Disappointing

Rating: 6/10 (14 August 2012)

Having loved the previous Bourne films that have been released I went into this with reasonably high expectations, though sadly I left disappointing.Whilst watching this I was consistently reminded how amazing the first three films in this series were, and how no matter how hard they try they cannot live up in this recent addition.
The thing that made the first three films great was the mystery around the character Jason Bourne and his past life, though sadly in this film they choose to focus more on the companies behind these programs, than on developing the character Jeremy Renner portrays. By doing this it stopped me from really engaging in the story and left me not really caring what happened to any characters in the film, which is good because the ending is fairly abrupt and nothing is answered in terms of the Jason Bourne mystery that some may have hoped. Not all the acting is terrible because as always Edward Norton does a very good job portraying the man trying desperately to keep everything under wraps and burn the projects, though I felt he was underused in the grand scheme of things especially towards the ending.
Many people have commented on the fact that the fight/ chase scenes are well done, though even these great scenes just left recollecting scenes from the previous in which they were more intense. The chase scene towards the end of the movie, just served to remind me of the chase scene that was in the "Bourne Supremacy", which had a more satisfying conclusion.
This isn't an awful movie and there are worse films that you could end up going to see this summer, though there are also better ones, such as "The Dark Knight rises". If you want to learn about the companies behind the Bourne films then your questions will be slightly answered here, though don't expect anything as good as we have come to expect from this series.