The narrative architect behind the "Bourne" film series, Tony Gilroy, takes the helm in the next chapter of the hugely popular espionage franchise that has earned almost $1 billion at the global box office.
The writer/director expands the "Bourne" universe created by Robert Ludlum with an original story that introduces us to a new hero (Jeremy Renner) whose life-or-death stakes have been triggered by the events of the first three films.
For "The Bourne Legacy," Renner joins fellow series newcomers Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach and Oscar Isaac, while franchise veterans Albert Finney, Joan Allen, David Strathairn and Scott Glenn reprise their roles.
Most Bourne fanatics would probably find it very hard to warm up to their new hero, Aaron Cross, not because Jeremy Renner does a bad job playing him but because the writers fail to entice his character to the audience as they did with Jason Bourne. Personally I think they spend too much time trying to justify the making of The Bourne Legacy, than slowly bringing the new character into life. They try to do what they did with Matt Damon’s character in three movies in one.
The director’s chair moves from Paul Greengrass to Tony Gilroy, wh0 wrote the other three instalments. The only sad thing is Tony Gilroy’s other directing credits are “Michael Clayton and Tilda Swinton which hardly qualify as action flicks. His in-experience of action flicks is evidence in the one on one action scenes. The swag and the sharpness that Matt oozed is missing, as a result each scene looks too rehearsed.
Overall the storyline is put together well and the integration of some scenes from the Bourne Supremacy movie to the new one is cleverly done.
Rating: 3/5
Release Date: 21 September 2012Starring: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Albert Finney, Joan Allen, Scott Glenn, Stacy Keach, Oscar Isaac,
Dude do u want us to watch this movie or not? You sound too critical.
ReplyDeleteI'm watching it regardless.
ReplyDeleteBourne Legacy here I come.
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