Jason Bourne is turning in his grave

Rating: 6/10 (2 December 2012)

Jason Bourne is dead and buried. Robert Ludlum wrote three books about him and that was it. Hollywood took the books and turned them into movies that are remotely similar to the books, but the merit was more Matt Damon's than anyone else's, in my opinion.
Fast forward to the Legacy. It is a film that has nothing to do with Bourne other than a hook to start the story. The details and complexities that transpired into the Bourne scripts from the books were non existent in this film. The oversimplified plot finds a rather plain secret agent from "yet another" government secret program running for his life together with Rachel Weisz.
While I like Jeremy Renner and I think he can do a lot in the movie business, his role was ridiculously unidimensional. Rachel Weisz's role was not much better, but was actually the more complex in the film and she played it well. The other stars in the cast could have been any number of actors, since their acting skills were not required in their small and cardboard roles.
Bottom line: I have to give kudos to the trailer. It didn't give up anything about Renner's character or the general plot, therefore enabling the belief that the film has anything to do with Jason Bourne. It has earned a lot of money to undeserving people. Alas, the legacy of Robert Ludlum will not be found in movies, especially Hollywood ones, so go reread the Bourne books and skip this failure of a film.
As a separate point, there is a Bourne Legacy book, the first in a series of seven, written by Eric Van Lustbader. They have nothing to do with this film.