I bought this video to help me learn german, and the product details said that this movie has german for one of the languages and all it acutally has is french and spanish.

This film is really action packed as Jason again tries to find his identity.
The subconscious skill level with which he protects himself and outsmarts those they created him is fascinating and portrays what a human can do with proper training. While I could personally do without the level of violence used in the film it certainly is nowhere near the amount or gratuitous violence one would experience with a Quentin Tarantino film. I would recommend this film if you liked the first one... great sequel!
Peter Anderson

This item arrived in good time and was in excellent condition. I would buy from this person anytime in the future.

I was disappointed to find at least one
scene missing from the DVD. The scene
after Bourne kills the other Treadstone
agent. I keep thinking that there are
other scenes missing.

Others have listed the problems of the
shaky cameras and too close close-ups.
I wish to say I agree with their comments.

Part of the enjoyment of watching the
Bourne Identity was the relationship
between Matt Damon and Franka Potente.
Since they killed her off in the beginning,
they might have brought in someone else
for Damon to relate to.

Since there are more Bourne sequels in
the making, I hope someone is reading the
criticisms listed here and elsewhere and
tries to correct the problems.

Only rarely does a sequel equal its predecessor for entertainment value. Very loosely based on a Robert Ludlum novel, "The Bourne Supremacy" does that, with a breathless stream of action sequences featuring the amnesiac but lethal former CIA assassin Jason Bourne (again played with a pitch-perfect combination of restraint and intensity by Matt Damon).

As the movie opens, Bourne is hiding in a seaside village in India with his girlfriend Marie (Franka Potente from the first movie). He suffers from flashbacks of which he can make no sense, but he and Marie have built a life together.

Four thousand miles away in Berlin, a CIA black operation supervised by CIA Deputy Director Pam Landy (a cooly precise Joan Allen) goes sideways when a mysterious assassin intervenes. A fingerprint left behind leads Landy to Jason Bourne's identity. Landy will mount a major operation to hunt down Bourne, enlisting the aid of TREADSTONE veterans Ward Abbott (Brian Cox) and Nikki Parsons (Julia Stiles) from the first movie.

In India, the mysterious assassin from Berlin materializes to hunt Jason Bourne. He narrowly misses Bourne but kills Marie. A stoic Bourne returns to Europe on a collision course with the CIA and a shady plot involving a Russian oil magnate and a corrupt CIA insider. The action will spin from India to Italy to Berlin and finally to Moscow, where a thrilling car chase will bring Bourne face to face with his Russian nemisis.

The frantic, grainy, realistic cinematic style of the first movie is duplicated here, building suspense fasther than the viewer can worry about plot holes. The core of the movie is Bourne's relentless pursuit of his objective, slowed only by his struggle to make sense of flashbacks and the need to bandage the odd wound. The ending leaves plenty of room for additional sequels.

This DVD version contains some interesting extra features about the making of the movie. "The Bourne Supremacy" is highly recommended as an very entertaining action movie.

i bought this for my husband because he is a matt's fan.
and he has the other movies of the trilogy except this one.

A great follow-up to the original and my favorite of the 3 thus far. One of those rare cases where the sequel surpasses it's predecessor:

-Better action and more suspense
-A Bourne character with more purpose and direction
-a more respectible "suit" on his tail played by Joan Allen
-Another worthy adversary in the form of Karl Urban.
-All around a slick spy movie!

I have not lost my mind. In the absence of any flow of real Christian entertainment coming out of Hollywood, I think it's very important to point out that this is an extraordinarily Christian film. Bourne is fighting evil; Bourne is seeking to discover those who have enmeshed him in what he knows to be evil; and his conscience guides him as he moves through this rapid paced, wonderfully scripted, wonderfully acted, and wonderfully directed film. His motives can never be reduced to mere revenge. Others in the film also wrestle with serious moral issues. But Bourne is the Knight. ----- His mission results in his extracting a moment of recognition from the villain of what the villain has done, and then Bourne proceeds to seek redemption himself in the only way he knows how. He consciously rejects evil for good. ---- Whether Christ is ever mentioned in the film doesn't matter. ----. What matters is that this is a film reflecting deep moral values, and it is also a film you can watch with your children. There is no jarring sexuality, and the violence in the film is actually treated with conscientious respect. It is treated with appropriate depth for the horror that it is. ---- Until we start getting some really profound Christian entertainment from the TV and Movie execs who seem for the moment to scorn it, I think it's important to point out those films which reflect deep Christian values, and to repeat: this film is such a one. I personally love it and have watched it more than four times. The moments of confession and moral recognition are as thrilling as the action. ---- Highly recommended to everybody, including families. --- Just a fine, fine piece of profound and wonderfully exciting work. (Let me add that Matt Damon is terrific here, just as he has been in every film he's ever made.)

