In the capable hands of Doug Liman, 2002's "The Bourne Identity" was able to cast off the creaky shackles of the conventional espionage thriller thanks to a kinetic energy that agreeably propelled the genre into the next millennium. For "The Bourne Supremacy," based on the second novel in the Robert Ludlum series, the director of "Swingers" and "Go" has gone (he still remains as one of the executive producers) but not before handing the reins to British filmmaker Paul Greengrass. For his previous film, the blistering "Bloody Sunday," Greengrass brought a vital, documentary feel to his retelling of the 1972 civil rights march in Northern Ireland that ended tragically, with his handheld, darting cameras creating the desired effect of plunging the viewer right into the middle of the chaos.

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