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The Bourne Supremacy (film)
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The Bourne Supremacy is a 2004 American spy film
very loosely based on Robert Ludlum
's novel of the same name
. The film was directed by Paul Greengrass
, written by Tony Gilroy
and Brian Helgeland
, and produced by Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley. Universal Pictures
released the film to theaters in the United States
on 23 July 2004. It is the second in the Bourne film series
. It was preceded by The Bourne Identity
and is followed by The Bourne Ultimatum
.
The Bourne Supremacy continues the story of Jason Bourne, a former CIA paramilitary operative and assassin suffering from psychogenic amnesia
. 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 surrounding 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.
) and his girlfriend Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente
) have been living incognito in Goa, India for the past two years where Bourne struggles to recall the specifics of his first mission as a black ops agent
. In Berlin
, CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy (Joan Allen
) runs a "buy operation", spending $
3 million to purchase evidence exposing the mole
within the agency that stole $20 million in allocation money
seven years prior. Before Landy's operative can complete the transaction, Russian FSB agent Kirill (Karl Urban
) infiltrates the building, plants a fingerprint to frame Bourne, kills Landy's operative and the seller of the information and makes off with the evidence and the money. Kirill then reports back to Russian oil magnate
Yuri Gretkov (Karel Roden
), who sends him to Goa to finish the job by assassinating Bourne. Bourne spots Kirill and flees with Marie in a jeep. Kirill gives chase and shoots at the vehicle, causing the jeep to run off a bridge into the river. Kirill leaves, believing Bourne to be dead, but only Marie is killed. Bourne departs for Naples
, Italy
, to seek vengeance.
Landy follows the planted fingerprint lead and gains security clearance to sift through the CIA archives to investigate "Operation Treadstone," in which an elite squad of assassins, Bourne being one, was created and used. She stumbles upon evidence implicating Alexander Conklin, the late former director of the operation. She questions Conklin's boss, Deputy Director Ward Abbott (Brian Cox), but he admits only to vague details. Landy gives a report to her supervisor, Operations Director Martin Marshall (Tomas Arana
), advising that some years back, Russian politician Vladimir Neski acquired proof of the identity of the thief who stole the $20 million. When Neski threatened to make the information public, he was killed along with his wife in what was made to look like a murder-suicide in a Berlin hotel room. Landy suspects Bourne and Conklin were responsible. The meeting is interrupted when it is reported that Bourne has just been detained in Naples. Marshall orders both Abbott and Landy to get him.
Meanwhile, in Naples, Bourne incapacitates the consulate field officer
questioning him, copies the SIM card from his cell phone, and learns of Landy and her suspicions when he eavesdrops on a phone call. Bourne then heads to Munich
to interrogate the only other living former Treadstone operative, Jarda (Marton Csokas
), who informs him the program was shut down after Conklin's death. Having already alerted the CIA, Jarda attacks Bourne. Bourne strangles him, then blows up his house to avoid capture by a CIA team. In Amsterdam
, Landy and Abbott question former Treadstone support technician Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles
) and bring her along with them to Berlin. Believing that Landy ordered the hit in Goa, Bourne calls her and arranges to meet Nicky at the Alexanderplatz
. After he abducts her, Nicky tells Bourne that Abbott was the true mastermind of Treadstone, not Conklin.
Next, Bourne visits the site of his first mission, the Brecker Hotel in Berlin, and recalls that he killed Neski and his wife on Conklin's orders and made it appear as a murder-suicide. Abbott kills his assistant, Danny Zorn (Gabriel Mann), when he begins to uncover the conspiracy. Bourne breaks into Abbott's hotel room and records an incriminating conversation between Abbott and Gretkov in which they discuss their roles in the theft of the $20 million. Holding Abbott at gunpoint, Bourne secretly records him confessing to ordering the hit in Goa, Neski's murder, and the murders of the agents in Landy's buy operation to cover up the theft. Bourne refuses to kill Abbott only because Marie would not have wanted it. After Bourne leaves, Landy shows up, only to see Abbott commit suicide. Bourne sends the tape to her.