When last we saw Jason Bourne in "The Bourne Identity", he'd forgotten who he was, then remembered, maybe, just in time to eliminate as many clues to his continued existence as he could before leaving Paris for a secret life somewhere else (actually, a remote Greek island) with his new love, Maria. The Bourne Supremacy starts a couple of years later and, like TBI, begins in the middle, with Bourne trying to remember what happened in the beginning before escaping at the end.

The initial setting for the action this time is Berlin. Whatever US covert agency is at work appears to be setting up some sort of scam to catch a thief of money, secrets, or both; unfortunately the scam goes bad and the target gets the money and the secrets, leaving only some dead bodies and some clumsy evidence that Jason Bourne is to blame. This time, another wonk is in the mix -- or a wonkette, Pamela Landy (Joan Allen), freshening the machismo with a blast of blonde estrogen. We then catch up with Jason and Maria in Goa, India, where they live in relative safety while Jason starts to unravel a whole new set of recurring nightmares set in Berlin and narrated by Conklin's ghost. Unfortunately, the bad guys have already tracked JB to Goa and head there to rub him out, making it look like he was responsible for the Berlin disaster if no one knows he was still alive first. Jason survives but becomes more resolute to determine why the government is still after him. Landy's built with more integrity than Conklin was, and she suspects the case against Bourne is too pat, learning more about his past in the process (since she wasn't in the first movie). The question then becomes who finds out first what happened in Berlin, and why Bourne was implicated.

To say that TBS is my least favorite of the Bourne trilogy is not to say it isn't a very good film. My biggest beef would be the absence of other "assets" for Bourne to take on, but that's the way the story turned -- Bourne has a fine antagonist in an amoral Russian mercenary (Karll Urban). The foreign settings are fun, and the producers came up with excellent set pieces in Goa and Berlin. But the most memorable part will always be the car chase in Moscow, where things come to a head. Greenglass's direction of this chase puts it in the cream of the crop; it stands up and demands comparison to movies as different as "Bullitt". "The French Connection", and "Ronin", not to mention TBI's chase in Paris. On top of that, Bourne's tutelage by Macguyver pays off as he improvises foot escapes in both Berlin and Russia. Finally, the movie delivers the trilogy's best "Depends" moment.

One of the most famous, or infamous, aspects of this film and TBU is the hand-held camera work of Greenglass. In a theater, this movie is most effectively viewed closer to the center of the screen. That's less important in TBS than TBU, in my opinion. For home viewing, even on what passes for a small screen nowadays (mine is 32 inches) the camera work doesn't interfere with the movie.

The Bourne Supremacy delivers on its promise to keep Bourne in action through some tight stories and tighter curves. If it's not the greatest movie in the series, that's just because it's stuck between two great bookends.

I'm happy with this movie, and have watched it a few times. The action sequences are fun, the storyline is consuming, and Matt Damon is actually a good actor (unlike Ben Affleck...). I actually bought this as the trilogy set... the picture quality is very good, and audio is powerful if you have a good 5.1 setup, and the movie never feels like it's dragging on. Well worth watching, regardless of format.

Second installment continues the story line. The characters are complex, and very interesting. The HD DVD quality is not good because of the technology used at the time of filming. However it is better than standard definition and worth the investment if you do not have standard DVD version in your collection.

This movie was great cause he did my wife. Who care about afleck anyway.

One of the best movies despite being absolutely nothing like the book.

****1/2

I am late getting on the "Bourne" bandwagon. I just watched the first two films in the series for the first time last weekend after years of avoiding them. My impression? That so far, the "Bourne" films deserve all of the praise and success that they've received.

