity closed, with Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) having settled down with his girlfriend, Marie (Franka Potente, of Run Lola Run fame).
Thinking that the CIA is behind the attempt on his life, Bourne decides that the most appropriate response is to track down a few old acquaintances and remove them forever from the picture, thus fulfilling the promise he made near the end of The Bourne Identity.
Although The Bourne Supremacy disappoints relative to expectations established by The Bourne Identity, it's neither unwatchable nor uninteresting.
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 Reviews: The Bourne Supremacy - Christianity Today Movies
And yet, looking at Bourne's face, we sense that he has lost something by returning to this former way of life; we sense that the fact that he even has those reflexes is yet another painful reminder of the fact that he once embraced a basically evil life.
When Bourne suspects the CIA is after him, he says he has no choice but to fight back, but Marie says he does have a choice.
Bourne may have been programmed to be a heartless killer, but even the best programming cannot suppress his conscience.
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 PREVIEW: 'The Bourne Supremacy'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Supremacy is the sequel to The Bourne Identity, a surprisingly good adaptation of Robert Ludlum's first entry in a series of thrilling spy novels.
What set The Bourne Identity apart from your run-of-the-mill spy flick was a fast-paced cat and mouse plot and exciting, stripped down car stunts and martial arts action that stayed away from the outrageous excesses of films like Mission Impossible II.
The Bourne Supremacy is rated PG-13 and opens in theaters around the country on July 23rd.
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 Bourne Supremacy, The (2004): Reviews
The Bourne Supremacy re-enters the shadowy world of expert assassin Jason Bourne (Damon), who continues to find himself plagued by splintered nightmares from his former life.
The Bourne Supremacy builds on and exceeds the original, delivering, quite simply, one of the finest big-budget thrillers in years.
Almost everything that made "The Bourne Identity" refreshing -- the wit, the irony, the suspense, the novelty of its premise -- is gone in The Bourne Supremacy, and what's left is the spectacle of Matt Damon, with perfect posture and senses primed like a cat, making his way through a routine action thriller.
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 'The Bourne Supremacy'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
"Bourne Supremacy" picks up two years after "Bourne Identity," which ended with Jason Bourne (Damon) reuniting with the woman, Marie (Franka Potente), who quickly evolved from handy stranger with a car who turned into a getaway driver to loving girlfriend.
Bourne's past, as a trained assassin working for a secret CIA operation, still haunts him, awake or asleep.
The high-speed chase scenes in "Bourne Supremacy," and there is one spectacular one that detours into a tunnel, are done with close-ups and quick cuts that make it almost impossible to truly follow the action -- even from the balcony -- without feeling like you're on a ride at Universal Studios.
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 Amazon.com: movie info: The Bourne Supremacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Bourne Supremacy is a movie with a good story and a good cast shaken into a nauseating mess by poor directing, and there is no blame on Matt Damon or any of his supporting cast.
The audience can believe that Bourne is constantly thinking two steps ahead of everyone else, that anything can become a weapon in his hands, that he is always considering a way out, and that every act, even simply picking up a bottle of vodka, has a reason.
It is two years since at the end of The Bourne Identity, we left the wholesome, good looking all-American boy turned former CIA assassin with amnesia Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) to live happily ever with his grunge hippie girlfriend Maria (Franka Potente of Run, Lola, Run fame) on a sunny Greek island.
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 The Bourne Supremacy News and Headlines
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 with Matt Damon returning as trained assassin Jason Bourne in The Bourne Supremacy.
Director Paul Greengrass ("The Bourne Supremacy") is attached to the project...
Cox, who has recently appeared in "The Bourne Supremacy" and "X2: X-Men United," was chosen for his majestic voice, according to producer Mark Johnson.
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 The Bourne Supremacy (PG-13)
"The Bourne Supremacy" is the second big screen adaptation of the classic espionage and intrigue novels penned by Robert Ludlum.
Obviously something has to happen to set Bourne off and as heartbreaking as that event might seem it introduces the audience to a whole new dimension of this wonderful character called Jason Bourne.
When Bourne's fingerprint turns up at a murder scene, Landy quickly maneuvers for position, taking her newly acquired security clearance as license to turn Treadstone inside out.
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 The Bourne Supremacy
Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
The title of “Supremacy” is deceiving, implying that the amnesiac, confused and lost Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) of the first film has pieced together the puzzle surrounding his identity and past.
Awaking on a boat with nothing more than a bank account number to work with, Bourne scrambled in a panicked frenzy to figure out who he was, why he was being chased, and defended his life with skills and abilities he didn’t even know he possessed.