Bourne travels to Moscow
to find Irena Neski (Oksana Akinshina
), the Neskis' orphaned daughter. Kirill tracks Bourne down and shoots him in the shoulder. They and the police engage in a high-speed car chase which ends with Kirill seriously injured after Bourne smashes his vehicle into a concrete divider. Bourne finds Irena and confesses to her his part in her parents' deaths and apologizes. Landy uses the tape of Abbott's confession to have Gretkov arrested.
Back in New York, she receives a phone call from Bourne. She expresses her gratitude for the tape and tells Bourne his real name is David Webb and he was born 4/15/71.
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. 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.
scores the film at 81% while Metacritic
scores it at 73 out of 100. At the 2005 Taurus World Stunt Awards
, veteran Russian stunt coordinator
Viktor Ivanov
won the "Best Vehicle" award for his driving in the Moscow car chase
scene. Dan Bradley, the film's second unit director
won the overall award for stunt coordinator. The film ranks 454th on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.
Spy film
The spy film genre deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way or as a basis for fantasy . Many novels in the spy fiction genre have been adapted as films, including works by John Buchan, John Le Carré, Ian Fleming and Len Deighton...
very loosely based on Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum was an American author of 23 thriller novels. The number of his books in print is estimated between 290–500 million copies. They have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd.-Life and...
's novel of the same name
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Supremacy is the second Jason Bourne novel written by Robert Ludlum, first published in 1986. It was the sequel to Ludlum's bestseller The Bourne Identity and precedes Ludlum's final Bourne novel, The Bourne Ultimatum ....
. The film was directed by Paul Greengrass
Paul Greengrass
Paul Greengrass is an English film director, screenwriter and former journalist. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras.-Life and career:...
, written by Tony Gilroy
Tony Gilroy
Anthony Joseph "Tony" Gilroy is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He wrote the screenplays for the Bourne series starring Matt Damon, among other successful films. He has been nominated for Academy Awards for his direction and script for Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney...
and Brian Helgeland
Brian Helgeland
Brian Thomas Helgeland is an American screenwriter, film producer and director. He is most known for writing the screenplays for L.A...
, and produced by Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley. Universal Pictures
Universal Studios
Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....
released the film to theaters in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
on 23 July 2004. It is the second in the Bourne film series
Bourne (film series)
The Bourne films are a series of dramatic films based on the character Jason Bourne, a former CIA assassin suffering from extreme memory loss, created by author Robert Ludlum. All three of Ludlum's novels were adapted for the screen, featuring Matt Damon as the titular character in each...
. It was preceded by The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Identity (2002 film)
The Bourne Identity is a 2002 American spy film loosely based on Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name. It stars Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, an amnesiac attempting to discover his true identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the Central Intelligence Agency . The film also stars Franka...
and is followed by The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bourne Ultimatum (film)
The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 American spy film directed by Paul Greengrass and loosely based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same title. This film is the third in the Bourne film series, being preceded by The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy...
.
The Bourne Supremacy continues the story of Jason Bourne, a former CIA paramilitary operative and assassin suffering from psychogenic amnesia
Psychogenic amnesia
Psychogenic amnesia, also known as functional amnesia or dissociative amnesia, is a memory disorder characterized by extreme memory loss that is caused by extensive psychological stress and that cannot be attributed to a known neurobiological cause...
. Bourne is portrayed by Matt Damon
Matt Damon
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, screenwriter, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting , from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck...
. The film focuses on his attempt to learn more of his past as he is once more enveloped in a conspiracy surrounding the CIA and Operation Treadstone. The film also stars Brian Cox as Ward Abbott, Joan Allen
Joan Allen
Joan Allen is an American actress. She worked in theatre, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1989.She has received three Academy Award nominations;...
as Pamela Landy and Julia Stiles
Julia Stiles
Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...
as Nicky Parsons.
Plot
Jason Bourne (Matt DamonMatt Damon
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, screenwriter, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting , from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck...
