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movie review - Bourne Supremacy

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2006.01.02

This is a worthy successor to the Bourne Identity, which is a rare enough thing for any sequel, but all the more so given that this one was written without the participation of the late author of the original story.

It picks up the story of the refugee couple that was doing all of the running in the first story, and throws into the mix new layers of corruption and CIA machinations. It maintains the same taught style as the original, and if anything ups the sometimes overwhelming desperation and violence.

Recommended.

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... I'll let you in on a secret. Big people are exactly the same as little people. They're selfish, squabbling children whose motivations are jealousy and greed. No one becomes big when the hit adulthood. They just become better at hiding how small they are.

Jonathan Rosenberg