What we have here is an intelligent, engrossing, well-written, well-acted and well-directed action film that can be enjoyed by families and mainstream audiences, but that doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence. I have to give props ... pulling that off is not easy to do.

In the second film of the series, "The Bourne Supremacy", Jason Bourne finds that, despite the fact that he still can't recall most of it, he cannot escape his past. Although managing for two years to live in seclusion with his girlfriend, he is drawn back into the violent world he tried to escape when he is hunted down by another "Treadstone" agent, who fails to murder Bourne but kills his girlfriend. (The underwater scene where Jason watches Marie's lifeless body float away is tender and beautifully sad). Bourne is then framed by the same corrupt CIA agent (Brian Cox) who used to run the "Treadstone" program that created Bourne, and Jason is forced to prove his innocence while still trying to figure out his past.

Matt Damon is the thinking man's action hero, and a complete departure from the stereotypically cocky, wisecracking American hero type. In action, Bourne is precise, powerful and unstoppable, but when he's not, Damon plays him with the stoic vulnerability of a man who wants desperately to escape the violent past he can barely remember. When Bourne tracks down the offspring of a politician he assassinated in his former life, the scene is heartbreakingly restrained. Bravo.

This movie is for me, to be rated in lots of ways. It's an action film, a suspense film, a Thriller film, an adventure film all rolled into one film. This movie was way better than the first movie. It's a very intelligent kind of movie. The main character, Bourne, is very intelligent himself also. This movie moves at a good pace and holds your interest intently. I almost liked it better than a James Bond Movie. I am very glad I added this movie to my collection of movies. You've got to buy this one.

Great movie, and in stunning full HD, "Supremacy" picks up where "Identity" leaves off.

The only quirk I have with this movie is some of the chosen direction in fight sequences, at times, nausiating. I suppose it gives the movie a faster pace, look and feel, but also isn't too distracting.

The picture and sound make up for any shortcomings. Blacks in night scenes are jet black, no film grain is evident. Flesh tones accurate and true to life.

This is a great moderm film trilogy for any action genre fan. Complex story lines keep you thinking and entertained.

Highly recommended, and a must see before viewing "Ultimatum", the last in trilogy.

Jason Bourne leaves you on the edge of your seat again as he continues to unravel the mystery of his past. A better investment for your dollar than the latest 007 drivel.

If I click on a Blu Ray or HD DVD product, I do NOT want to have to sift through 500 reviews of people who own a DVD or even VHS version of the film.

Why are you mixing these reviews together???

I like the character, I like the plot, but You WILL get nauseous trying to watch this movie! The videotography is terrible. The camera shakes all over the place. What is with some directors. I can hold my Sony camcorder a lot more steady. Ug! is the next sequeal as poorly filmed? I am hesitant to try it.

The second movie of the Jason Bourne Trilogy is also the second best of the three.Action packed and edge of your seat.If you like the first one you will like this one also.

This movie is a great sequel to Bourne Identity. You will enjoy the whole story line and love the action as well. Sit down and watch all 3 of the movies together and don't forget the popcorn. Matt Damon turns out a surprising performance.

This was a fun movie. I like Matt Damon, too, which was a plus. The story is great and it keeps moving all the time. If you like action, you should like this film.

This being the second installment of the trilogy of Bourne films, this movie is pretty much a continuation of the first film. The story takes place about 2 years after the end of the first movie, where we find Jason Bourne trying to have a life of his own, but when he subquently gets dragged back into danger, the chase is on, and Bourne is out to find his own kind of justice, and once again trying to find who he is. Of course, new characters are introduced, this time its Pam Landy (played by Joan Allen) who is trying to chase down Bourne, and new twists and turns in the story begin to unfold. Much like the first film, what makes this film the most entertaining is the pacing. There's not a lot of dull parts here, and the chase scenes are pretty good. Though there are some complaints about the shaking hand-held camera work during some these scenes, some say it makes the film more real and gritty. For me, the camera work didn't bother that much, but I could understand how some may not like it. I really don't have anything that negative to say about the film. The acting, the story, and the editing are all good. As far as being better that The Bourne Identity, well..it's close, but not quite. But if you liked the The Bourne Identity, there's really no good reason why you wouldn't enjoy this one.

