'The Bourne Supremacy'

Once again, a movie that's better than the book.

And once again, it's a Robert Ludlum/Bourne novel.

The "Supremacy" is even better than the "Conspiracy" - the movies, I mean.

Matt Damon is the perfect Bourne, in the same sense Sean Connery was the perfect Bond.

Bourne was a CIA operative in a super-secret, highly compartmentalized/need-to-know "black-on-black" operation.

The operation went south and was closed down.

Except for Bourne, who never got the word and has amnesia for who he really is and what he did.

He remembers his killing skills very well, however.

Bourne goes from country to country and speaks the languages but, most important, when he's in Germany he looks German, and in Russia he looks Russian.

I mean, George Clooney's gonna stick out in those countries, but not Damon.

Excellent script, with lots of droll, amusing exchanges:

"He made a mistake. Or he's just moving randomly."

"They don't make mistakes. And they don't do random."

"Then what's he doing? Who's giving him his instructions?"

"Worst-case scenario? He is."

Even though you think you've seen all the car chase scenes you ever need to see, the one in this film, through Moscow, is compelling.

I rate the movie a very entertaining 3.5 stars on the bookofjoe 0-4 star rating scale.

Well worth your five bucks to see what $40 million looks like onscreen.