Synopsis
There Was Never Just One
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
2012 Directed by Tony Gilroy
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
Jeremy Renner Rachel Weisz Edward Norton Scott Glenn Donna Murphy Joan Allen Nilaja Sun Albert Finney Michael Chernus Michael Papajohn David Strathairn Corey Stoll Stacy Keach Dennis Boutsikaris Sheena Colette Louis Ozawa Corey Johnson Adi Hanash Oscar Isaac Jennifer Kim Robert Christopher Riley Elizabeth Marvel Shane Jacobson Page Leong Alice Gainer Prue Lewarne James Joseph O'Neil Tony Guida Zeljko Ivanek Show All…
Molly Hughes W. Steven Graham Hinju Kim Charlie Campbell Deborah Jensen Stephen H. Carter Marion Kolsby
Leslie E. Rollins Brian Jones Kelly Canfield Jim Cook Damon Hahn Richard Hope Bill Kolpin Ernesto Longo
Hal Couzens Scott M. Davids Seth Kleinberg Vanessa Cheung Michael Bruce Ellis John Heller Gary Nolin Tracey Leadbetter Stephen Enticott
Dino Dimuro Christopher Assells Per Hallberg William R. Dean Peter Staubli Dan Hegeman David Parker Chris Jargo
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was everyone aware this included a scene where Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Marvel engage in hand-to-hand combat
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…
Lacking the stylistic visual flair, kinetic action, charged atmosphere, sense of urgency, hyperactive camerawork, cut-throat editing & almost everything that made The Bourne Trilogy an intensely entertaining ride of non-stop thrills, The Bourne Legacy is an uninspiring & unnecessary fourth chapter that's quite inferior to its predecessors in every department of filmmaking.
Taking place concurrently with the events of The Bourne Ultimatum, the story of The Bourne Legacy concerns Aaron Cross; an assassin-in-training for CIA who goes on the run for his life after the clandestine exposure of their operations in previous movies forces the secret agency to shut down all active operations & terminate every associated member within it with immediate effect.
With Paul Greengrass not returning to direct, it's the screenwriter…
Oh yea what a great idea, next let’s make a Batman movie, with Batman in the title, but no Batman. Instead it stars someone who can do all the same things, played by Chris Evans. Genius.
This doesn’t come remotely close to being as good as any of the first 3 Bourne movies. I originally thought they recasted Matt Damon but nope, Jeremy Renner plays a completely different character.
This may come as a shock, but having Jason Bourne in a Jason Bourne movie is kind of essential.
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…
"We are the sin eaters. It means that we take the moral excrement we find in this equation and we bury it down deep inside of us, so that the rest of our case can stay pure. That is the job. We are morally indefensible, and absolutely necessary."
Remember the great Mini Cooper chase scene in Bourne Identity? The apartment fight and toaster bomb in Supremacy? The rooftop chases in Ultimatum? What is memorable about Bourne Legacy, apart from the divergence in casting? I certainly hope it's not when Rachel Weisz becomes hysterical with that lady psychologist, because that's what I remembered most distinctly about it this second time through, and not in a good way. Why is it that…
I watched this on Prime which is relevant because it glitched and said it was 3 hours long. Then it got to the end and I was like what the hell where it the whole third act of this movie. I thought this must be some director's cut where they put in a whole extra hour about Jeremy Renner wandering around the woods or whatever.
The movie also helped pioneer the thing where they parcel out the work between actors so most of them never have to meet. That way they can get Ed Norton to put in about a week of work and you still get him for half the movie. I guess we are spoiled because a chase…
a more interesting surveillance-state film than i originally thought, if only because it depicts its American intel/military-industrial/corporate megaconspiracy as fundamentally incompetent, quagmired in blowback, endlessly cleaning up its own messes.
Better than Jason Bourne, even with the chems and the ending and the no Damon and shit.
And just how did they manage to round up such an impressive cast?
i know in my brain that i just watched this entire movie but as far as i’m actually aware this is how it went:
INT. DINGY INTERROGATION ROOM
JEREMY RENNER is holding a gun to my head. I am shackled to a desk, my face bloodied.
JEREMY: I SAID name ONE plot point from this movie! ONE SINGLE PLOT POINT!
ME: Rachel Weisz wore a lab coat and it looked damn good!
JEREMY: I said PLOT POINT DAMN IT!
ME: DONNA MURPHY WAS ALSO THERE!
JEREMY: NO! FUCK! PLOT POINT.
ME:
JEREMY:
ME:
JEREMY:
ME (spitting blood out of my mouth): Rachel’s hair looks amazing in a chignon
JEREMY has an aneurysm and dies. I am free to continue my constant accidental disregard of male characters.
There were a couple of camera zooms during conversations that was inappropriate. The thing I disliked most was the sound. I did like the intense camera work in which some close-ups during fight scenes kept the same intensity.
Such a confusing movie, but I did like the tension and action during act 2, but then before I knew it I was wondering when the 3rd act would be over and I could watch a Bourne movie with Jason Bourne aka Matt Damon. Not to discredit Jeremy Renner and the supporting cast however, they were still great - but you get my point and I don’t..... really..... care about this movie and it’s story. Sorry. 🙃
I really don't get why this film got as much backlash as it did. Jeremy Renner was great as a CIA agent/test-subject and the story was very engaging and drew me in pretty early in the film. It is a bit long though and it lost some of my attention in the third act but I still had fun watching it. The pacing is good for the most part and the action scenes are very well done. It does feature some movie-logic but so do all the Jason Bourne movies and that's forgivable.
Overall: better than they say, not better than its predecessors.
79/100
ცოტა არასაჭირო სპინოფი ან ფილმი იყო სერიებში, მარა არაუშავრა. ჯერემი რეინერის უნიჭო დედაშევეცი, მარა მაგას რო თავი გავანებოთ, სტორიც ცოტა ისეთი იყო, ასე მეგონა გზა და გზა იწერებოდა ივენთები. მიდიოდა აარონი, სად მიდიოდა ა ხრენ ივო ზნაეტ. ატსილკები ბორნის ფილმებთან არის აქა იქ, მარა ამის არ-ყურებით არაფერს არ დაკარგავთ. პეისინგი ნორმალური და ჩქარი იყო, აქა-იქ გაწელილი.
Its astounding how good the bourne series is and how bad this movie is. So so boring and uninteresting.
This feels like a generic action movie script they connected to Bourne just to sell it
The first half of this movie is almost completely unnecessary. Much better as a 53 min watch
Sorry I'm confused, was this or was this not the Hawkeye origin story?
Even though this branch of the Bourne story doesn't seems as legit or realistic OR engaging as the original trilogy did, I still believe there is hope for more action stardom for Jeremy Renner and this franchise. I hate he gets sloppy seconds in this, but if he chose to sign on obviously he doesn't care. I thought the chemistry between he and Rachel Weisz was solid. Ed Norton was pretty absent in this film, and I gotta say almost everyone else outside Weisz and Renner was boring. The movie seems to build from the start to the large action scene you've been waiting to see with bits and pieces of what you like throughout, however, I think the trilogy…
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