This was a good movie that linked the two better movies of Identity and Ultimatum. Great action. Period.

Continued story-line with great casting, action and suspense. Main character shows those who are after him whose really in charge!

My 19-year-old son doesn't go for trends and obsessions. So, when home from college on this Christmas break, he agrees to spend two hours with us around the second of his preferred triad of films, we seize the moment by its skinny little cinematic throat.

Two hours later ... Wow!

Matt Damon's 'Jason Bourne' won't go away from the stained recall of compromised CIA operatives and Russian oil cartel-istas, won't go away from an amnesiac operative's self-identification-screen to let him get back to his original self, and now won't go away from our home-movie enthusiasm.

Bring on the prequel, let us have the sequel! I see some quick Amazon orders of used DVDs in our (very near) future.

The plot will be well-known to readers of this review or, alternatively, available from myriad reviews. Let me point my minutes at softer targets:

(a) The pace: this movie you up from start to finish. There is not a moment to rest. Plot-challenged viewers like this reviewer will want to make careful mental note of the spare fingerprint and such.

(b) The music: John Powell's soundtrack cooperates beautifully with the plot. If you normally experience film music merely at the subliminal level, this would be a good film on which to bring it up the level of consciousness. I plan to buy (and review) the soundtrack. 'Very strong music.

(c) Acting: Damon is superb. But don't miss Brian Cox as the tortured and slightly repugnant Ward Abbot, who just wants to enjoy his hard-earned influence for another year before retiring to a couple of consultancies. His life is oddly interrupted (and then, for that matter, ended) by the stubborn researches of Pamela Landy. Pay attention to this strong support role too, ably performed by the intensely attractive Joan Allen.

I need to end this review now, perhaps a bit prematurely. I need to go get two other movies!

A fast paced zippy action film. The director shoots the movie like you are experiencing the events that Jason Bourne is experiencing. The whole movie has a real life edgy feel to it due to the fact that no steadycam was used so the camera keeps shaking and gives you this documentary real life feel to it. There are very few dolly shots in the movies, it all with handheld camera. The camera is placed in specific angles and hard to reach places like the inside of the car so that you feel a lot like being in Jason's seat. The extras feature have quite a bit on how they shot the chase scene, the fight moves and the special car rig that they built to get the shots. The car chase scene is one of the greatest chases captured on film. It's hard and fast and ends with full impact. The movie does not follow the book. Ludlum's novels Bourne - Identity, Supremacy and Ultimatum document his life as he grows old in fact in Ultimatum if I am not mistaken he is a senior citizen with kids and grand kids. The movie version takes book 1 and expands on it and uses the Bourne franchise name. I have no problem with that. The books as it were would not have worked in the medium of film. Good action flick. Watch Bourne always outsmart the CIA. Watch Bourne Ultimatum whih is an episodic continuation and end to this successful series.

regards, Vikram

Better than the original is something not too many series can do. This one does so pick it up along with the other two today on HD DVD.

A good second movie but just lacked the umph of the first movie. I always hate it when they kill off a MAIN character. If they hadn't gotten rid of her then might have given it one more star. THe excitement is still there and the story line is still good.

I hated this movie, loved the 1st but hated this one, why? you may ask, here's why: the camera. the camera jumped & jiggled so much during the fights you couldn't tell what was going on, & it's an action movie which you watch for the fighting, right? well if you aren't able to see what happened it's basically just an action movie without action. plus the final fight was a car chase, how stupid is that? I was hoping to see some premium assassin on assassin fighting but instead I get a car chase with horrible camera movement

All in all, I quite liked this movie. Some reviewers seem to be complaining about the camera work. I honestly can't say it bothered me. I can see what they were going for: a documentary / "you're there" feel, which I think works. Alot of people seem to be pretty upset about it, but I get the feeling these people get upset about alot of little things (clicky pens for example?) :)

Someone also said the plot was unnecessarily confusing. I have to disagree. If anything it's been dumb-downed a bit from the book, though you can only fit so much into a movie, as always.

So I suppose there are two types of people who should avoid these movies: the irritable and the easily confused.

