The Bourne Supremacy (film)

The Bourne Supremacy (film)

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The Bourne Supremacy
Directed by	Paul Greengrass
Produced by	Frank Marshall Patrick Crowley Paul L. Sandberg
Screenplay by	Tony Gilroy
Based on	The Bourne Supremacy  by Robert Ludlum
Starring	Matt Damon Franka Potente Brian Cox Julia Stiles Karl Urban Gabriel Mann Joan Allen
Music by	John Powell
Cinematography	Oliver Wood
Edited by	Christopher Rouse Rick Pearson
Production company	Kennedy/Marshall Ludlum Entertainment
Distributed by	Universal Studios
Release dates	July 23, 2004 (2004-07-23)
Running time	108 minutes
Country	Germany United States[1]
Language	English Italian Russian German
Budget	$75 million[2]
Box office	$288,500,217[2]

The Bourne Supremacy is a 2004 American-German action and spy film loosely based on Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name. The film was directed by Paul Greengrass from a screenplay by Tony Gilroy. Universal Pictures released the film to theaters in the United States on July 23, 2004. It is the second in the Bourne film series. It is preceded by The Bourne Identity (2002) and followed by The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and The Bourne Legacy (2012).

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

 

Contents

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• 1 Plot
• 2 Cast
• 3 Production
• 4 Reception
  • 4.1 Accolades
• 5 Soundtrack
• 6 See also
• 7 References
• 8 External links

 

Plot[edit]

Two years after the events of the first film, Jason Bourne and Marie Kreutz are now in Goa, India. Still experiencing flashbacks about his former life as a CIA assassin, he records them in a notebook.

In Berlin, CIA agents subordinate to Deputy Director Pamela Landy are paying US$3 million for the "Neski files", documents on the theft of $20 million in allocation money seven years prior. Kirill, an agent for Russia's Federal Security Service, plants Bourne's fingerprint to frame him, kills the agents, and steals the files and money for delivery to Russian oil oligarch Yuri Gretkov. Kirill travels to Goa to kill Bourne, but Bourne spots him and flees with Marie. As the couple drive away, Kirill attempts to shoot Bourne, but kills Marie by mistake. Their vehicle goes off a bridge and into a river; Kirill assumes that Bourne is dead.

Bourne survives and leaves for Naples, Italy, with money and passports. After finding the fingerprint Kirill planted, Landy learns that it belongs to Bourne and subsequently asks Deputy Director Ward Abbott about Operation Treadstone, the defunct CIA program to which Bourne belonged. Landy tells Abbott that the CIA agent who stole the $20 million was named in the Neski files. Some years previously, Russian politician Vladimir Neski was about to identify the thief when he was supposedly murdered by his wife in a Berlin hotel. Landy believes that Bourne and Treadstone's late supervisor, Alexander Conklin, were somehow involved. She also believes that Bourne killed her two agents. Both Abbott and Landy go to Berlin to capture Bourne.

In Naples, Bourne allows himself to be identified by security. He subdues his CIA interrogator, copies the SIM card from his cell phone, and learns from a subsequent phone call about Landy and what she thinks Bourne did. Bourne goes to Munich to visit the only other remaining Treadstone operative, Jarda, who informs Bourne that Treadstone was shut down after Conklin's death. Jarda tries to incapacitate Bourne before an incoming CIA team arrives, but Bourne kills him, blows up his house, and escapes. Bourne follows Landy and Abbott as they meet former Treadstone support technician Nicky Parsons to question her about her past experience with him. Believing that the CIA is hunting him again, Bourne calls Landy and is told that he is being pursued because he killed two people in Berlin—though she is not referring to Bourne's recent flashbacks'.

Bourne kidnaps Nicky at the Alexanderplatz, and learns from her that Abbott was the head of Treadstone, not Conklin. He remembers that he murdered Neski in Berlin, but Parsons knows nothing about it. Bourne visits the hotel where the killing took place and remembers more of his mission—he killed Neski on Conklin's orders, and when Neski's wife showed up, he shot her to make it look like a murder–suicide. Abbott kills his own assistant when he suspects a conspiracy against Bourne, who breaks into Abbott's hotel room and records a conversation between him and Gretkov that incriminates them in the theft of the money. Abbott confesses to ordering the assassination in Goa, Neski's murder by Bourne, and the murder of the agents by Kirill, for which Bourne was to be framed. When Landy suspects Bourne's innocence and confronts Abbott, he commits suicide. Bourne sends the tape of the confession to Landy, vindicating himself.

Bourne goes to Moscow to find Irena Neski, the daughter of Vladimir Neski. Kirill appears and wounds Bourne in the shoulder. Bourne reaches a car and Kirill engages him in a high-speed car chase, ending after Bourne forces his car into a concrete divider. After seeing that Kirill is critically injured, he lowers his gun and walks away. Bourne locates Neski and apologizes for murdering her parents. Gretkov is arrested by Landy, using the evidence she got from Bourne. Some time later, in New York City, she receives a phone call from Bourne; she expresses her thanks for the tape of Abbott's confession before telling Bourne his real name is David Webb and that he was born "4-15-71" in Nixa, Missouri. Bourne tells her that she looks tired, indicating that he can see her, before hanging up and fading into a New York crowd.

