The Bourne Supremacy

This year's holiday pastime among my sons' friends is film swapping. Now don't preach to me about copyright - that's impractical. I just watch (some) of them and send them back. I won't review all of them here, or else it will change from a "football" blog to a film blog.

Saturday's movie was The Bourne Supremacy - superb. I haven't enjoyed a spy movie this much since the film adaptations of John Le Carre's "Smiley" novels: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold with Richard Burton, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People with Alec Guinness.

The locations (India, Naples, Berlin and Moscow) are well integrated in the plot. No concessions are made to non-linguists, with local characters speaking in their native tongues.

Weapons and gadgetry do not intrude, as often happens in such films. The CIA's use of tracking and information gathering computer systems is credible. The only real doubt is whether a Moscow taxi could survive the treatment it takes in the car chase, but that sequence is so good that the doubt can be forgiven.

Such a good film that it will go on my shopping list, which is already rather long, somewhere near the top.

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