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Rating: 6/10 (5 September 2012)

The Bourne Legacy can't seem to decide what it wants to be and once you sort of gather what it wants to be you are quite underwhelmed. Set in the aftermath of Jason Bourne's story, the film picks up with a new agent Aaron Cross who's like Jason Bourne only he's not. The film consists of the usual people looking at large screens, using headsets trying to decipher what's going on while attempting to get the bottom of the Aaron Cross character. At least that is what I gathered from the film. There wasn't really much else to really take into account. Cross, a member of another agency (not Treadstone) requires pills all the time and needs help from Dr Martha Shearing to obtain. Meanwhile there are the computer screens as mentioned. The film's key problem is that it spends a great deal of time on exposition and pseudo attempts to explain what on Earth is going on. The trouble is that it fails. All of the flaws in the film are attributed to writing as I came out thinking 'okay then' and not much else. The acting is at least very good and Renner in particularly tries to bring something to a role that not many probably wanted. That is the film really it didn't really have much of a story to tell which is why it is of course left quite open ended, I say open ended. It is more like the film had stopped and then the obligatory cue Moby. All in all The Bourne Legacy is not bad and would probably be good for a rental as the action is very good and well shot. It just has little else to offer.