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The Bourne Identity's love interest (Franca Potente) added so much depth to the first in the trilogy. Bourne had someone else, someone vulnerable to protect from evil.
I got the feeling The Bourne Supremacy producers must have listened to a focus group of NASCAR meatheads and replaced the tender interludes with long, repetitive car chases. As soon as the next predictable race-the-streets-of-Europe sequence begins, if you are sick of the cliche car chase genre, it's a great time for a rest room break and some fresh popcorn, knowing that the next six minutes of screen time will be nothing but 1/4 second jump cuts and lots of screeching tires and crunching metal.
I'm looking forward to the Ultimatum, even the ridiculous and obligatory car chase. That's a good time to take a pee and get some popcorn.
