The Bourne Supremacy (film)

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The Bourne Supremacy
Directed by	Paul Greengrass
Produced by	Patrick Crowley Frank Marshall Paul L. Sandberg Doug Liman
Written by	Screenplay: Tony Gilroy Brian Helgeland (uncredited) Novel: Robert Ludlum
Starring	Matt Damon Franka Potente Brian Cox Julia Stiles Karl Urban Gabriel Mann Joan Allen
Music by	John Powell
Cinematography	Oliver Wood
Editing by	Christopher Rouse Rick Pearson
Distributed by	Universal Studios
Release date(s)	23 July 2004
Running time	108 min.
Language	English, Russian, German, Italian
Budget	$75 million[1]
Gross revenue	$288,500,217[1]
Preceded by	The Bourne Identity
Followed by	The Bourne Ultimatum

The Bourne Supremacy is a 2004 spy mystery thriller film. The title comes from the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name, but the film's plot is completely different (even contradictory) to the plot of the book. The title was used because it is a sequel to The Bourne Identity (the film of the same name had some basing on the book). The film was directed by Paul Greengrass, written by Tony Gilroy and Brian Helgeland^[2] and produced by Doug Liman and Frank Marshall. Universal Pictures released the film to theaters in the United States on 23 July 2004 and it received a positive critical and public reaction similar to its predecessor, The Bourne Identity. The film was followed by a 2007 sequel entitled The Bourne Ultimatum.

The Bourne Supremacy continues the story of Jason Bourne, a former CIA assassin from their Special Activities Division suffering from psychogenic amnesia.^[3] Bourne is portrayed by Matt Damon. The film focuses on his attempt to learn more of his shadowy past as he is once more enveloped in a conspiracy surrounding the CIA and Operation Treadstone. The film also stars Franka Potente as Marie Helena Kreutz, Brian Cox as Ward Abbott, Joan Allen as Pamela Landy and Julia Stiles as Nicolette Parsons.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Reaction 3.1 Awards 4 Soundtrack 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Plot

Two years after the events in The Bourne Identity, Bourne and his girlfriend, Marie Kreutz, are living in Goa, India. Bourne is beginning to recover some of his memories, and he is troubled by disjointed flashbacks of an assassination he carried out in The Brecker Hotel in Berlin. Meanwhile, in Berlin, a CIA officer under Deputy Director Pamela Landy is trading $3 million for the "Neski Files", documents about the theft of $20 million from the CIA seven years earlier. During the exchange, a Russian assassin named Kirill arrives to intercept the selling. He plants two bombs in the basement electrical circuit: one on the main and the other on a subline with Jason Bourne's fingerprint. The bomb on the main line kills the power while Kirill kills the agent and the source, and steals the files and money, which he gives to Russian oil magnate Yuri Gretkov.

Kirill then travels to Goa to kill Bourne, but Bourne spots him first and flees with Marie. As Bourne and Marie are driving away, Kirill fires a sniper rifle at the car that kills Marie, and the car veers off the bridge they are on into a river. Kirill leaves, believing that he killed Bourne. After escaping the car submerged underwater, Bourne tries to give Marie mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. After several unsuccessful attempts, he realizes much to his despair that Marie is dead and reluctantly lets her go. Bourne manages to swim away undetected. He then burns all of Marie's passports and pictures except for one picture showing both of them in an embrace. He also clears the house they lived in, taking all of the notes that Bourne used to dictate his dreams. After retrieving his passports and cash, Bourne travels to Italy to learn why he is again being targeted.

After Landy's team finds the planted fingerprint and determines that it is linked to the CIA's secret Treadstone project to which Landy has no access, Landy flies to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia to find out more information. In Virginia, after getting clearance from CIA Director Martin Marshall, she learns that the fingerprint belongs to Bourne, but CIA chief Ward Abbott claims he does not know Bourne's whereabouts. Landy tells Abbott that the CIA agent who is believed to have stolen the $20 million was named in the stolen "Neski" files. Vladimir Neski, a Russian politician, was going to identify the thief, but before he could do so, he was murdered by his wife in a Berlin hotel, who then committed suicide. Landy believes Bourne killed the CIA officer and the recent source in Berlin, so Abbott and Landy set out to capture him.

