Poorly executed & average

Rating: 5/10 (18 August 2012)

The short version: started out interesting, ended dull.
The long: Jeremy Renner steps up as another Treadstone assassin, but he's hampered by the lack of decent script. Aside from an interesting initial 15 minutes, it ends up being the same story as the other 3 Bourne films: a US government assassin on the run from a bunch of other US assassins who want to kill him, is thrown together with an attractive woman, and who both manage to escape to the tropics with a FU message to Uncle Sam.
The problem here is that it's the same story. For the fourth time. Yes, there is a difference in the details, but not enough to make it worthwhile. Renner does an decent job as the new "hero", and so does the lovely Rachel Weiss. The stunts and set pieces are okay, but largely seen-it-before. The chase scene on the rooftops brought back memories of the excellent opening to "Casino Royale", but it was nowhere near as good.
The film takes place around the time of the 2nd Matt Damon Bourne film, but that's all it really has in connection to it, and after 15 minutes, any opportunity for a different kind of Bourne film is irretrievably lost. After that point the script devolves into a very generic story that fails to gain any sort of momentum. There's some little exploration of who Renner was before the Treadstone/Alcon drugs etc, but it's really just a plot point rather than a story.
Average film. Could have better used the $125M to feed starving children. 5 out of 10.