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Last weekend I took Heather to see the Bourne Supremacy. I was excited to see it as I thought the prior film was a good modern spy / thriller with an interesting premise and set of characters.

Unfortunately for this go around the good qualities of the first film seem to be lost. The acting seemed wooden and since the main characters were established in the prior film there is no real development of them. I thought the plot was downright dull. It seemed more like the poorly conceived idea for a 1 hour TV show than that of a movie (let alone a movie based on a novel). I thought it was odd that about half way through the movie the clear antagonist dies and we are left with 45 minutes to an hour of essentially frivolous plot needing to be wrapped up. Much like my complaint about the second installment of the Lord of the Rings a good portion of this movie simply was characters wandering around on screen - unfortunately this film lacked both the production values and interesting scenery of Lord of the Rings. The constant jerky cinematography didn’t help either. I found about 10 or 15 minutes into the film I simply stopped caring and was eager for it to end.

I really wanted to enjoy this film but I found it a resounding failure on pretty much all accounts turning the experience into a two hour exercise in boredom. Strangely the reviews I read prior to seeing the movie were largely positive so maybe I’m in the minority here.

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