Two years after the events in The Bourne Identity, Bourne and his girlfriend, Marie Kreutz, are living in Goa, India. Bourne is having flashbacks of an assassination in a Berlin hotel. Meanwhile, in Berlin, a CIA officer under Deputy Director Pamela Landy, is trading $3 million for the complete "Neski Files," documents concerning the theft of $30 million from the CIA, seven years earlier. They are to complete the exchange in an office building in Berlin. During the exchange, an assassin named Kirill plants Jason Bourne's fingerprints in the building's basement and proceeds to kill the agent and the source, stealing the files and money. He sells them to Russian oil magnate, Yuri Gretkov.
Attempting to tie up loose ends, Kirill arrives in Goa to kill Bourne, but Bourne spots him and flees with Marie. As he and Marie drive away, Kirill sees Bourne in the driver's seat. As Bourne and Marie near a bridge, the two switch seats, with Bourne preparing to leap from the car to confront Kirill, but Marie tries to talk him out of it, believing violence does not solve everything. The assassin has set up with a rifle, and fires into the driver's seat. Marie is fatally struck in the head, causing the car to veer off the bridge into a river. Jason ends up escaping, having to leave his loved one's body behind. Kirill believes that Bourne is dead. Bourne, however, manages to swim away, undetected. He leaves for Naples, Italy, with money and passports in an attempt to learn why he is again being targeted, as well as to put an end to Treadstone's vendetta.
In Berlin, Landy finds the planted fingerprints and goes to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia to find out whose they are. She discovers that they belong to Bourne and questions Abbott about Treadstone. He admits that he had Conklin killed after a failed mission, but has no idea where Bourne is. Landy tells Abbott that the CIA agent who stole the $30 million was named in the stolen files. A Russian politician, Vladimir Neski, was due to identify the thief. Before he could do so, however, Neski was apparently murdered by his wife in a Berlin hotel, who had procee
ded to commit suicide afterwards. Landy believes that Bourne and Conklin were involved in the theft, and, based on the discovered fingerprints, that Bourne was responsible for the deaths of the CIA officer and source in Berlin. Both Abbott and Landy go to Berlin, hoping to find some trace of Bourne and capture him.Arriving in Naples, Italy, Bourne deliberately uses a known passport under his name. Agents in Langley are notified of Bourne's arrival, and order security to detain him. He incapacitates an Italian Carabinieri officer and his CIA interrogator and copies the agent's SIM card on his own cell phone, then escapes. While driving, Bourne listens in on a call from Landy, learning her name, phone number, and that he is suspected of the recent killings in Berlin. He steals a car and heads to Germany. In Munich, he breaks into another Treadstone agent's house. Upon arrival, the agent, Jarda, tells him Treadstone was shut down following Conklin's murder. He and Bourne are the only remnants of the project. A struggle occurs at the residence, resulting in a dead Jarda. Bourne sets a trap at the home with a gas line and a toaster. The home explodes when backup arrives.
In Amsterdam, Landy and Abbott intercept and debrief Nicky Parsons, Treadstone's handler in Paris. Bourne follows them from a hotel to a CIA office in Berlin. Armed with a rifle and phone from a neighboring roof, Bourne calls Landy's phone, questioning her intentions. She tells him it is because he killed two people in Berlin. Although Landy is refering to the agents, he thin ks she is refering to Neski and his wife. He arranges to meet Nicky at the Alexanderplatz, where he uses a crowded anti-capitalist protest to evade surveillance. He leads Nicky to the subway station and interrogates her, revealing that Abbott was the head of Treadstone, not Conklin. Bourne's flashbacks of
Neski's assassination at the Brecker Hotel return, but Nicky knows nothing about the Neski killing. Upon hearing their conversation over Nicky's transmitter, Landy begins to believe that Bourne is being framed. To the surprise of Landy and Abbott, Bourne lets Nicky go unharmed. Back at the office, the young CIA agent, Danny Zorn, becomes positive Bourne is being framed after examining the scene of the agents' murder. After revealing his belief to Abbott, Abbott stabs him to death, proving his involvement in the conspiracy.Bourne revisits the Brecker Hotel in Berlin and begins to remember more of his Neski mission. He was sent to kill Neski on Conklin's orders; when Neski's wife unexpectedly showed up, he shot her, then positioned the scene to appear a murder-suicide. The German police arrive after the hotel's lobby report Bourne as wanted, which interrupts Bourne's flashback and forces him to escape via the building's exterior. Escaping them, Bourne breaks into Abbott's hotel room and records a conversation between him and Gretkov that incriminates Abbott and Gretkov in the theft of the money. Abbott also confesses that he ordered the assassination in Goa, Neski's murder by Bourne, the murder of the agents by Kirill, and the planted fingerprints at the scene. Out of respect for Marie's beliefs in non-violence, Bourne spares Abbott's life. Zorn's body is discovered at the office and Landy, realizing Abbott killed him, goes to confront Abbott, who shoots himself out of guilt. Landy finds the tape on Abbott's desk.
Bourne travels to Moscow to find Neski's daughter, where he is shot and wounded by Kirill. After an extended high-speed chase through Moscow, Bourne forces Kirill to crash in a tunnel, killing him. Gretkov is arrested by Russian police due to Landy providing them with the evidence she got from Bourne. Bourne proceeds to the apartment of Neski's daughter, where he informs her that her mother did not kill her father then commit suicide; Bourne had killed them both on a mission gone wrong. He apologizes for killing them.
In the film's final scene, the camera cuts to New York City. Bourne contacts Landy by cell phone, asking why the CIA is still looking for him. Landy then thanks Bourne for supplying the tape, which the CIA has used to settle matters concerning his frame-up. Before Bourne hangs up, Landy reveals to Bourne that his real name is David Webb and that his birthdate is "Four, fifteen, seventy one". When she suggests that Bourne come in to discuss the matter, Bourne declines by simply stating, "Get some rest, Pam; you look tired." The film then ends with Bourne fading into a New York City crowd.
My Rating : ****
Genre : Action/Thriller
Director : Paul Greengrass
Cast : Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban, Gabriel Mann, Joan Allen.