) and his girlfriend Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente
Franka Potente
Franka Potente is a German film actress and singer. She first appeared in the comedy After Five in the Forest Primeval and gained critical recognition in the action thriller Lola rennt . Potente received Germany's highest film and television awards for her performances in Run Lola Run and...
) have been living incognito in Goa, India for the past two years where Bourne struggles to recall the specifics of his first mission as a black ops agent
Black operation
A black operation or black op is a covert operation typically involving activities that are highly clandestine and often outside of standard military protocol or even against the law.-Origins:...
. In Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy (Joan Allen
Joan Allen
Joan Allen is an American actress. She worked in theatre, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1989.She has received three Academy Award nominations;...
) runs a "buy operation", spending $
United States dollar
The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....
3 million to purchase evidence exposing the mole
Mole (espionage)
A mole is a spy who works for an enemy nation, but whose loyalty ostensibly lies with his own nation's government. In some usage, a mole differs from a defector in that a mole is a spy before gaining access to classified information, while a defector becomes a spy only after gaining access...
within the agency that stole $20 million in allocation money
Black budget
A black budget is a budget that is secretly collected from the overall income of a country, a corporation, a society of any form, a national department, and so on. A black budget usually covers expenses related to military research. The budget is kept secret for national security reasons.Philip...
seven years prior. Before Landy's operative can complete the transaction, Russian FSB agent Kirill (Karl Urban
Karl Urban
Karl-Heinz Urban is a New Zealand actor.He is known for playing Éomer in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the 2009 film Star Trek and Julius Caesar on Xena: Warrior Princess...
) infiltrates the building, plants a fingerprint to frame Bourne, kills Landy's operative and the seller of the information and makes off with the evidence and the money. Kirill then reports back to Russian oil magnate
Business magnate
A business magnate, sometimes referred to as a capitalist, czar, mogul, tycoon, baron, oligarch, or industrialist, is an informal term used to refer to an entrepreneur who has reached prominence and derived a notable amount of wealth from a particular industry .-Etymology:The word magnate itself...
Yuri Gretkov (Karel Roden
Karel Roden
Karel Roden is a Czech actor, known for his roles in Hellboy and The Bourne Supremacy.Roden's father and grandfather were also actors. After studying theatrical art in Prague he has played many roles in theatres and movies. First, he graduated school of ceramic, then he was admitted to the Academy...
), who sends him to Goa to finish the job by assassinating Bourne. Bourne spots Kirill and flees with Marie in a jeep. Kirill gives chase and shoots at the vehicle, causing the jeep to run off a bridge into the river. Kirill leaves, believing Bourne to be dead, but only Marie is killed. Bourne departs for Naples
Naples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, to seek vengeance.
Landy follows the planted fingerprint lead and gains security clearance to sift through the CIA archives to investigate "Operation Treadstone," in which an elite squad of assassins, Bourne being one, was created and used. She stumbles upon evidence implicating Alexander Conklin, the late former director of the operation. She questions Conklin's boss, Deputy Director Ward Abbott (Brian Cox), but he admits only to vague details. Landy gives a report to her supervisor, Operations Director Martin Marshall (Tomas Arana
Tomas Arana
-Life and career:Arana was born in Auburn, California. He grew up in San Francisco and studied classical theatre at the prestigious American Conservatory Theater and at the City College of San Francisco. Afterwards he relocated to New York and acted in off-Broadway productions...
), advising that some years back, Russian politician Vladimir Neski acquired proof of the identity of the thief who stole the $20 million. When Neski threatened to make the information public, he was killed along with his wife in what was made to look like a murder-suicide in a Berlin hotel room. Landy suspects Bourne and Conklin were responsible. The meeting is interrupted when it is reported that Bourne has just been detained in Naples. Marshall orders both Abbott and Landy to get him.
Meanwhile, in Naples, Bourne incapacitates the consulate field officer
Consul (representative)
The political title Consul is used for the official representatives of the government of one state in the territory of another, normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul's own country, and to facilitate trade and friendship between the peoples of the two countries...
questioning him, copies the SIM card from his cell phone, and learns of Landy and her suspicions when he eavesdrops on a phone call. Bourne then heads to Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
to interrogate the only other living former Treadstone operative, Jarda (Marton Csokas
Marton Csokas
-Early life:Csokas was born in Invercargill, New Zealand. His mother, a nurse, is of Irish and Danish descent; his Hungarian-born father, also named Márton Csókás, worked as a mechanical engineer...
