The Bourne Supremacy

Best Car Chase ever. :D

Best of the bunch, IMO. Wisely, the filmmakers quickly do away with the whole hand-holding innocent civilian tagalong thing and just concentrate on Bourne outsmarting the entire black ops wing of the US government at every turn. With the premise set completely by the first movie, the sequel can feel free to quit worrying about the setup and dive right into the action and weighty plot developments. Supremacy has several scenes that are more than coincidentally similar to the original, but they’re all amped up a couple notches (rolled up magazine fight > pen fight, taxi tunnel chase scene > Mini Cooper chase scene, etc.) and paired with enough original material to retain a unique identity (no pun intended). The story does a great job of picking up on the dangling threads from the original and wrapping them all up into a rewarding, conclusive finale. There’s a bit too much shaky-cam in the action scenes for my liking, but this was released when that concept still felt fresh and it does lend a slightly more believable look and feel than what you'll get from the more classic polished Hollywood fight scenes.