For some films, there will always be an opening for a continuation.

Rating: 7/10 (28 August 2012)

We're on vacation. School has started so we flipped a coin: Expendables II or Bourne Legacy. We wanted action. We got it.
Legacy has a very thick, foggy start. You can't really tell whats coming until it's almost in your face. You got pills that seem really important. You got someone that seems to be running from something in a heavily snowed in mountain range. You meet people you have never seen before that have no history. In light of that, it's best to watch without weighing in on how it fits into the Bourne series. But slowly daylight grows and the plot becomes clear: Treadstone has mutated into splinter factions and the technology is still growing.
In many ways similar to Ridley Scotts last adventure Prometheus, we find ourselves in a alternate time line where one story overlaps another. With a few well place cameo's the director (Tony Gilroy who penned the previous Bourne blockbusters) runs a parallel story about chemically altered soldiers and their fate when Tredstone is under the magnifying glass. There are many elaborate action sequences, and the editing should cause ones nervous systems to collapse and convulse. Granted, the supersoldiers are enhanced to limit pain receptors, but nothing should outrun death so many times in such a short time frame.
Paul Greengrass would have been proud of the editor,but thankfully we did not have to endure the shaky cam. I would go as far as to say it was a good popcorn movie, however the popcorn sold at this venue was stale with the texture of styrofoam. My verdict is that it is a weak story with competitive action sequences. I would also say a bit overwhelming for kids under the age of 10, but seeing we saw this on the first day of school we did not have to contend with this. Theater was up to snuff: the digital media for both audio and sound were excellent - which always adds to an experience. -B