), who informs him the program was shut down after Conklin's death. Having already alerted the CIA, Jarda attacks Bourne. Bourne strangles him, then blows up his house to avoid capture by a CIA team. In Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, Landy and Abbott question former Treadstone support technician Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles
Julia Stiles
Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...
) and bring her along with them to Berlin. Believing that Landy ordered the hit in Goa, Bourne calls her and arranges to meet Nicky at the Alexanderplatz
Alexanderplatz
Alexanderplatz is a large public square and transport hub in the central Mitte district of Berlin, near the Fernsehturm. Berliners often call it simply Alex, referring to a larger neighborhood stretching from Mollstraße in the northeast to Spandauer Straße and the City Hall in the southwest.-Early...
. After he abducts her, Nicky tells Bourne that Abbott was the true mastermind of Treadstone, not Conklin.
Next, Bourne visits the site of his first mission, the Brecker Hotel in Berlin, and recalls that he killed Neski and his wife on Conklin's orders and made it appear as a murder-suicide. Abbott kills his assistant, Danny Zorn (Gabriel Mann), when he begins to uncover the conspiracy. Bourne breaks into Abbott's hotel room and records an incriminating conversation between Abbott and Gretkov in which they discuss their roles in the theft of the $20 million. Holding Abbott at gunpoint, Bourne secretly records him confessing to ordering the hit in Goa, Neski's murder, and the murders of the agents in Landy's buy operation to cover up the theft. Bourne refuses to kill Abbott only because Marie would not have wanted it. After Bourne leaves, Landy shows up, only to see Abbott commit suicide. Bourne sends the tape to her.
Bourne travels to Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
to find Irena Neski (Oksana Akinshina
Oksana Akinshina
Oksana Aleksandrovna Akinshina , also known as Oksana Akinsjina, is a Russian actress. She is probably the best known for her roles in films Sisters, Lilya 4-ever, The Bourne Supremacy and Hipsters.- Early and personal life :...
), the Neskis' orphaned daughter. Kirill tracks Bourne down and shoots him in the shoulder. They and the police engage in a high-speed car chase which ends with Kirill seriously injured after Bourne smashes his vehicle into a concrete divider. Bourne finds Irena and confesses to her his part in her parents' deaths and apologizes. Landy uses the tape of Abbott's confession to have Gretkov arrested.
Back in New York, she receives a phone call from Bourne. She expresses her gratitude for the tape and tells Bourne his real name is David Webb and he was born 4/15/71.
Cast
- Matt DamonMatt DamonMatthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, screenwriter, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting , from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck...
as Jason Bourne - Brian Cox as Ward Abbott
- Joan AllenJoan AllenJoan Allen is an American actress. She worked in theatre, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1989.She has received three Academy Award nominations;...
as Pamela Landy - Karl UrbanKarl UrbanKarl-Heinz Urban is a New Zealand actor.He is known for playing Éomer in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the 2009 film Star Trek and Julius Caesar on Xena: Warrior Princess...
as Kirill - Julia StilesJulia StilesJulia O'Hara Stiles is an American actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...
as Nicky Parsons - Gabriel Mann as Danny Zorn
- Marton CsokasMarton Csokas-Early life:Csokas was born in Invercargill, New Zealand. His mother, a nurse, is of Irish and Danish descent; his Hungarian-born father, also named Márton Csókás, worked as a mechanical engineer...
as Jarda - Karel RodenKarel RodenKarel Roden is a Czech actor, known for his roles in Hellboy and The Bourne Supremacy.Roden's father and grandfather were also actors. After studying theatrical art in Prague he has played many roles in theatres and movies. First, he graduated school of ceramic, then he was admitted to the Academy...
