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Bourne Supremacy’s tag line, “They Should Have Left Him Alone” is so completely apropos for this particularly puzzling sequel. Not one to use clever clich? driven opening phrases in the BluntReview, anyone worth half a Sir Conan Doyle Club Membership would have caught the tongue-in-cheek cryptic foretelling message the faceless folks in marketing had sent.¹

A guide to the Berlin scenes/segments in The Bourne Supremacy, including those set in Berlin and in other places (Naples, Munich, Moscow, etc.). A segment may include several scenes.²

Not that The Bourne Supremacy, directed by Paul Greengrass from a screenplay adapted from Robert Ludlum?s novel by Tony Gilroy and starring Matt Damon as the eponymous but pseudonymous Jason Bourne, is not politically tendentious. It has in common with The Manchurian Candidate a determined refusal to say anything at all directly about the geopolitical realities of the post 9/11 world.³

All of this comes to mind after seeing The Bourne Supremacy, Universal’s follow-up to The Bourne Identity. But this film doesn’t feel like a sequel… it feels like the start of a powerful adult franchise of slightly greater box office reach than the Jack Ryan series, but of a definitively superior quality.⁴

THE BOURNE SUPREMACY is an exhilarating thriller that’s a thriller really thrills for a change. Making a running time of close two hours feel almost too short since it flies by so fast, the movie is an adrenaline-pumping ride.⁵

In 2002’s The Bourne Identity, the 30-year-old German actress created the role of Marie, the streetwise Berliner who fell for Matt Damon’s amnesiac assassin, Jason Bourne. This summer’s hit sequel, The Bourne Supremacy, treated moviegoers to a nasty surprise: Early on in the movie, Marie gets whacked!⁶