Ironically Ignores The Legacy of Previous Movies

Rating: 3/10 (16 December 2012)

Paul Greengrass hints that he will never make another film and this sequel, made with scant regard to the artistry with which he redefined the action hero for the twenty first century, perhaps seals that deal.
Where Greengrass's Bourne was a psychological Frankenstein's monster, eating his own soul with every act of violence he had to commit, Renner's character is explicitly a genetically manipulated killer in a storyline more in line with popcorn superheroics than verite style parable.
Where Greengrass made the world, the post-Communist and hyper-capitalist modern planet, a character, he makes a fearsome obstacle machine. Damon's Bourne could, at any moment, have been killed.
Greengrass's brilliance is lamentably and very obviously absent from this profiteering production.