as Yuri Gretkov - Franka PotenteFranka PotenteFranka Potente is a German film actress and singer. She first appeared in the comedy After Five in the Forest Primeval and gained critical recognition in the action thriller Lola rennt . Potente received Germany's highest film and television awards for her performances in Run Lola Run and...
as Marie Helena Kreutz - Oksana AkinshinaOksana AkinshinaOksana Aleksandrovna Akinshina , also known as Oksana Akinsjina, is a Russian actress. She is probably the best known for her roles in films Sisters, Lilya 4-ever, The Bourne Supremacy and Hipsters.- Early and personal life :...
as Neski's daughter - Tomas AranaTomas Arana-Life and career:Arana was born in Auburn, California. He grew up in San Francisco and studied classical theatre at the prestigious American Conservatory Theater and at the City College of San Francisco. Afterwards he relocated to New York and acted in off-Broadway productions...
as Martin Marshall - Ethan SandlerEthan SandlerEthan Sandler is an American actor known for his role of ADA Jeffrey Brandau on the television series Crossing Jordan.-Career:Sandler's screen credits include The Chocolate War, Flushed, and The Enigma with a Stigma...
as Kurt - Michelle MonaghanMichelle MonaghanMichelle Lynn Monaghan is an American actress known for her roles in Mission: Impossible III, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Gone Baby Gone, Made of Honor, The Heartbreak Kid, Eagle Eye, and Source Code.-Early life:...
as Kim - John Bedford Lloyd as Teddy
- Tim Griffin as John Nevins
- Chris CooperChris Cooper (actor)Christopher W. "Chris" Cooper is an American film actor. He became well known in the late 1990s. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including The Bourne Identity, American Beauty, Capote, The Town, The Kingdom, Syriana, October Sky, Seabiscuit, and...
as Alexander Conklin
Production
There were no plans to make a sequelSequel
A sequel is a narrative, documental, or other work of literature, film, theatre, or music that continues the story of or expands upon issues presented in some previous work...
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
Tony Gilroy
Anthony Joseph "Tony" Gilroy is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He wrote the screenplays for the Bourne series starring Matt Damon, among other successful films. He has been nominated for Academy Awards for his direction and script for Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney...
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
Paul Greengrass
Paul Greengrass is an English film director, screenwriter and former journalist. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras.-Life and career:...
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. 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.
Reception
The Bourne Supremacy grossed $288,500,217. Reviews on Internet critic sites suggest an overall positive disposition towards the film. Rotten TomatoesRotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...
scores the film at 81% while Metacritic
Metacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
scores it at 73 out of 100. At the 2005 Taurus World Stunt Awards
Taurus World Stunt Awards
The Taurus World Stunt Awards is a yearly award ceremony that honors stunt performers in movies. It is held each year in Los Angeles.- Categories :*Best Fight*Best Fire Stunt*Best High Work*Best Work with a Vehicle*Best Overall Stunt by a Stunt Woman...
, veteran Russian stunt coordinator
Stunt coordinator
A stunt coordinator, usually an experienced stunt performer, is hired by a TV, film or theatre director or production company to arrange the casting and performance of stunts for a film, television programme or a live audience...
Viktor Ivanov
Viktor Ivanov (stunt coordinator)
Viktor Ivanov is a Russian film director and veteran stunt coordinator best known for the feature film White Gold and for his design of the spectacular car chase through the streets of Moscow in The Bourne Supremacy, for which he won the "Best Vehicle" award at the 2005 Taurus World Stunt Awards....
won the "Best Vehicle" award for his driving in the Moscow car chase
Car chase
A car chase is the vehicular pursuit of a suspect by law enforcement officers. Car chases are often captured on film and broadcast due to the availability of video footage recorded by police cars and police and media helicopters participating in the chase...
scene. Dan Bradley, the film's second unit director
Second unit
In film, the second unit is a team that shoots subsidiary footage for a motion picture. Its work is distinct from that of the first unit, which shoots all scenes involving principal actors...
won the overall award for stunt coordinator. The film ranks 454th on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.
