The Bourne Supremacy

It's not high art, and the protagonist's emotional push was inevitable, but it's refreshing to see an action movie made without so many computer-generated special effects (the early Bond films were proud of their real-life stunts) or reliance on technological plot devices. I wasn't even too disturbed by the notion that a girl born in 1979 was supposed to be able to hold down a high-level CIA job. (Katie Holmes posing as an Assistant DA in "Batman Begins", on the other hand, irked me to no end.) The movie also made me wax sentimental for Europe, especially so every time I recognized the Westin Grand in Berlin, where I spent several nights of my honeymoon. Rated 3.