The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

In which everything that worked in the first film is stripped away and we're left with another summer-movie disappointment. The actors are mainly going through the paces (Brian Cox, for instance, has a role that he could play in his sleep, which is the approach he seems to have chosen), and the action scenes are terrible -- imagine trying to film a fight scene with a camera that has been stuck inside a paint mixer and you'll get the idea. And, if you melted some cheese over the screenplay, it would make for the most delicious hash browns. The coda is comically inappropriate.

Grade: C