When Bourne arrives in Naples, Italy, he is detained by an Italian Carabinieri officer and a CIA interrogator, but Bourne without much effort incapacitates the two men and after copying the agent's SIM card on his own cell phone, escapes. This allows Bourne to listen in on a call from Landy; he learns her name and phone number, and finds out that he is suspected in the recent killings in Berlin. He steals a car and heads to Munich, where he interrogates the last remaining Treadstone agent Jarda at his house. Jarda tells him that the project was shut down following Conklin's death. Jarda says that he thought Bourne was there to kill him and Bourne quickly realizes that Jarda has called for backup. Bourne tries to take Jarda hostage but Jarda resists. They have a struggle in which Bourne emerges victorious by strangling Jarda. He creates a leak in the house's natural gas valve and puts a magazine into the toaster to create an explosion that stops the backup agents that Jarda called and allows Jason to escape.

Landy and Abbott travel to Amsterdam to intercept and debrief Bourne's contact from Treadstone in Paris, Nicky Parsons. Landy decides that Nicky is a crucial source of information and takes Nicky to Berlin. Meanwhile, Bourne drives from Munich to Berlin and stops at the airport. Bourne tracks down Landy to the Berlin Westin Hotel. Upon arriving at the hotel, Bourne learns Landy's room number and waits for her to exit. He follows her to the Berlin CIA substation and then takes a position on the roof of the building across the street. Bourne then sets up a sniper rifle and after getting Landy in his sights, calls her by phone and asks her if she's now running Treadstone. After putting the call on loud speakers, Landy tells him that Treadstone is shut down and that she's after him because he killed her agents. Bourne spots Nicky in Landy's Operations Room and says that he wants to come in but will only come in with someone he trusts. He tells Landy of a girl in Paris who handled logistics for Treadstone and to have her meet him at a designated place. Landys says she's not sure if she can contact this girl. Bourne tells Landy it should be easy since the girl is standing right next to her. Everyone in the room is startled as they look out the windows for Bourne but don't see him. Landy decides to have Nicky meet Bourne to which Abbott objects. Later at the designated meeting place, Bourne manages to take a wired Nicky from under the noses of Landy and her agents and interrogate her. He learns that Abbott was the head of Treadstone, not Conklin. He then has flashbacks of his first job as an assasin that place him in Berlin and asks Nicky when was he last in Berlin. Nicky tells him he was never in Berlin. Bourne tells her his first job was in Berlin to which Nicky replies that his first job was in Geneva. Frustrated, Bourne violently shoves Nicky and puts a gun to her head telling her he knows he was in Berlin before. As Nicky begs for her life, Bourne spares her and leaves.

Upon hearing their conversation over Nicky's transmitter, Landy begins to believe that Bourne is being framed. Later, Bourne goes online and Googles news footage of the circumstances in Neski's death and learns that he was killed at the Brecker Hotel in Berlin. Bourne then goes to the hotel and asks for the same room Neski and his wife were killed in but is told the room is occupied. After getting the room across the hall instead, Bourne breaks into the Neski room. Bourne immediately begins having flashbacks upon seeing the room. He remembers hiding in the room waiting for Neski and then Neski's wife also entering the room. He also remembers shooting Neski and then his wife and placing the murder weapon in Neski's wife's dead hand. At that moment, he remembers everything and then looks at himself in a mirror as if seeing what he truly is for the first time. Meanwhile, the police hand the concierge a wanted poster with Bourne's picture, and he tells them what room Bourne registered in, and they immediately go after him. The police break into the room across the hall, which is the room Bourne registered for. Hearing this, Bourne escapes out of a window and up a drainage pipe. Meanwhile, at the CIA substation, Danny Zorn tells Abbott that he has something to show him privately. Zorn and Abbott return to the scene where Landy's agents were assasinated and points out evidence that Bourne was perhaps framed, during which Abbott stabs Zorn, killing him presumably to suppress Zorns new information. Landy and Cronin receive information about a Bourne sighting at the nearby Brecker Hotel and immediately go there.

