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The Bourne Supremacy
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPaul Greengrass
Screenplay byTony Gilroy
Brian Helgeland
Story byRobert Ludlum (Novel)
Produced byFrank Marshall
Patrick Crowley
Paul L. Sandberg
StarringMatt Damon
Karl Urban
Franka Potente
Brian Cox
Julia Stiles
Gabriel Mann
Joan Allen
CinematographyOliver Wood
Edited byChristopher Rouse
Rick Pearson
Music byJohn Powell
Production
companies
Kennedy/Marshall
Ludlum Entertainment
Distributed byUniversal Studios
Release date
  • July 23, 2004 (2004-07-23)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$75 million[1]
Box office$288,500,217[1]

The Bourne Supremacy is a 2004 American spy film very loosely based on Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name. The film was directed by Paul Greengrass, written by Tony Gilroy and Brian Helgeland, and produced by Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley. Universal Pictures released the film to theaters in the United States on 23 July 2004. It is the second in the Bourne film series. It was preceded by The Bourne Identity and is followed by The Bourne Ultimatum.

The Bourne Supremacy continues the story of Jason Bourne, a former CIA assassin suffering from psychogenic amnesia.[2] Bourne is portrayed by Matt Damon. The film focuses on his attempt to learn more of his past as he is once more enveloped in a conspiracy surrounding the CIA and Operation Treadstone. The film also stars Franka Potente as Marie Kreutz, Brian Cox as Ward Abbott, Joan Allen as Pamela Landy and Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons.

Plot

Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) and his girlfriend Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente) have been living incognito in Goa, India for the past two years where Bourne struggles to recall the specifics of his first mission as a black ops agent. In Berlin, CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) runs a "buy operation", spending $3 million to purchase evidence exposing the mole within the agency that stole $20 million in allocation money seven years prior. Before Landy's operative can complete the transaction, Russian FSB agent, Kirill (Karl Urban), infiltrates the building, plants a fingerprint to frame Bourne, kills Landy's operative and the seller of the information and makes off with the evidence and the $3 million. Kirill then reports back to Russian oil magnate Yuri Gretkov (Karel Roden), who sends him to Goa to finish the frame-job by assassinating Bourne. Bourne spots Kirill coming and flees with Marie in a jeep. Kirill gives chase and shoots at the vehicle to kill Bourne but kills Marie instead, causing the jeep to run off a bridge and crash into the river below. Kirill leaves, believing Bourne to be dead, but Bourne survives the accident and departs for Naples, Italy to seek vengeance.

Landy follows the planted fingerprint lead and gains security clearance to sift through the CIA archives to investigate "Operation Treadstone," an elite squad of assassins into which Bourne was enlisted. She stumbles upon evidence implicating Alexander Conklin, the late former director of the operation, leading her to question Conklin's boss, Deputy Director Ward Abbott (Brian Cox), who admits only to vague details. Landy gives a report to her supervisor, Operations Director Martin Marshall (Tomas Arana), advising that some years back, Russian politician Vladimir Neski acquired proof of the identity of the thief who stole the $20 million. When Neski threatened to make the information public he was killed by his wife in an apparent murder-suicide in a Berlin hotel room. Landy suspects Bourne and Conklin were responsible and the meeting is interrupted when a report comes in advising that Bourne has just been detained in Naples. Marshall orders both Abbott and Landy to apprehend him.

Meanwhile, in Naples, Bourne incapacitates the consulate field officer interrogating him, copies the SIM card from his cell phone, and learns of Landy and her suspicions when he monitors a subsequent phone call. Bourne then heads to Munich to interrogate the only other living former Treadstone operative, Jarda (Marton Csokas), who informs him the program was shut down after Conklin's death. Jarda attacks to stall Bourne and Bourne strangles him in self defense then blows up his house to avoid capture from the incoming CIA team. In Amsterdam, Landy and Abbott question former Treadstone support technician Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) and bring her along with them to Berlin. Believing that Landy ordered the hit in Goa, Bourne surveils her team's on-site headquarters from a sniper position atop a building nearby. He calls Landy and arranges to meet Nicky at the Alexanderplatz, where he abducts her. Nicky tells Bourne that Abbott was the true mastermind of Treadstone, not Conklin.

Next, Bourne visits the location of his first mission, the Brecker Hotel in Berlin, and gains full recollection that he killed Neski and his wife on Conklin's orders and made it appear as a murder-suicide. Abbott kills his assistant Danny Zorn (Gabriel Mann), when he begins to uncover the truth of the conspiracy. Bourne breaks into Abbott's hotel room and records an incriminating conversation between Abbott and Gretkov in which they discuss their roles in the theft of the $20 million. Holding Abbott at gunpoint, Bourne records him confessing to ordering the hit in Goa, Neski's murder, and the murders of the agents in Landy's buy operation to cover up the theft. Bourne refuses to kill Abbott out of respect for Marie's values. Bourne then leaves with the tape and shortly thereafter, when confronted by Landy, Abbott commits suicide. Bourne sends the tape of the confession to Landy.

