The Bourne Supremacy (film)

The Bourne Supremacy
Directed by	Paul Greengrass
Written by	Screenplay: Tony Gilroy Brian Helgeland (uncredited) Novel: Robert Ludlum
Produced by	Patrick Crowley Frank Marshall Paul L. Sandberg Doug Liman
Starring	Matt Damon Franka Potente Brian Cox Julia Stiles Karl Urban Gabriel Mann Joan Allen
Cinematography	Oliver Wood
Edited by	Christopher Rouse Rick Pearson
Music by	John Powell
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	July 23, 2004
Running time	108 min.
Languages	English, Russian, German, Italian
Budget	$75 million
Box office	$288,500,217

The Bourne Supremacy is a 2004 spy mystery thriller film loosely based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name. The film was directed by Paul Greengrass, written by Tony Gilroy and Brian Helgeland and produced by Doug Liman and Frank Marshall. Universal Studios released the film to theaters in the United States on July 23, 2004 and it received a positive critical and public reaction similar to its predecessor, The Bourne Identity. The film is followed by a 2007 sequel entitled The Bourne Ultimatum.

The Bourne Supremacy continues the story of Jason Bourne, an amnesiac and former CIA assassin played by Matt Damon, and 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.

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 a Berlin hotel. 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 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. Bourne manages to swim away undetected, leaving Marie dead in the river (after unsuccessful mouth-to-mouth resuscitation). 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. 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, Landy flies to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia to find out more information. In Virginia, she learns that it is Bourne's fingerprint, 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 files. A Russian politician, Vladimir Neski, 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 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 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, who tells him that the project was shut down following Conklin's death. 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 slows down the police and allows Jason to escape. Landy and Abbott intercept and debrief Nicky Parsons, Treadstone's handler in Paris. Bourne arranges to meet Nicky, whom he interrogates. He learns that Abbott was the head of Treadstone, not Conklin. Upon hearing their conversation over Nicky's transmitter, Landy begins to believe that Bourne is being framed. When Abbott's young associate Danny Zorn tells Abbott that he thinks Bourne was framed, along with having evidence to prove he was, Abbott kills him to silence this information. Bourne goes back to the Brecker Hotel in Berlin and remembers more about the Neski mission: he was sent to kill Neski on Conklin's orders; and when Neski's wife unexpectedly showed up, he shot both of them and made it look like a murder-suicide. Bourne then learns that Abbott and Gretkov stole the money, and that Abbott had ordered Kirill to kill Bourne, Neski's murder, the murder of the agents by Kirill, and the planted fingerprint.

Out of respect for Marie's belief in non-violence, Bourne spares Abbott's life. After Zorn's body is discovered, Landy confronts Abbott, who commits suicide. Landy later receives the tape Bourne recorded which implicates Abbott in the conspiracy. Bourne travels to Moscow, where he is shot and wounded by Kirill. After an extended car chase, Bourne forces Kirill's car to crash into a concrete divider in a tunnel. Kirill is shown to be extensively injured and incapacitated, and presumably dies. (This is later confirmed in the next film, where Marie's brother asks if Bourne killed him.) Gretkov is arrested by Russian police after Landy provides them with the evidence she got from Bourne. Bourne goes to the apartment of Vladimir Neski's daughter so she won't have to live thinking her mother killed her father. He admits that he killed them both on a mission gone wrong, and apologizes. The final scene (which actually takes place during the events of the next film "The Bourne Ultimatum" in which it is shown) 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 tape, which the CIA has used to settle matters concerning his frame-up, she tells Bourne his real name (David Webb), birth date (April 15, 1971) and place of birth (Nixon, MO). Bourne declines Landy's offer to come back to the CIA offices in person, and he fades into a crowded street scene.

Cast

• Matt Damon as Jason Bourne: an amnesiac and former assassin of the CIA's Operation Treadstone.
• Joan Allen as Pamela Landy: a CIA Deputy Director and Task Force Chief, pursues Bourne after her operation goes badly.
• Brian Cox as Ward Abbott: a CIA Deputy Director formerly in charge of Treadstone.
• Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons: formerly Bourne's Treadstone contact; she is taken from her post-Treadstone assigment 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.
• Gabriel Mann as Danny Zorn: formerly assigned to Treadstone headquarters, is now on Abbott's staff.
• Tomas Arana as Martin Marshall: CIA Director.
• Tom Gallop as Tom Cronin: Landy's righthand agent.
• Michelle Monaghan as Kim: Landy's number two agent.
• Oksana Akinshina as Irena Neski: daughter of politician Vladimir Neski, whom Bourne killed.

Reaction

The Bourne Supremacy grossed $288,500,217. 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, an often criticized stylistic choice which carries on with The Bourne Ultimatum. However, some reviewers have said this gives "a gritty, realistic feel". Despite these criticisms, Rotten Tomatoes scores the film at 82 percent. 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. The film ranks 454th on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.

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.

Awards

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

Soundtrack

Main article: The Bourne Supremacy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

External links

• Official website
• The Bourne Supremacy at IMDb
• The Bourne Supremacy at Rotten Tomatoes