The Bourne Supremacy

Director: Paul Greengrass Paul Greengrass

Overview

The second chapter in the "Bourne Trilogy," based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling espionage novels, reaches the screen in this sequel to the 2002 thriller The Bourne Identity. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) has abandoned his life as a CIA assassin and has been traveling beneath the agency's radar, eventually reconnecting with Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente), the woman he loves. But Bourne is haunted by vivid dreams and troubling memories of his days as a killer, and he's not certain how much really happened and how much is a product of his imagination. When Bourne is led out of hiding by circumstances beyond his control, he must reconcile his past and present as he struggles to keep Marie out of harm's way and foil an international incident with dangerous consequences. The Bourne Supremacy also features Joan Allen as one of Bourne's superiors, while Julia Stiles and Brian Cox reprise their roles as intelligence agents from the first film.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/05/2016
UPC:	0025192346873
Original Release:	2004
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:49:00
Sales rank:	7,102

Special Features

Explosive Deleted Scenes; Crash Cam: Racing Through the Streets of Moscow; Bourne to be Wild: Fight Training; Blowing Things Up; The Go-Mobile Revs Up the Action; Anatomy of a Scene: The Explosive Bridge Chase Scene; Matching Identities: Casting; Keeping It Real; On the Move with Jason Bourne; Scoring with John Powell; Feature Commentary with Director Paul Greengrass

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Matt Damon	Jason Bourne
Franka Potente	Marie Kreutz
Brian Cox	Ward Abbott
Julia Stiles	Nicolette
Karl Urban	Kirill
Gabriel Mann	Danny Zorn
Joan Allen	Pamela Landy
Marton Csokas	Jarda
Tom Gallop	Tom Cronin
Karel Roden	Gretkov
John Bedford Lloyd	Teddy
Ethan Sandler	Kurt
Michelle Monaghan	Kim
Tomas Arana	Martin Marshall
Oksana Akinshina	Irena Neski
Jevgeni Sitochin	Pan Neski
Marina Weis-Burgaslieva	Pani Neski
Tim Griffin	Nevins
Sean Smith	Vic
Maxim Kovalevski	Ivan
Patrick Crowley	Jack Weller
Jon Collin	Jarhead
Sam Brown	Actor
Shane Sinutko	Jarhead
Barnaby P. Smith Jr.	CIA Techie
Dominique Chiout	Waitress
Wanja Mues	Night Clerk
Aleksey Shmarinov	Moscow Taxi Driver
Stephan Wolf-Schonburg	Suspicious Cop
Olov Ludwig	Market Security Guard
Keshav Nadkarni	Mr. Mohan
Violetta Grafin Tarnowska Bronner	Neski Neighbor
Aleksey Medvedev	Young Cop
Aleksander Doobina	2nd Cop
Alexander Boyev	Actor
Claudio Maniscalco	Actor
Manfred Witt	Actor
Aleksey Trotsenko	Actor
Victoria Unikel	Actor
Oksana Semenova	Actor
Vitaliy Abdulov	Actor
Dirk Schoedon	Actor
Ivan Shvedoff	Actor
Denis Burgazliev	Actor
Nick Wilder	Actor
Paul Greengrass	Actor
Christine Beveridge	Actor
Peter Wenham	Actor
Henry Morrison	Actor
Jeffrey M. Weiner	Actor
Yevgeni Sitokhin	Mr. Neski
Marina Weis	Mrs. Neski
Jon Collin Barclay	Jarhead
John Powell	Composer

Technical Credits

Tony Gilroy

Robert Ludlum

Brian Helgeland

Paul Greengrass	Director
Tony Gilroy	Screenwriter
Paul L. Sandberg	Producer
Patrick Crowley	Producer
Frank Marshall	Producer
Jeffrey M. Weiner	Executive Producer,Producer
Doug Liman	Executive Producer,Producer
Henry Morrison	Executive Producer,Producer
Dan Hubbard	Casting,Casting
Jeff Imada	Stunts
Victor Ivanov	Stunts
Joseph Middleton	Casting
Uli Nefzer	Special Effects
Darrin Prescott	Stunts
Kit West	Special Effects
Robert Ludlum	Screenwriter
Andrew R. Tennenbaum	Producer
Deb Adair	Sound Effects
Christopher Assells	Sound Effects
Karen Baker Landers	Sound Effects
Bob Beemer	Sound Effects,Sound Mixer
Bill W. Benton	Sound Effects
Brian Helgeland	Screenwriter
Industrial Light & Magic	Special Effects
Scott Millan	Sound Mixer
Kirk Francis	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Interesting things happen when real actors are cast in action films. The heroes and villains in films like this are better able to find shades of gray in the usual good-guy/bad-guy conflict. Matt Damon, Brian Cox, and Joan Allen all communicate a powerful intelligence in The Bourne Supremacy. That intelligence helps sell the non-action sequences because a scared intelligent person creates much more tension in a viewer than a scared dumb person. These characters should all be able to think themselves out of difficult situations, and watching each of them mentally process their labyrinthine game of cat and mouse provides the movie's biggest thrills. The problem with the film is that the actual action sequences are shot in tight close-ups and edited frantically so that the audience is never given a big picture in which to place the action. These sequences, especially a momentum-draining final car chase, do not measure up to the quiet moments in the film. Director Paul Greengrass appears to be more interested in the characters than in the action. He resolves the movie with a scene of personal confession, a scene that helps remind the viewer what is really good in the film, rather than an action sequence. The Bourne Supremacy is a humorless film. There was a kick in The Bourne Identity when Jason Bourne discovered his powers. The only time Bourne discovers something about himself in this sequel is at the very end of the film, and that piece of information does not provide any payoff. All it does is promise a third film in the series that hopefully will find a better balance between character and action. Thanks to the top-notch cast, The Bourne Supremacy is a functional summer thriller, but it could have been more.