Cast[edit]

• Matt Damon as Jason Bourne/David Webb
• Franka Potente as Marie Helena Kreutz
• Brian Cox as Ward Abbott
• Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons
• Karl Urban as Kirill
• Gabriel Mann as Danny Zorn
• Joan Allen as Pamela Landy

Other cast members include Marton Csokas as Jarda, Karel Roden as Yuri Gretkov, Tomas Arana as Martin Marshall, Tom Gallop as Tom Cronin, Tim Griffin as John Nevins, Michelle Monaghan as Kim, Ethan Sandler as Kurt, John Bedford Lloyd as Teddy, Oksana Akinshina as Irena Neski, and an uncredited Chris Cooper as Alexander Conklin.

Production[edit]

There were no plans to make a sequel to The Bourne Identity (2002) when it was conceived. Matt Damon commented, "When The Bourne Identity came out I said, 'There is very little chance we will do a second film, just because nobody on the team who made the first wants to make another movie if it can't be as good as, or better than, the first one.'" According to producer Frank Marshall, the plot point of Marie's kidnapping to force Bourne back into his assassin persona in the novel The Bourne Supremacy and Bourne's threat to come after the CIA if they came after him again in the previous film, were the inspiration for the plot. Marshall said that screenwriter Tony Gilroy thought of an idea that Bourne "would go on what amounts to the samurai's journey, this journey of atonement." Producer Paul L. Sandberg felt that Gilroy's "veering away from the plot of the book" was necessary "because so much of the world has changed since the book's publication." The producers replaced director Doug Liman. 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 director Paul Greengrass was selected to direct the film after the producers saw Bloody Sunday (2002), Greengrass' depiction of the Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland, at Gilroy's suggestion. Producer Patrick Crowley liked Greengrass' "sense of the camera as participatory viewer", a visual style Crowley thought would work well for The Bourne Supremacy.^[4] The film was shot in reverse order of its settings: some portions of the car chase and the film's ending were shot in Moscow, then most of the rest of the film was shot in and around Berlin, and the opening scenes in Goa were filmed last.^[5][6]

According to a June 2008 article from The Guardian, "Two weeks before [the film's] release, [Greengrass] got together with its star, Matt Damon, came up with a new ending and phoned the producers saying the new idea was way better. And it would cost $200,000 and involve pulling Damon from the set of Ocean's 12 for a re-shoot. Reluctantly the producers agreed—the movie tested 10 points higher with the new ending".^[7]

Reception[edit]

The Bourne Supremacy grossed $288,500,217.^[2]

The film received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 81% based on reviews from 189 critics, with an average score of 7.2/10. The site's consensus reads "A well-made sequel that delivers the thrills."^[8] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 based on individual reviews, the film achieved an average of 73 based on 39 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews.^[9]

This section requires expansion. (January 2014)

Accolades[edit]

At the 2005 Taurus World Stunt Awards, veteran Russian stunt coordinator Viktor Ivanov and Scottish stunt driver Gillie McKenzie won the "Best Vehicle" award for their driving in the Moscow car chase scene. Dan Bradley, the film's second unit director won the overall award for stunt coordinator.^[10] The film ranks 454th on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.^[11]

Year	Organization	Award	Category/Recipient	Result
2005	ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards	ASCAP Award	Top Box Office Films: John Powell	Won[12]
2005	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Saturn Award	Best Actor — Matt Damon	Nominated[12]
2005	Broadcast Film Critics Association	Critics Choice Award	Best Film – Popular	Nominated[12]
2005	Cinema Audio Society Awards	C.A.S. Award	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures	Nominated[12]
2005	Edgar Allan Poe Awards	Edgar	Best Motion Picture Screenplay	Nominated[12]
2005	Empire Awards, UK	Empire Award	Best Actor – Matt Damon and Best Film	Won[12]
2005	Empire Awards, UK	Empire Award	Best British Director of the Year — Paul Greengrass	Nominated[12]
2005	London Critics Circle Film Awards	ALFS Award	Best British Director — Paul Greengrass and Scene of the Year – The Moscow Car Chase Sequence	Nominated[12]
2005	MTV Movie Award	MTV Movie Award	Best Action Sequence – The Moscow Car Chase Sequence and Best Male Performance – Matt Damon	Nominated[12]
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[12]
2005	People's Choice Awards, USA	People's Choice Award	Favorite Movie Drama	Nominated[12]
2005	Teen Choice Award	Teen Choice Award	Choice Movie Actor – Action/Adventure Thriller – Matt Damon and Choice Movie – Action/Adventure	Nominated[12]
2005	USC Scripter Award	USC Scripter Award	Tony Gilroy (Screenwriter) and Robert Ludlum (Author)	Nominated[12]
2005	World Soundtrack Award	World Soundtrack Award	Best Original Soundtrack of the Year — John Powell and Soundtrack Composer of the Year — John Powell	Nominated[12]
2005	World Stunt Awards	Taurus Award	Best Stunt Coordinator and/or 2nd Unit Director and Best Work with a Vehicle	Won[12]
2005	World Stunt Awards	Taurus Award	Best Fight – Darrin Prescott and Chris O'Hara	Nominated[12]

Soundtrack[edit]

Main article: The Bourne Supremacy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack