Brutal Bourne

Director Paul Greengrass is a perfect fit for a movie about government spies and the epic tumult of the early 21st century.

Greengrass has already made two highly emotional movies about the horror of bad people running amok in the real world: "Bloody Sunday,'' about police and the army terrorizing activists in Derry, Ireland, and, "United 93,'' about citizens fighting back when terrorists hijack a United Airlines flight on Sept. 11, 2001.

Greengrass now delivers a volatile and heartbreaking commentary on how spy agencies are out of control because they can't decide who's the enemy: "The Bourne Supremacy.''

CIA operatives and hired assassins gun for amnesiac Matt Damon's Jason Bourne, himself an ex-CIA assassin, because his campaign to uncover his identity may compromise CIA secrets and lies.

Greengrass's high-speed chase movie is a metaphor for the chaos of a world whose most important leaders insist we should be obsessed with the "war on terror." But who's creating the terror? From "The Bourne Supremacy,'' we can conclude that everybody is culpable, especially well-paid government officials.

Talk about terrifying.