Bourne travels to Moscow to find Irena Neski (Oksana Akinshina), Vladimir's orphaned daughter. Kirill tracks Bourne down and shoots him in the shoulder and the two engage in a high-speed car chase which ends with Kirill seriously injured after Bourne smashes his vehicle into a cement divider. Bourne then meets with Irena and confesses to her the truth of her parents deaths and apologizes. Landy uses the tape of Abbott's confession to have Gretkov arrested and later, in New York, receives a phone call from Bourne. She expresses her gratitude for the tape and tells Bourne his real name is David Webb and he was born 4/15/71. Bourne tells her she looks tired, indicating he's currently watching her, then hangs up and disappears into the crowded New York City streets.

Cast

Production

There were no plans to make a sequel to The Bourne Identity (2002) when it was conceived. Matt Damon commented, "When The Bourne Identity came out I said, 'There is very little chance we will do a second film, just because nobody on the team who made the first wants to make another movie if it can't be as good as, or better than, the first one.'" According to producer Frank Marshall, the plot point of Marie's kidnapping to force Bourne back into his assassin persona in the novel The Bourne Supremacy and Bourne's threat to come after the CIA if they came after him again in the previous film, were the inspiration for the plot. Marshall said that screenwriter Tony Gilroy thought of an idea that Bourne "would go on what amounts to the samurai's journey, this journey of atonement." Producer Paul L. Sandberg felt that Gilroy's "veering away from the plot of the book" was necessary "because so much of the world has changed since the book's publication." The producers replaced director Doug Liman. This was mainly due to the difficulties Liman had with the studio when making the first film, and their unwillingness to work with him again. British director Paul Greengrass was selected to direct the film after the producers saw Bloody Sunday (2002), Greengrass' depiction of the Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland, at Gilroy's suggestion. Producer Patrick Crowley liked Greengrass' "sense of the camera as participatory viewer", a visual style Crowley thought would work well for The Bourne Supremacy.[3] The film was shot in reverse order of its settings: some portions of the car chase and the film's ending were shot in Moscow, then most of the rest of the film was shot in and around Berlin, and the opening scenes in Goa were filmed last.[4]

Reception

The Bourne Supremacy grossed $288,500,217.[1] Reviews on Internet critic sites suggest an overall positive disposition towards the film. Rotten Tomatoes scores the film at 82% while Metacritic scores it at 73 out of 100. At the 2005 Taurus World Stunt Awards, veteran Russian stunt coordinator Viktor Ivanov won the "Best Vehicle" award for his driving in the Moscow car chase scene. Dan Bradley, the film's second unit director won the overall award for stunt coordinator.[5] The film ranks 454th on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.[6]

Although the dizzying effects and split second cuts left a lot to be desired, Mark Sells of The Reel Deal gave the film 3 1/2 out of 5 stars, concluding that the end result is "a roller coaster ride of unglamorous sophistication and artful escapes."[7]

Awards

Year Organization Award Category/Recipient Result
2005 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards ASCAP Award Top Box Office Films: John Powell Won[8]
2005 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Saturn Award Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film and Best Actor- Matt Damon Nominated[8]
2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics Choice Award Best Popular Movie Nominated[8]
2005 Cinema Audio Society Awards C.A.S. Award Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures Nominated[8]
2005 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Edgar Best Motion Picture Screenplay Nominated[8]
2005 Empire Awards, UK Empire Award Best Actor- Matt Damon and Best Film Won[8]
2005 Empire Awards, UK Empire Award Best British Director of the Year- Paul Greengrass Nominated[8]
2005 London Critics Circle Film Awards ALFS Award Best British Director- Paul Greengrass and Scene of the Year- the Moscow car chase sequence Nominated[8]
2005 MTV Movie Award MTV Movie Award Best Action Sequence-the Moscow car chase sequence and Best Male Performance- Matt Damon Nominated[8]
2005 Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing in Domestic Features - Dialogue & ADR and Best Sound Editing in Domestic Features - Sound Effects & Foley Nominated[8]
2005 People's Choice Awards, USA People's Choice Award Favorite Movie Drama Nominated[8]
2005 Teen Choice Award Teen Choice Award Choice Movie Actor: Action/Adventure/Thriller-Matt Damon and Choice Movie: Action/Adventure Nominated[8]
2005 USC Scripter Award USC Scripter Award Tony Gilroy (screenwriter) and Robert Ludlum (author) Nominated[8]
2005 World Soundtrack Award World Soundtrack Award Best Original Soundtrack of the Year-John Powell and Soundtrack Composer of the Year-John Powell Nominated[8]
2005 World Stunt Awards Taurus Award Best Stunt Coordinator and/or 2nd Unit Director and Best Work with a Vehicle Won[8]
2005 World Stunt Awards Taurus Award Best Fight- Darrin Prescott and Chris O'Hara Nominated[8]

Soundtrack

Main article: The Bourne Supremacy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

References

  1. ^ a b c "The Bourne Supremacy". boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 6 August 2007.
  2. ^ Bruce Bennett (28 May 2008). "Jason Bourne Takes His Case to MoMA". New York Sun. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
  3. ^ "Picking Up the Thread". Production notes. The Bourne Supremacy (2004). Retrieved on 2010-07-16.
  4. ^ "Setting Bourne's World". Production notes. The Bourne Supremacy (2004). Retrieved on 2010-07-16.
  5. ^ 2007 Taurus World Stunt Awards
  6. ^ Empire Features. Empireonline.com. Retrieved on 2010-08-24.
  7. ^ Sells, Mark. "The Bourne Supremacy: Review". The Reel Deal.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "The Bourne Supremacy (2004) Awards". IMDB.com. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
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