Entertaining

Rating: 7/10 (30 November 2012)

Aaron Cross(Renner) is another operative like Bourne. He is currently "posted" at Alaska. Bourne is about to go rogue and Treadstone is closing down all its operations. The agents are being bumped off in different places like Korea and Pakistan. Cross becomes their target. Weisz is a doctor who is associated with the program. all the other doctors are killed in a shooting spree and she somehow escapes. She also becomes a target. There is Edward Norton who is looking after the clean up and elimination of any loose end. The stage is set for thrilling chases and action. This is not a sequel to the trilogy in the original sense of the word. The events here are happening at nearly the same time as the Bourne Ultimatum. It takes a while to understand the story and become oriented with it. This has been criticized as an unnecessary sequel. However, if the aim of the director was to entertain then he largely succeeds. Renner is believable. Weisz only gets to be hysterical. Norton looks and acts the part but still was wasted. The action scenes are few but are well choreographed. The direction by Gilroy who wrote the script for the trilogy is par for the course. This does the old things quite right and hence gets a 3.5 out of 5.