If you can handle a little plot, and love action, I highly recommend this movie and the others in the series!

The Bourne Supremacy


The Borne Supremacy takes over where the Bourne Identity left off. Jason Borne played by Matt Damon is still searching for his true identity and why someone is out to kill him. One thing leads to another and Jason finds himself in Berlin. A truly good action adventure. I wonder if it was an accident that Robert Ludlum chose a name with the same initials as Fleming's James Bond?
Highly recommended for Ludlum fans and for fans of high adventure.

Gunner October, 2007

The first sequel to a successful movie is always iffy. So many have fallen by the wayside, and sequels don't hold much credibility these days, with CGI and gimmicky concepts, especially when Hollywood is churning them when they're not even necessary.

But Bourne Identity needed a sequel, to carry on the story of Jason Bourne, to see if he recovers anymore of his memory. Two years after the first finished, Jason & Marie are in India, living off the grid, enjoying life and each other. Until something tragic happens, and Jason is once more on the run, running from himself, and discovering on the way, that he's been framed for two murders. He's still having recurring nightmares, and is still trying to piece together his former life.

The action scenes are absolutely stunning, an amazing follow up to Identity, with an even better car chase than the original, in a taxi, which soon gets wrecked. Bourne even surpasses himself, when in Identity, he fought an enemy with a pen, he now fights an enemy with a rolled up newspaper!

I'm still disappointed at Julia Stiles' screen time in this, a gripe which has carried on from Identity. While she has marginally more screen time than the first, it's still not enough for a great actress as she is, trying to spreak her wings past her teenage film roles. Brian Cox has a little bit more revealed about his character, and all is not what it seems with him!

Supremacy is an excellent follow up to an already excellent original movie, and I look forward to seeing exactly what happens to Bourne in Ultimatium. I hope everything is resolved nicely. It's quite strange, because the end of Ultimatium is actually shown at the end of Supremacy, a strange tactic, but something that leaves the viewers wanting more.

Crisply directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, this film offers almost constant high-speed action. As in The Bourne Identity, the young protagonist suffers from amnesia. His nightmares, hallucinations, and mini-epiphanies have yet to reveal all that he wants to know about himself and especially his past. He does know, however, that he was once involved as a highly-skilled assassin in a "black ops" project (code name Treadstone) sponsored by the C.I.A. As this sequel begins, Bourne and companion Maria Kreutz (Franka Potente) are happily settled in a seaside village in India, presumably out of harm's way. And then....

Tony Gilroy's screenplay is based on the second of three novels written by Robert Ludlum which comprise "The Bourne Trilogy." The acting by members of the supporting cast (notably Joan Allen and Brian Cox) is consistently first-rate. Credit Oliver Wood and Dominic Watkins with the cinematography and production design which recreate violent, often deadly encounters in various locations through which Bourne flees or pursues his adversaries. He eventually establishes his "supremacy" but at a substantial cost as the film ends. I now await the adaptation of The Bourne Ultimatum, hopeful that it sustains the same high level of quality in terms of storytelling, acting, and production values. That said, I agree with others who have noted the lack of variety in the pace of plot in The Bourne Supremacy, and, the need for character development in greater depth. On balance, however, I think this is a highly entertaining film.

Had been looking to add this to my collection of movies. Search around at brick an mortar stores but none were available. Checked on Amazon, good price and ordered it. One month later I finally received it. I shipped from northern California to Southern California and took over 3 weeks. Not impressed with Amazons shipping methods and time.

Credit to director Paul Greengrass, this film maintains the high standard set by the Bourne Identity. Matt Damon reprises his role as the ex-hitman with amnesia, this time framed for a CIA mission that goes wrong.

The rest of the cast are good with the always reliable Brian Cox putting in another top class performance. Unlike say the Transporter movies there is an edge of realism that puts this movie in a different league from most Hollywood action films. That said most of us have no idea what is going on in the world of the CIA/MI6 etc, so whether this bares any relation to reality is I suppose irrelevent. However last year somebody was poisoned with a radioactive isotope in a London Hotel, so nothing seems that far fetched these days!

This is a fast-paced and gripping film that will keep you well entertained for all of its 108mins.