Meanwhile, Bourne leads the police on a whirlwind footchase through the streets of Berlin and narrowly escapes. Landy and Cronin arrive at the room that Bourne was in at the Brecker, and Landy immediately recognizes the room from news footage as the room Neski and his wife were killed in. At that moment, Landy reasons that Neski's wife didn't kill him after all. Abbott arrives at the Brecker, and after other agents brief him, he leaves and goes back to the Westin hotel. As Landy and Cronin prepare to leave the Brecker, another agent informs them that the police have found Zorn's body. Landy immediately suspects Abbott, and after placing Cronin in charge of tracking Bourne, goes to confront Abbott. Meanwhile in his hotel room, in a panic, Abbott calls Gretkov and tells him that Bourne is still alive, and that if he does't kill him, they will both be implicated in the theft of the $20 million. After telling Abbott he was basically on his own, Gretkov simply hangs up the phone. At that moment, Bourne steps out of the shadows after having heard and recorded Abbott's conversation with Gretkov. Bourne then confronts Abbott, who admits he arranged for Bourne to be killed and actually tries to blame Bourne for Marie dying instead. Bourne is tempted to kill Abbott, who tries to goad Bourne into killing him, but out of respect for Marie's belief in nonviolence, Bourne spares Abbott's life. Bourne however places a handgun on Abbott's desk and reveals the tape recorder. Later Landy arrives at Abbotts room and confronts Abbott, who points Bourne's gun at her. After saying he has no remorse for his actions, Abbott puts the gun to his head and commits suicide.

Bourne travels to Moscow to find Neski's daughter. He goes to her last known address and gets the new address from the girl's former landlady. The police, after being made aware of Bourne's presence in Moscow, track Bourne down. After evading the police he is shot and wounded by Kirill, who had been told by Gretkov that Bourne was alive and in Moscow. After an extended car chase in which he escapes the NSB and the police, Bourne forces Kirill's car to crash into a concrete divider in a tunnel. Kirill is shown to be extensively injured and incapacitated. Bourne watches as Kirill dies. Hearing police sirens, Bourne then slowly walks away.

Gretkov is arrested by Russian police after Landy provides them with the taped evidence she got from Bourne. Meanwhile in Moscow, Neskis daughter returns to her apartment only to find a badly injured Jason Bourne sitting in her living room. After Bourne reassures her that he didn't want to hurt her, he reveals to her that it was he and not her mother who killed her father, and that he killed both her parents. He told her it was his job, and that her mother wasn't supposed to be there. He reveals the reason he told her is that she should know that her mother didn't kill her father and that knowing this information changes things. His voice wavers when he thinks of Marie and says "When what you love is taken from you....you would want to know the truth." He then aplologizes to the girl, who's now in tears, and leaves.

The final scene (later revealed to take place during The Bourne Ultimatum) jumps to New York City, where Bourne contacts Landy to ask why the CIA is still looking for him. After Landy thanks Bourne for supplying the Abbott tape, which the CIA has used to settle matters concerning his frame-up, she tells Bourne his real name (David Webb), birth date (15 April 1971) and place of birth (Nixa, MO). Bourne declines Landy's offer to come back to the CIA offices in person; he fades into a crowded street scene, but not before having told Pamela Landy that she needed rest as she was looking tired to indicate that he was once again close by and looking directly at her. Startled, Landy turns around in her office and stares out at thousands of windows, not knowing where Bourne was looking on from.

The DVD contains an alternate ending for the film. It has Bourne collapsing in the Moscow park after confessing to Neski's daughter, waking up in a hospital, and being told his real name by Landy, before he escapes.

