The Bourne Legacy Movie Reviews

Jeremy Renner finally gets his due. After performing consistently over the years and then standing next to Tom Cruise in 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol', he finally manages to land a central protagonist and that too in a series as strong as 'Bourne'. He had huge shoes to fill, what with Matt Damon being the face of the series for three films in succession. However to Jeremy's credit, he doesn't make one miss his far more

"We are the sin-eaters. Morally indefensible but totally necessary." So says National Research Assay Group's Edward Norton to a soldier with moral quibbles played by Jeremy Renner. He could well have said it about this fourth instalment in the Bourne series -- morally indefensible but given the success of the previous three Bourne outings, some would say, totally necessary

The Bourne Identity opened with a body suspended in the Mediterranean, motionlessly afloat, like an embryo in amniotic brine. The hallucinatory image, it turned out, was eerily appropriate. The body, we discovered, belonged to a man who’d lost his memory — put differently, he found himself birthed anew, with a newborn’s blank slate. And over the course of three movies, he grew up and gradually filled in the pieces

"We are the sin-eaters. Morally indefensible but totally necessary." So says National Research Assay Group's Edward Norton to a soldier with moral quibbles played by Jeremy Renner. He could well have said it about this fourth instalment in the Bourne series -- morally indefensible but given the success of the previous three Bourne outings, some would say, totally necessary

The Bourne Legacy is the story of a man who needs some medication and spends the whole movie trying to get it. This is good medicine. As the film opens, he dives naked into a river in Alaska, brings up a sealed tube from the bottom, takes a little blue pill and a little green pill, wraps himself in a thermal blanket by his fire, then backpacks across a mountain range while fighting off wolves. Some of the climbing involves steep walls

Just before The Bourne Legacy gets its game on, the franchise’s new face, played by Jeremy Renner, comes out of the Alaskan wilderness to take refuge in a cabin. There he meets another of his kind, a superspy with a scowl and enough artillery to invade a small country. By the time they’ve grudgingly warmed up to each other an unmanned drone is blasting everything to bits. It’s an effectively blunt opener for a series that from its start has tracked

The Bourne Identity opened with a body suspended in the Mediterranean, motionlessly afloat, like an embryo in amniotic brine. The hallucinatory image, it turned out, was eerily appropriate. The body, we discovered, belonged to a man who’d lost his memory — put differently, he found himself birthed anew, with a newborn’s blank slate. And over the course of three movies, he grew up and gradually filled in the pieces

The fundamental problem with 'The Bourne Legacy' is that it contains too much talking and very little action. It’s a far cry from the earlier Bourne films, particularly Supremacy and Ultimatum, both directed by Paul Greengrass whose frenetic shaky-camera shooting style and breathless direction turned those films into smart, realistic action-thrillers. Tony Gilroy, who’s co-written and directed 'The Bourne Legacy'