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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs  I saw The Bourne Legacy at the cinema this morning/afternoon and it is, by far, the weakest film to bear the name so far. I found Jeremy Renner's genetically modified superspy to be far less interesting than Matt Damon's amnesiac and there are way too many – and too long – scenes of expository dialogue which I actually found pretty dull.
Furthermore, like The Quantum of Solace, the B unit footage didn't properly marry with the rest of the film so it was clunky and jarring when it cut from one to the other. Renner is an excellent action actor and really looks the part, but I never felt the action sequences were properly intertwined with the 'boardroom' scenes, something which Paul Greengrass did perfectly with Supremacy and Ultimatum.
Perhaps its biggest failing is that Legacy felt very long and there were periods when my attention wandered, which hadn't happened in any of the previous three films. |
Can't say I'm terribly surprised by this, the film somewhat screamed 'cash-grab' to me from the beginning. 2012 for me hasn't been the best year for action film,
The Raid for me being the one truly great highlight. Mind you, I'm hoping
Expendables 2 is watchable.