Bourne Supremacy, The (2004)

3 out of 4

Starring: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Joan Allen, Karl Urban, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles

Director: Paul Greengrass

Time: 120 mins

Viewed: Colony Square 12, Louisville, Colorado

Taut sequel to 2002's The Bourne Identity, again starring Damon as the CIA assassin plagued by amnesia. This time he is wanted not only by his former employers, but a Russian crime lord and his lethal henchman. Shaky, hand-held camerawork is occasionally jarring, but kinetic pace and exciting car chase finale compensates. Potente, Cox, and Stiles return from the original; Allen adds class as the CIA honcho in charge of the chase, and Urban is a good foil as the Russian killer.

(c) Joe Wong (21 August 2004)