| The Bourne Supremacy | |
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| Directed by | Paul Greengrass |
| Screenplay by | Tony Gilroy |
| Based on | The Bourne Supremacy byRobert Ludlum |
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| Cinematography | Oliver Wood |
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| Music by | John Powell |
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Running time | 108 minutes[4] |
| Country | United States[1][2] |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $75–85 million[5][6] |
| Box office | $311 million[6] |
The Bourne Supremacy is a 2004 Americanaction-thriller film starringMatt Damon asRobert Ludlum's characterJason Bourne, a former CIA assassin suffering frompsychogenic amnesia trying to learn more of his past when he is enveloped in a conspiracy involving the CIA and Treadstone.Franka Potente,Brian Cox,Julia Stiles,Karl Urban,Gabriel Mann, andJoan Allen also star. Based on thenovel of the same name,[a] it is a direct sequel toThe Bourne Identity (2002), and was directed byPaul Greengrass and written byTony Gilroy.
The film premiered atArcLight Hollywood on July 15, 2004, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 23 byUniversal Pictures. It received positive reviews and was a commercial success, grossing $311 million on a $75–85 million budget. A sequel,The Bourne Ultimatum, was released in 2007.
Jason Bourne and Marie Kreutz are living inGoa, India. He is still suffering from amnesia, so he records flashbacks about his life as aCIA assassin in a notebook.
In Berlin, a CIA agent working forDeputy Director Pamela Landy is paying $3 million to an unnamed Russian source for the Neski files, documents on the theft of $20 million seven years prior. The deal is interrupted by Kirill, a RussianFederal Security Service agent who works for oligarch Yuri Gretkov. He kills the agent and source, steals the files and money, and plants fingerprints framing Bourne for the attack.
After finding Bourne's fingerprint, Landy asks Section Chief Ward Abbott aboutOperation Treadstone, the defunct CIA program to which Bourne belonged. She tells Abbott that the CIA agent who stole the $20 million was named in the Neski files. Some years ago, Russian politician Vladimir Neski was about to identify the thief when he was killed by his wife in a suspected murder-suicide in Berlin. Landy believes that Bourne and Treadstone's late supervisor, Alexander Conklin, were involved and that Bourne killed the Neskis.
Gretkov directs Kirill to Goa to kill Bourne, who flees with Marie; Kirill follows and kills her, unaware that they switched seats in the midst of the chase. Bourne leaves Goa and travels to Naples, where he allows himself to be identified by security. He subdues aDiplomatic Security agent and aCarabinieri guard andcopies the SIM card from his cell phone. From the subsequent phone call, he learns about Landy and the frame job.
Bourne goes to Munich to visit Jarda, the only other remaining Treadstone operative. Jarda informs him Treadstone was shut down after Conklin's death, then attacks him; Bourne strangles him to death, before destroying his home in a gas explosion as agents move in.
Bourne follows Landy and Abbott to Berlin as they meet former Treadstone support technician Nicky Parsons to question her about Bourne. Bourne believes the CIA is hunting him again and calls Landy from a nearby roof. He demands a meet-up with Nicky and indicates to Landy that he can see her in the office.
Bourne kidnaps Nicky inAlexanderplatz and learns from her that Abbott had been Conklin's boss. He releases her after she reveals she knows nothing about the mission. Bourne then visits the hotel where the killing took place and recalls more of his mission: he killed Neski on Conklin's orders, and when Neski's wife showed up, he shot her and made it look like a murder-suicide.
Danny Zorn, Conklin's former assistant, finds inconsistencies in the report of Bourne's involvement with the death of the agent and explains his theory to Abbott. Abbott then kills Zorn to prevent him from informing Landy. Bourne breaks into Abbott's hotel room and records a conversation between him and Gretkov that incriminates them in the theft of the $20 million. When confronted, Abbott admits to Bourne that he stole the money, ordered Kirill to retrieve the files, and had Bourne framed before arranging for him to be silenced in Goa.
Abbott expects Bourne to kill him, but Bourne refuses, saying Marie would not want him to, and puts a gun on the table and leaves. Landy confronts Abbott about her suspicions and he kills himself; later, she finds an envelope containing the tape of Abbott's conversations with Gretkov and Bourne in her hotel room.
Bourne travels to Moscow to find Neski's daughter, Irena. Kirill, tasked once again by Gretkov with killing Bourne, finds and wounds him. Bourne flees in a stolen taxi and Kirill chases him. Bourne forces Kirill's vehicle into a concrete divider, and leaves behind a seriously wounded Kirill, as Gretkov is arrested with Landy watching in the background. Bourne locates Irena and confesses to murdering her parents, apologizing to her as he leaves.
