The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Supremacy is an intense and nerve-racking thriller about the former CIA agent Jason Bourne, whose past catches up with him. The film builds on "The Bourne Identity", but it presents the premise, Bourne's memory loss and the hunt for him, so deftly that everyone has a chance of keeping up.

Jason Bourne and his girlfriend Marie have long lived an anonymous and almost happy life in Goa, although Bourne still suffers from unpleasant nightmares in which glimpses of his bloody past surface. The idyll is abruptly shattered when the couple once again have to flee from an unknown pursuer, but this time luck is not on their side.

Bourne decides to take the bull by the horns and confront the people who have hounded him and who may be able to tell him who he is. At the same time as the attempt on Bourne and Marie's lives, he is framed for the murder of two CIA agents who took part in a large-scale operation in Berlin. It is all rather tangled, and it can be hard to tell friend from foe. That also goes for the head of the failed operation, Pamela Landy, but she insists on getting to the bottom of the case despite many warnings.

The Bourne Supremacy is nothing less than an excellent sequel that combines an ingenious plot, told at a breakneck pace, with a raw realism that is light years away from most modern action films' chasing after effects.