I'd say it's more of the same but it wasn't that good

Rating: 6/10 (26 August 2012)

This movie overlaps Matt Damon's Bourne and attempts to flesh out some of the reasons for the program's "success" in Bourne and others, positing that it wasn't through massive amounts of high-quality yet unethical physical and psychological training but genetic manipulation that made the operatives such a threat. This DNA manipulation was perpetuated through the use of pills devised and created by lowly lab technicians who didn't know the extent to what the little blue pills would be used for, or the green ones, or the yellow ones... Alice in Wonderland or The Matrix proposed a better use of ingestibles.
But even giving this plot line a pass, and just looking at the film itself, comparisons to Matt Damon's classic series is inevitable. This movie does not shirk from that comparison, but tries to interweave some plot points, unfortunately it also regurgitates many of the exact same scenes...with only the geography being different. But running on the roofs in Manila versus running on the roofs in Tunisia, motorcycling through narrow streets add nothing to the overall skill sets we are looking for in genetically altered and able to wage urban warfare" men and the similarities do not bode well for the capable acting skills of Jeremy Renner (he had better fight scenes in MI4: Ghost Protocol). It's been done before and it's now boring, AND Matt Damon did it better, mostly because the plot was better and really worked in his favor.
Treadstone, Blackbriar, and other failed government programs are re-written here for no apparent reason. There was no true ultimate villain, there was not a series of trained operatives fighting one another, there was simply a few flashbacks, a lot of cops, security guards, some agents clearly over their head, and the pills as the major protagonists.
Wait for Netflix/Red Box/cable whatever, this really isn't anywhere near the calibre of the previous Bourne movies.