Hard-ass agency task force chief Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) literally sees Bourne’s fingerprints on the treachery and, forcing the soon-to-retire senior operative Ward Abbott (Brian Cox) to help her, resolves to reel in the trouble-making rogue agent, whose shadowy kill squad was shuttered two years back with the death of its chief (Chris Cooper, seen and heard very briefly in flashbacks). At the same time, the CIA is coping with the loss of two men on a blown job in Berlin. Right off the bat, a tough assassin (Karl Urban) sent by a Russian oil tycoon chases Bourne and Marie through Goa’s teeming streets, with calamitous results that for a while take the wind out of the picture’s sails when it’s barely left port. As before, he is struggling to piece together clues to recapture lost memory. Major newcomer, replacing Doug Liman as director, is Paul Greengrass, whose 2002 look at a tragic day in Northern Ireland, “Bloody Sunday,” was lensed in arresting docu-drama style.įormat remains very much the same, with Bourne, first seen decompressing on the beach at Goa, India, with his “Identity” companion Marie (Franka Potente), quickly going on the run to elude pursuers intent on putting him permanently out of business. Trotting the globe even more than the original, “Supremacy” sees the return not only of several principal actors but of numerous key behind-the-scenes hands, including scripter Tony Gilroy, cinematographer Oliver Wood and composer John Powell.
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