A Good Addition To The Bourne Movie Franchise

Rating: 9/10 (6 April 2013)

The Bourne Legacy is an action thriller film directed that are based on Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne novels. It is the fourth installment in the series. The film stars Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, and Edward Norton together with franchise veterans Albert Finney, Joan Allen, David Strathairn and Scott Glenn. Tony Gilroy, co-screenwriter of the first three films, sought to continue the story of the film series without changing its events and directed the movie.
Aaron Cross is a member of Operation Outcome,a US Defense Department black ops program which employs pills referred to as chems that enhance the physical and mental abilities of field operatives. Cross is assigned to Alaska for a training exercise, where he must survive certain activities and traverse rugged terrain in order to arrive at a remote cabin. The cabin is operated by an exiled Outcome operative, Number Three, who informs Cross that he broke the mission record by two days. Meanwhile, a British reporter who was writing on operations Treadstone and Blackbriar is assassinated. The Blackbriar and Treadstone programs are publicly exposed, leading the FBI and the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to investigate CIA Director Ezra Kramer, Deputy Director Pamela Landy, Blackbriar supervisor Noah Vosen, and Treadstone clinical researcher Dr Albert Hirsch. Kramer requests help from Eric Byer, a retired US Air Force colonel responsible for overseeing the CIA's clandestine operations. Byer discovers a potentially damaging video on the internet in which the lead researchers for Treadstone and Outcome appear together at professional functions in public. To prevent the Treadstone investigation from finding out about Outcome, Byer decides to shut Outcome down and kill its agents. He sees the sacrifice as acceptable because the government has separately initiated next-generation beta programs, including the supersoldier program LARX.Byer deploys a UAV to eliminate Number Three and Cross.Cross hears the drone's approach and leaves moments before a missile destroys the cabin with Number Three inside.
The Bourne Legacy is by no means a bad film. Unfortunately, it just has trouble living up to the real world Jason Bourne 'legacy.'It couldn't ever hope to match the Paul Greengrass/Matt Damon movies for sheer punch and propulsion, but it's as close to replicating them as you could expect, and marks another excellent entry into the Bourne movie franchise.It may not be the thriller the first three films managed to be but it's well written and very entertaining.