The Bourne Legacy
2012 Directed by Tony Gilroy
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There Was Never Just One
The fourth installment of the highly successful Bourne series sidelines main character Jason Bourne in order to focus on a fellow estranged assassin Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner). The story centers on new CIA operative, Aaron Cross as he experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne. Edward Norton and Rachel Weisz co-star, with Joan Allen and Albert Finney reprising their roles from the previous films.
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So the big question is, does a Bourne movie work without Jason Bourne? The answer is a big fat disappointing no. With both director and star no longer interested in being involved in the franchise it took a novel sidestep to allow the studio to continue to milk this particular cash cow. Early signs were at least encouraging. Series writer, Tony Gilroy, would take over directing duties whilst rather than simply recasting the key role it takes the braver move of following an entirely new character involved in the top secret CIA experiments. Yet by being both close to, but still different from, the earlier Bourne films it comes across as a second rate mongrel.
It keeps doggedly to the…
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The one where they find the steady cam button.
Well.... sort of.
I am a big fan of the first Bourne film and really can't stand the follow ups due to Greengrass' shaky cam fetish. This probably had an influence on my rating of this film, but to say that was the main reason is selling this film short.
I didn't really expect much from it and that's mainly due to the trailer. It hinted at an action packed chase film, with the 'new Bourne' running around like a super human soldier. I can honestly say that this trailer is incredibly misleading as what we really get is a dialogue heavy, well directed and well acted thriller that is engaging…
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I liked Renner and Weisz well enough but EVERY CHARCTER is written as people I could not give two shits about and this series has really become watered down formula at this point and the story is just a rehashed plot we've seen 3 times already. No surprises at all. A Bourne film has yet to resolve it's plot. Save it for the next one. Sorely missed the Damon-factor.
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There's hints of brilliance here, hints of some excellent mind-games between the perfectly cast Renner and Norton, but it rarely comes to fruition. The script lets its players down in a big way, never using what it has to full potential, and possesses one of the most frustrating, unsatisfying endings ever.
But unsatisfying endings don't matter in this world of sequels, right? Sigh.
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I didn't have much desire to see this, but my friend had it so I thought what the hell I'll give it a go.
It was particularly bad or good. There's some decent action, but it's nothing special and nothing we haven't seen before. I'd say I liked it better than the second Bourne film but that's not saying much. The plot is paper thin as is the character development. If you're going to insert a new character into the lead of a pretty well liked action/thriller series you might want to give him some depth, I'm just saying. Jeremy Renner is fine here there's just not much to the character or the story. It feel like he's just there…
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Jeremy Renner, the man-sized dwarf, offers a bland central performance to match the bland, overly long film.
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Kellemes bőrnyúzás a Bourne-franchise -ról, de nem igazán emelkedik ki a tömegből. Egyszer érdemes megnézni, a kategóriájában egész jó film.
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Despite hearing poor reviews I thought I'd check out The Bourne Legacy, partly because I enjoyed director Tony Gilroy's first feature Michael Clayton, and second because I'd watch anything with Ed Norton in it. Unfortunately the critics were right and this was a shocking disappointment. While I tried to ignore the previous Bourne films and take this on its own grounds, Gilroy insists on reminding you every other second that there is a whole other (and better) movie going on behind the scenes. This is done with sloppy overly-long exposition and crude plot reminders which don't allow this film the space it needs to stand on its own.
Perhaps the film's biggest problem is its lack of likable characters. Jeremy…
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I'm not keen on Renner but this was an exciting Action/Thriller and a worthy semi-sequel to the original films. 8/10.
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A lean 100-minute thriller bloated unnecessarily to 135 minutes. I'm fine with the shift in tone from the previous films, and I'm fine with a deepening of the Bourne universe. What I'm not fine with are long scenes in which we watch characters think out what we've known other characters were going to do for 20 minutes. It's too light of a story to warrant the intense treatment it's given, and better films than this deserve revisiting to sort out the details.
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Pretty uneven movie, the beginning required a lot of exposition, they try to weave it together in an interesting way, but it makes the pacing feel odd, it takes about 30-40 mins before everything is setup and ready to go, and the movie really starts moving once both leads are together, and they are great when they are, the movie felt way better once they started interacting. The ending caught me by surprise, they resolve very little, they get him off the meds, which was a weird McGuffin to begin with... 13 IQ points below the needed for army recruitment? That sounds like Corky level IQ, which makes no sense with him then being drafted for a super secret assassin team.
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Jeremy Renner, the man-sized dwarf, offers a bland central performance to match the bland, overly long film.
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Mala de cojones. No se puede pretender crear una conexión con las anteriores simplemente metiendo a los secundarios con calzador de vez en cuando por ahí.
Además este tío no sabe actuar. Huir. -
Boring. Asian Terminator is kinda cool but arrives too late and then doesn't do much except chase a lot...
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A surprisingly likeable ostensible-continuation of the franchise. Edward Norton is particularly excellent. But it's Bourne in name only, and its weak connection to the previous three films makes it hard to justify as a "Bourne" film.