Matt Damon should so be my boyfriend

reviewed Fri, 23 Jul 2004

After Spider-Man 2, I had high hopes for The Bourne Supremacy, since I liked The Bourne Identity more than I liked Spider-Man, and it stars Matt Damon, who should so be my boyfriend. Well, it just goes to show, you shouldn't get your hopes up. I was tremendously disappointed by Supremacy, a frenetic, jumpy, not particularly clever thriller that desperately needs Ritalin. It seems like director Paul Greengrass doesn't let any shot go on for more than two seconds until halfway through the movie. This makes all the chases and fights extremely confusing, not to mention head-aching.

The plot is fairly stupid, none of the actors are especially good, and even Matt Damon is virtually charisma-free (although I nevertheless spent most of the movie thinking, "He should so be my boyfriend" alternated with "I wish he'd do a movie that lets him actually show his talent again"). The movie makes the same stab at originality that the first movie made, but it gives up even more pathetically and allows cliché to run rampant. My god, the villain even reveals his entire nefarious plan for no particular reason.

Frankly, this movie just put me in a bad mood, in no small part because, as you may be aware, Matt Damon is not my boyfriend, and this was a waste of his time. So I'll close with an audience rant: more than half the audience arrived after the movie's posted start time. I mean, what the hell...? However, most of them didn't miss any of the movie, due to the 10 minutes of commercials and five minutes of previews.

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