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…

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…

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…