The Bourne Supremacy

Wow, this is the first movie we can remember that we discussed walking out of (several times) but hung in (barely) to the end.   If you're a tremendously huge Matt Damon fan (Stuck on You) or if you're just WILD, crazy, nutso over the Robert Ludlum novel that started this string of spy movies, then I apologize.  You would need to be fanatical in one way or another to be able to stay with this one.

Our biggest complaints:   The camera action in this movie is on par with The Blair Witch Project, so we were totally motion sick early on.   They do lots of fast jiggly, shaky scenes so you can't actually see anything - it's all just a blur.  I have a theory on this - most people complain that novels don't translate well into movies.  That's because everyone reads and imagines for themselves what people look like, what the scene looks like, etc.  When it becomes a tangible reality on the screen it's not going to be exactly like each person imagined, so they will feel let down.   The solution is what they did for this movie - blur all the scenes, make everything so convoluted that you have to rely on your imagination just like when you're reading a book!   That way everyone fills in the blanks for themselves and thinks it's exactly like what they remember from the book!  Voila!

Those of us who never read the book are left with a big smeary incoherent movie.  Matt Damon - loved him him Stuck on You but honestly he could be ANYONE in this movie.  Plug in any male actor and it's exactly the same movie.   The actor who brought something to this was Carl Urban (Lord of the Rings).  Every scene he was in we perked up and watched.  He is watchable.  Damon is not.

This movie is full of so many chase scenes that there's barely a break between them to form a story, and the chase scenes are so long you will honestly forget WHO is chasing and WHY!   We totally did. 

The crowd looked visibly restless - lots of getting up and going in and out so I don't think we're the only ones who felt we "should stay to the end because we paid for it".   

This one was a stinker.   The theater was great - Pueblo Tinseltown - popcorn was fresh and wonderful!   

Overall rating - a 1.    I didn't think I'd give anything a 1 because we can find redeeming value in most all movies, but hey - the 1 is being generous here.