Matt Damon Shines in Bourne Supremacy as Halle Berry Suffers a Cat-astrophe
July 23, 2004 — -- Now in theaters: Catwoman and The Bourne Supremacy.
Catwoman
Halle Berry is a fine actress. Not only did she win an Oscar, she deserved to win an Oscar. But this movie asks her to do something not even she can do: Play someone who can't get a date. Hollywood, are you nuts?
This project — years in the making — somehow ended up in the hands of a special effects director who has never directed a feature. And he doesn't have a clue.
Movies aren't about special effects. They are about stories, and this film doesn't have one.
At a price tag of nearly $100 million, Catwoman is an extravagant setup for a series of sequels. But Hollywood forgot something: You need a good first film so audiences will want a sequel.
The film starts with Halle floating and a voiceover where she says something about how she died. That's how Billy Wilder started Sunset Boulevard.
Ten minutes later we see her die. A tidal wave of water knocks her dead. That's out of the Tommy Lee Jones version of The Fugitive, but the film is so incompetently made I'm not sure the director was aware of the thefts.
The climactic catfight with Sharon Stone took nine days to film. But it's edited so incompetently that it's almost impossible to tell the two women were in the same room at the same time.
The best effect? Halle Berry's pupils morph into cat eyes. The best part of the film? It's just 90 minutes long. The perfect length for a cat nap.
Halle, next time work with a real director. Cats may have nine lives. Movie stars don't. Grade: D
Bourne Supremacy
In his second turn as the hero from the Robert Ludlum spy novels, Matt Damon comes in from the cold and enters the cool. The Bourne Supremacy is a dynamite paranoid thriller.
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