Later in New York City, Bourne calls Landy. She thanks him for the tape, reveals his original name, David Webb, and his date and place of birth, and asks him to meet her. Bourne, who is watching her from a building tells her she looks tired and to get some rest, as he disappears into the city.
In addition,Oksana Akinshina appears as Irena Neski.
The producers replacedDoug Liman, who directedThe Bourne Identity. 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 directorPaul Greengrass was selected to direct the film after the producers sawBloody Sunday (2002), Greengrass' depiction of theBloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland, at Gilroy's suggestion. Producer Patrick Crowley liked Greengrass' "sense of the camera as [a] participatory viewer", a visual style Crowley thought would work well forThe Bourne Supremacy.[7] The film was shot in reverse order of its settings: some portions of the car chase and the film's ending were shot inMoscow, then most of the rest of the film was shot in and aroundBerlin, and the opening scenes inGoa,India were filmed last.[8][9]
Initially, the film ended with Bourne collapsing after meeting the Neskis' daughter and later having a conversation with Landy in a hospital room.[10][11] Two weeks before the film was to premiere, Greengrass and Damon devised an alternate ending—the phone conversation in New York between Landy and Bourne—and the producers agreed to shoot it. The filmtested better with the new ending and it was included in the final release.[12]
The special visual effects were produced byIndustrial Light & Magic (ILM).
The film was released onVHS andDVD byUniversal Pictures Home Entertainment on December 7, 2004.[13]
The Bourne Supremacy grossed $176.1 million domestically (United States and Canada) and $134.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $311 million, against a budget of $75 million.[5] Released Jul 23, 2004, it opened at No. 1. It spent eight of its first nine weeks in the Top 10 at the domestic box office.[14]
On thereview aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes, 81% of 194 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "A well-made sequel that delivers the thrills."[15]Metacritic, which uses aweighted average, assigned the film a score of 73 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[16] Audiences polled byCinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.[17]
Roger Ebert of theChicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, writing that it "treats the material with gravity and uses good actors in well-written supporting roles [that] elevates the movie above its genre, but not quite out of it."[18]
At the 2005Taurus World Stunt Awards, veteran Russianstunt coordinatorViktor Ivanov and Scottish stunt driver Gillie McKenzie won the "Best Vehicle" award for their driving in the Moscowcar chase scene. Dan Bradley, the film'ssecond unit director won the overall award for stunt coordinator.[19] The film ranks 454th onEmpire's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.[20]
| Year | Organization | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
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| 2005 | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards | ASCAP Award | Top Box Office Films | John Powell | Won |
| Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, USA | Saturn Award | Best Actor | Matt Damon | Nominated | |
| Broadcast Film Critics Association | Critics Choice Award | Best Popular Movie | Nominated | ||
| Cinema Audio Society Awards | C.A.S. Award | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures | Nominated | ||
| Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Edgar | Best Motion Picture Screenplay | Nominated | ||
| Empire Awards, UK | Empire Award | Best Actor | Matt Damon and Best Film | Won | |
| Best British Director of the Year | Paul Greengrass | Nominated | |||
| London Critics Circle Film Awards | ALFS Award | Best British Director | Nominated | ||
| Scene of the Year | The Moscow Car Chase Sequence | Nominated | |||
| MTV Movie Award | MTV Movie Award | Best Action Sequence | The Moscow Car Chase | Nominated | |
| Best Male Performance | Matt Damon | Nominated | |||
| 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 and Foley | Nominated | ||
| People's Choice Awards, USA | People's Choice Award | Favorite Movie Drama | Nominated | ||
| Teen Choice Award | Teen Choice Award | Choice Movie Actor: Action | Matt Damon | Nominated | |
| Choice Movie: Action | Nominated | ||||
| USC Scripter Award | USC Scripter Award | Tony Gilroy(Screenwriter) andRobert Ludlum(Author) | Nominated | ||
| World Soundtrack Award | World Soundtrack Award | Best Original Soundtrack of the Year —John Powell and Soundtrack Composer of the Year —John Powell | Nominated | ||
| World Stunt Awards | Taurus Award | Best Stunt Coordinator or 2nd Unit Director | Dan Bradley | Won[19] | |
| Best Work with a Vehicle | Viktor Ivanov, Gillie McKenzie | Won[19] | |||
| Best Fight | Darrin Prescott and Chris O'Hara | Nominated[19] |
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