[edit] Cast

• Matt Damon as Jason Bourne: an amnesiac and former paramilitary assassin of the CIA's Operation Treadstone (which is most similar to their storied Special Activities Division).
• Joan Allen as Pamela Landy: a CIA Deputy Director and Task Force Chief, pursues Bourne after he is implicated in the deaths of two of her operatives in a recent op.
• Brian Cox as Ward Abbott: a CIA Deputy Director formerly in charge of Treadstone who wants Bourne dead.
• Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons: formerly handled logistics for Treadstone and was Bourne's contact in Paris; she is taken from her post-Treadstone assignment to assist in the search for Bourne.
• Marton Csokas as Jarda: a former Treadstone operative based out of Munich.
• Karl Urban as Kirill: a Russian secret service agent and an expert assassin who is working for Gretkov.
• Karel Roden as Gretkov: Kirill's employer.
• Franka Potente as Marie Helena Kreutz: Bourne's girlfriend who is killed when Kirill comes for Bourne.
• Gabriel Mann as Danny Zorn: formerly Conklin's righthand man, is now on Abbott's staff.
• Tomas Arana as Martin Marshall: CIA Director who authorizes the hunt for Bourne.
• Tom Gallop as Tom Cronin: Landy's righthand agent.
• Michelle Monaghan as Kim: Landy's number two agent.
• Oksana Akinshina as Irena Neski: teenaged daughter of politician Vladimir Neski, who along with his wife, was killed by Bourne.

[edit] Reaction

The Bourne Supremacy grossed $288,500,217.^[1] Reviews on Internet critic sites suggest an overall positive disposition towards the film, though the film was criticized for its shaky camera work, which has made various action scenes difficult to see,^[4] an often criticized stylistic choice which carries on with The Bourne Ultimatum.^[5] However, some reviewers have said this gives "a gritty, realistic feel".^[6] Despite these criticisms, Rotten Tomatoes scores the film at 82 percent.^[7] 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.^[8] The film ranks 454th on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.^[9]

[edit] Awards

Year	Organization	Award	Category/Recipient	Result
2005	ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards	ASCAP Award	Top Box Office Films: John Powell	Won[10]
2005	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Saturn Award	Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film and Best Actor- Matt Damon	Nominated[10]
2005	Broadcast Film Critics Association	Critics Choice Award	Best Popular Movie	Nominated[10]
2005	Cinema Audio Society Awards	C.A.S. Award	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures	Nominated[10]
2005	Edgar Allan Poe Awards	Edgar	Best Motion Picture Screenplay	Nominated[10]
2005	Empire Awards, UK	Empire Award	Best Actor- Matt Damon and Best Film	Won[10]
2005	Empire Awards, UK	Empire Award	Best British Director of the Year- Paul Greengrass	Nominated[10]
2005	London Critics Circle Film Awards	ALFS Award	Best British Director- Paul Greengrass and Scene of the Year- the Moscow car chase sequence	Nominated[10]
2005	MTV Movie Award	MTV Movie Award	Best Action Sequence-the Moscow car chase sequence and Best Male Performance- Matt Damon	Nominated[10]
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[10]
2005	People's Choice Awards, USA	People's Choice Award	Favorite Movie Drama	Nominated[10]
2005	Teen Choice Award	Teen Choice Award	Choice Movie Actor: Action/Adventure/Thriller-Matt Damon and Choice Movie: Action/Adventure	Nominated[10]
2005	USC Scripter Award	USC Scripter Award	Tony Gilroy (screenwriter) and Robert Ludlum (author)	Nominated[10]
2005	World Soundtrack Award	World Soundtrack Award	Best Original Soundtrack of the Year-John Powell and Soundtrack Composer of the Year-John Powell	Nominated[10]
2005	World Stunt Awards	Taurus Award	Best Stunt Coordinator and/or 2nd Unit Director and Best Work with a Vehicle	Won[10]
2005	World Stunt Awards	Taurus Award	Best Fight- Darrin Prescott and Chris O'Hara	Nominated[10]

[edit] Soundtrack

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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