Accolades
| Year | Organization | Award | Category/Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards | ASCAP Award | Top Box Office Films: John Powell | |
| 2005 | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Saturn Award The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video. The Saturn Awards were devised by Dr. Donald A. Reed in 1972, who felt that films within... |
Saturn Award | Best Actor — Matt Damon Matt Damon Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, screenwriter, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting , from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck... |
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| 2005 | Broadcast Film Critics Association Broadcast Film Critics Association The Broadcast Film Critics Association is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada , representing approximately 250 television, radio and online critics.... |
Critics Choice Award | Best Film – Popular | |
| 2005 | Cinema Audio Society Awards Cinema Audio Society Awards Cinema Audio Society Awards or The C.A.S. Awards is an annual awards ceremony honoring Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. The awards are presented by the Cinema Audio Society and began in 1994.It hands out awards for three categories:*Feature films... |
C.A.S. Award | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures | |
| 2005 | Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Edgar | Best Motion Picture Screenplay | |
| 2005 | Empire Awards, UK | Empire Award | Best Actor — Matt Damon and Best Film | |
| 2005 | Empire Awards, UK | Empire Award | Best British Director of the Year — Paul Greengrass Paul Greengrass Paul Greengrass is an English film director, screenwriter and former journalist. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras.-Life and career:... |
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| 2005 | London Critics Circle Film Awards | ALFS Award | Best British Director — Paul Greengrass Paul Greengrass Paul Greengrass is an English film director, screenwriter and former journalist. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras.-Life and career:... and Scene of the Year — The Moscow Car Chase Sequence |
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| 2005 | MTV Movie Award | MTV Movie Award | Best Action Sequence — The Moscow Car Chase Sequence and Best Male Performance — Matt Damon | |
| 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 | |
| 2005 | People's Choice Awards, USA | People's Choice Award | Favorite Movie Drama | |
| 2005 | Teen Choice Award | Teen Choice Award | Choice Movie Actor – Action/Adventure Thriller — Matt Damon and Choice Movie – Action/Adventure | |
| 2005 | USC Scripter Award | USC Scripter Award | Tony Gilroy Tony Gilroy Anthony Joseph "Tony" Gilroy is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He wrote the screenplays for the Bourne series starring Matt Damon, among other successful films. He has been nominated for Academy Awards for his direction and script for Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney... and Robert Ludlum Robert Ludlum Robert Ludlum was an American author of 23 thriller novels. The number of his books in print is estimated between 290–500 million copies. They have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd.-Life and... |
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| 2005 | World Soundtrack Award World Soundtrack Awards 2005 The 5th World Soundtrack Awards were given on 15 October 2005 in the Bijloke Concert Hall, Ghent, Belgium.-Winners:*Best Soundtrack Composer of the Year:**Angelo Badalamenti - Un long dimanche de fiançailles ... |
World Soundtrack Award | Best Original Soundtrack of the Year — John Powell John Powell John Powell is a British composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in the United States since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He rose to fame in the late 1990s and 2000s, scoring numerous animated films, and collaborating with... and Soundtrack Composer of the Year — John Powell John Powell John Powell is a British composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in the United States since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He rose to fame in the late 1990s and 2000s, scoring numerous animated films, and collaborating with... |
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| 2005 | World Stunt Awards Taurus World Stunt Awards The Taurus World Stunt Awards is a yearly award ceremony that honors stunt performers in movies. It is held each year in Los Angeles.- Categories :*Best Fight*Best Fire Stunt*Best High Work*Best Work with a Vehicle*Best Overall Stunt by a Stunt Woman... |
Taurus Award | Best Stunt Coordinator and/or 2nd Unit Director and Best Work with a Vehicle | |
| 2005 | World Stunt Awards Taurus World Stunt Awards The Taurus World Stunt Awards is a yearly award ceremony that honors stunt performers in movies. It is held each year in Los Angeles.- Categories :*Best Fight*Best Fire Stunt*Best High Work*Best Work with a Vehicle*Best Overall Stunt by a Stunt Woman... |
Taurus Award | Best Fight — Darrin Prescott and Chris O'Hara |