The Bourne Legacy (2012)

The Bourne Legacy (2012)

Directed by: Tony Gilroy
Screenplay by: Tony Gilroy and Dan Gilroy

Genre: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Running Time: 135 Minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Viewed: Theater

There was never just one.

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Comments: I took a couple vacation days from work this week, as I've gone pretty much the whole year without using any. One of the main things I wanted to do was to go see The Bourne Legacy, even though some of the early reviews I read were a bit so-so on the whole thing. I went into the film with tempered expectations, but I was happy to realize that I really enjoyed myself over the two hour period. There's two negative things that stuck out to me: it's a little too long, and parts of the film felt like they were copies of the earlier Bourne films (and I had hoped Matt Damon would've at least made a cameo). Beyond that, however, I fucking enjoyed myself. I've been a Jeremy Renner fan since The Hurt Locker, and after seeing him in the latest Mission Impossible film I had no doubts he could hold his own in a frenetic action thriller like The Bourne Legacy. The interactions between Renner and Rachel Weisz felt eerily similar to Damon and Franka Potente, but I enjoyed the film enough that I was able to overlook it.

If you've enjoyed the Bourne film franchise so far, I highly doubt that you'd leave The Bourne Legacy disappointed. It's pretty fun, and if it leads to a fifth film with both Damon and Renner, I'm all for it.