Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Written by: Tony Gilroy
Stars: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Joan Allen
In the follow-up sequel to The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, Jason Bourne (Damon) and Marie (Potente) are in hiding in Goa, India, trying to live a normal life and stay low from Treadstone and the CIA. However, when an assassination attempt on Bourne goes wrong, he must once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
There were no plans to make a sequel to The Bourne Identity (2002) when it was conceived. Matt Damon commented, "When The Bourne Identity came out I said, 'There is very little chance we will do a second film, just because nobody on the team who made the first wants to make another movie if it can't be as good as, or better than, the first one.'" According to producer Frank Marshall, the plot for the sequel was not based on the novel The Bourne Supremacy but also by Bourne's threat in the first film to come after the CIA if it targeted him. Producer Paul L. Sandberg felt that screenwriter Tony Gilroy's deviating so much from the book was necessary "because so much of the world has changed" since 1986, when the sequel was first published. Marshall said that Gilroy thought of an idea that Bourne "would go on what amounts to the samurai's journey, this journey of atonement."
The producers replaced Doug Liman, who directed The Bourne Identity. This was mainly due to the difficulties Liman had with the studio when making the first film, and their unwillingness to work with him again. British director Paul Greengrass was selected to direct the film after the producers saw Bloody Sunday (2002), Greengrass' depiction of the Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland, at Gilroy's suggestion. Producer Patrick Crowley liked Greengrass' "sense of the camera as participatory viewer", a visual style Crowley thought would work well for The Bourne Supremacy. The film was shot in reverse order of its settings: some portions of the car chase and the film's ending were shot in Moscow, then most of the rest of the film was shot in and around Berlin, and the opening scenes in Goa, India were filmed last.
According to a June 2008 article from The Guardian, "Two weeks before [the film's] release, [Greengrass] got together with its star, Matt Damon, came up with a new ending and phoned the producers saying the new idea was way better. And it would cost $200,000 and involve pulling Damon from the set of Ocean's Twelve for a re-shoot. Reluctantly the producers agreed—the movie tested 10 points higher with the new ending"
Paul Greengrass did an outstanding job directing. At times, the film felt like a documentary, being filmed all gritty and realistic. This film was great. I really enjoyed the action sequences in this film, more than the first. I thought Matt Damon was great once again. Joan Allen was a great welcome addition to the saga, playing the Deputy Director of the CIA. She plays a good villain to Bourne. I also loved the hand-to-hand combat scene in the middle portion of the film, with Damon facing off against the only remaining member of Treadstone, the corporation from the last film. The film has 2 awesome car chase scenes, one at the beginning, and at the end, both between Matt Damon and Karl Urban. My opinion, this film is a notch above The Bourne Identity, pretty great sequel.
8/10
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