The Bourne Legacy

[DAR]

It's sort of okayish. C

[Blankments]

The Bourne Legacy is an overlong slog that also is one of the most shameless sequels ever. A Bourne movie in name only, it infamously lacks Matt Damon and replaces him with a dull Jeremy Renner. It also wastes a tremendously talented cast featuring Edward Norton, Oscar Isaac, and Corey Stoll all in thankless underwritten roles. The action is much too sparse, and the script is notably worse than any other film in this franchise. It's insulting that Gilroy got Allen, Strathairn, and Finney onboard for cameos that basically are just epilogues to Ultimatum that are otherwise completely unrelated to the story at hand. The film clearly realizes the audience will lack interest in its own story when it ends the film with these scenes in rapid succession, giving Aaron Cross's story no resolution whatsoever. The Bourne Legacy would be a bad blockbuster in general, but as a Bourne film, it is outright atrocious and an insult to the franchise. D-