6/1/2023 0 Comments The bourne supremacy novelAs before, this film shares the same lead character and punchy title as one of Robert Ludlum’s airport-appropriate tomes, but little else. In the first Bourne blowout, the operative discovers he’s a black-bag specialist, lands in espionage hot water and racks up a low-key happy ending with a girl (Franka Potente) after a lot of high-gear action. Now, with Bourne’s identity if not memory intact, the question driving the action isn’t existential (who am I?) but moral (what did I do?), a surprisingly weighty mystery for a movie intent on blasting our synapses into submission. Stricken with amnesia, Bourne enters the first film not knowing who he is, only to soon discover he can kill every which way. As in the earlier “The Bourne Identity,” Matt Damon stars as a former CIA super spy caught in the ultimate pulp-existentialist quandary. In the smash-and-grab-you-by-the-throat action flick “The Bourne Supremacy,” style is meaning and that meaning is fast, fast, fast.
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