The Bourne Supremacy (2004)(Movie Review)

In the sequel to The Bourne Identity (2002), we find Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) and his girlfriend, Marie (Franka Potente), have been hiding in Goa, India. Bourne still unsure of who he really is has about a half a dozen passports, and is still haunted by nightmares of his past, Bourne uses his skills to keep them off the radar so his former colleagues won‘t be able to find them. But their stay in Goa comes to an end when Bourne spots a stranger (Karl Urban) whose look basically screams "assassin," at least to Bourne. In the ensuing chase, Marie is killed and Bourne resolves to discover who ordered the hit and deal with them accordingly. Meanwhile across the globe, in Berlin, a covert operation run by senior CIA agent Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) goes wrong, two agents are killed and several million in U.S. government funds have been stolen. A fingerprint is the only evidence found at the scene, which leads Landy to a CIA database connected to project Treadstone. Her security clearance doesn't come close to giving her access to the Treadstone files, but she refuses to stop until she finds out what information they hold. Landy's investigation involves the theft of $20 million in CIA funds, and pursuing the rumor that a CIA insider is the culprit and that Russian oil tycoon Gretkov (Karel Roden) was in someway involved. She learns Treadstone was a super-secret black op closes down shortly after rogue Jason Bourne quit following orders and started thinking for himself. The fingerprint turns out to belong to Bourne, and an international game of cat and mouse starts. Landy recruits Bourne's old contact, Nicky (Julia Stiles) and CIA brass Ward Abbott (Brian Cox) to trap Bourne, who is after the mysterious assassin that killed Marie and the people responsible for setting him up. The chase for the truth takes Bourne through Asia and Europe with the action converging in Berlin where he confronts Abbott about his past and in Russia where in a over the top car chase he deals with the assassin and then find and apologizes to the daughter of a couple he killed in his past. In the finally scenes of the movie Bourne is told by Landy what his real name is. (Can you say THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM?)

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