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Movie of the Week: The Bourne Legacy
Aug. 25th, 2012 04:13 amAugust has been a thin month at the cinema and we've had two weeks which yielded no watchable movies, but this week The Bourne Legacy looked like a good bet and indeed it was. It's a Bourne movie (without Bourne himself) working on the premise that 'there was never just one.' So here we have the second generation of super-spies, physically and mentally enhanced by doses of regular meds.
But the repercussions from the events at the end of the the third Bourne movie are still being felt in Washington. Jason Bourne is on the loose. Out there. Somewhere. The high-ups are running scared and decide that their best option is to burn the programme to the ground and retain the data for a fresh start once the dust has settled, making the enhanced operatives and the research and medical staff surplus to requirements in a fatal kind of way.
And the rest is a roller-coaster ride as agent Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) goes on the lam with Dr Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz). Renner makes a good showing after being eclipsed by the stellar cast of Avengers Assemble (in which he played the under-used Hawkeye). I'd go so far as to say that if the Bond role came vacant I'd vote for him.
The only downside is an overlong car chase. When will directors of action movies realise that enough is enough already? Yes, it's a car chase, we get it. It's about someone trying to get away from someone else and there are thrills, spills and excitement... and more thrills, spills and excitement... and more thrills, spills and excitement... and... Yeah, right. Stop making me dizzy and Get On With The Plot!
Even with the car chase it's still highly recommended.
But the repercussions from the events at the end of the the third Bourne movie are still being felt in Washington. Jason Bourne is on the loose. Out there. Somewhere. The high-ups are running scared and decide that their best option is to burn the programme to the ground and retain the data for a fresh start once the dust has settled, making the enhanced operatives and the research and medical staff surplus to requirements in a fatal kind of way.
And the rest is a roller-coaster ride as agent Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) goes on the lam with Dr Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz). Renner makes a good showing after being eclipsed by the stellar cast of Avengers Assemble (in which he played the under-used Hawkeye). I'd go so far as to say that if the Bond role came vacant I'd vote for him.
The only downside is an overlong car chase. When will directors of action movies realise that enough is enough already? Yes, it's a car chase, we get it. It's about someone trying to get away from someone else and there are thrills, spills and excitement... and more thrills, spills and excitement... and more thrills, spills and excitement... and... Yeah, right. Stop making me dizzy and Get On With The Plot!
Even with the car chase it's still highly recommended.
