Bourne Legacy was very entertaining escape; FAR better than Total Recall

Rating: 9/10 (18 August 2012)

I go to movies every Saturday morning to escape from the "Stepford Wives" life in corporate America these days and decompress from the week. I just want to feel entertained or engaged. Movies I have seen recently still playing include Ice Age 4, Dark Knight Rises, Total Recall, Bourne Legacy, Brave, The Amazing Spider-Man, and The Watch. While Total Recall and Brave were technically well done, I was not engaged and did not really care that much what happened. Dark Knight was entertaining but too much of plot was on psychological impact from end of last movie. Ice Age 4 was a great movie on its own but especially for the 4th...Peter Dinklage as the voice of the Pirate Captain Gutt was perfect. And while I had not watched any of previous Spiderman movies, I did catch this one and was entertained. And The Watch was actually entertaining for what it was and I was very pleasantly surprised (I also enjoyed Tower Heist as something I would catch many times a year if surfing around the TV). That brings me to Bourne Legacy. Bottom line: I would rank it at the top of this list for engagement and entertainment and have seen it twice as I could not bring myself yet to watch Expendables 2, even though I very much like Bruce Willis (Red) and Jason Statham). And I found the plot actually as interesting as Bourne Supremacy. And it certainly allows for more movies.