If The Bourne
Identity was the grounded, relaxed version of an action spy film, then its
first sequel The Bourne Supremacy is
the next step in kineticism, ratcheting up the energy as Bourne remembers more
about his past and becomes more deeply embroiled in layers of cover-ups he
can’t understand.
It picks up two years after the events of the first film.
Bourne and Marie are hiding out in India until an assassin (Karl Urban) shows
up and accidentally kills Marie (Franka Potente) instead of Bourne. Meanwhile
in Berlin, Pamela Landy (Joan Allen), a CIA bureaucrat, is working a case to
uncover a mole within the organization. Someone is also setting up Bourne as a
rogue agent. The old Treadstone project that made Bourne has become Blackbriar.
Landy is kept at arm’s length by Abbott (Brian Cox, returning in his role as
the head of the Black Ops program).