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 DVDAnswers.com - Latest News - The Bourne Supremacy (Region 1)
The Bourne Supremacy (Region 1) at 09.05 on 30/08/04
Don't know but "Bourne Identity" was on TV last night and I noticed in the credits that Robert Ludlum was executive producer.
The new bourne extended edition has a thing on him but doesnt mention his involvement in the movie anywhere.
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 The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Supremacy is the sequel to the 2002 blockbuster hit The Bourne Identity.
We re-enter the shadowy world of Bourne and his past life, as he is still plagued by splintered nightmares of his former life.
After a Chinese Premier is killed, Bourne is the one that is set up for the hit.
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 The Bourne Supremacy at Greater Union Birch Carroll & Coyle Cinemas
After The Bourne Identity and now with this sequel, The Bourne Supremacy, it would seem that Matt Damon was - well, born to play the CIA assassin with a memory problem.
Bourne’s past life, of which he can remember only unsettling fragments, catches up with him when an assassin arrives to kill him.
Bourne does not know why someone wants him dead, but he is soon on the run again and the assassin, Kirill (Karl Urban) is not the only one after him.
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 Box Office Mojo > Movie Review > The Bourne Supremacy
In the meantime, a CIA mission in Berlin goes terribly wrong and all the clues point to Bourne as the triggerman.
Complicating matters is the fact that the actual killer, Kirill (Karl Urban), has been dispatched to kill Bourne, setting off a chain of events that brings the ex-agent out of hiding and face-to-face with old enemies and friends alike.
Like the first movie, The Bourne Supremacy is punctuated throughout with bursts of action from an improvised fight in a Munich townhouse to a foot chase in Berlin to a car chase in Moscow (the highlight of the movie).
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 The Bourne Supremacy (2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Plot Outline: When Jason Bourne is framed for a botched CIA operation he is forced to take up his former life as a trained assassin to survive.
Trivia: Unlike the James Bond franchise, all the devices that Bourne uses are real and can be purchased by the average citizen.
Goofs: Errors in geography: When Bourne visits his ex-colleague in Munich, the bird singing in the background is an American thrush, probably a Wood Thrush.
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 The Bourne Supremacy mistakes, goofs and bloopers
Continuity: In the Moscow car chase, when Bourne's car is hit by a FSB Mercedes which had been hit by a truck, the whole exhaust section of his vehicle is seen collapsing to the ground.
Continuity: When Bourne is being chased by the assassin, he leans his seat back all the way in order to switch seats with Marie.
Continuity: When Bourne goes to Pamela Landy's hotel he asks the receptionist to call her room and we see her dial 225 but in the next shot of the phone's digital display it comes up as room 235.
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 New Haven Advocate: The Bourne Supremacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Small wonder, considering that the screenwriter (Tony Gilroy) is the same, the producers are the same and most of the original cast--even Chris Cooper, in a few newly-filmed flashbacks--return for the ride.
At the outset, Bourne and his girlfriend Marie (Franka Potente) are living in Goa on the Indian coast, safely off the grid...
A murder takes place in Berlin and Bourne, though half a world away, is framed to take the fall.
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 village voice > film > The Bourne Supremacy by Michael Atkinson
Around the same time a Russians-in-Berlin payoff run by Bourne's old fl-op agency goes bad (the saboteurs plant Bourne's fingerprint on an unexploded bomb), another Russian hitman uncovers the happy couple where they live, and Marie takes one in the head for the sake of modus operandi.
Likewise, most of Supremacy is an overedited headache that hardly makes up in frayed nerves what the visuals lack in clarity.
Superhumanly effective and reflexive, Bourne is an entertaining invention, and Damon supplies him with an engaging anxiety—even if the poor guy is so fearsomely adept that his various nemeses seem like stooges by comparison.
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 Variety.com - Reviews - The Bourne Supremacy
Jason Bourne keeps his edge in "The Bourne Supremacy," a nonstop chase that serves its dish of post-Cold War spy games very cold but with a pungent trace of melancholy.
Based on his actions alone, Bourne is a nasty piece of work, hardly a protagonist worthy of one's emotional interest; but once he's seen clearly enough for what he is, a pawn in a deadly game whose resourcefulness in staying alive is impressive, the story becomes more engaging.
The efforts of assorted hit men notwithstanding, Bourne's main adversary this time is Landy, a principled, relentless woman who knows less than she should about Bourne and Abbott, and learns the hard way.
www.variety.com /review/VE1117924414?categoryid=31&cs=1   (1122 words)

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