Bourne's legacy should have been a helluva trilogy...

Rating: Null/10 (12 August 2012)

Instead of this weird and at times incomprehensible jumble of a movie! This is another thoroughly unnecessary, sequel, prequel, re-booth or whatever this film was supposed to be.
It is entirely too long, and I'm usually the last to complain about a movie's length when its quality equals its running time, but not in this case. They could have easily cut 15-20 minutes from the movie and none would have been the wiser.
The Bourne trilogy was very good as it was and did NOT need another movie added to it. Matt Damon re-invigorated his career playing Jason Bourne, while Doug Lyman and Paul Greengrass with Tony Gilroy as their go to screenwriter, showed what talent and creativity can produce by literally turning the spy thriller genre on its head! Proof is in the pudding as they say and the two subsequent James Bond movies reflected that new reality. Craig's 007, is, like Damon's Bourne, a much more somber, violent and unpredictable man, with a penchant for close-quarters-combat and revenge.
"The Bourne Legacy" was an unfocused, at times meandering and messy film. Which is kind of surprising, given that Tony Gilroy's directorial debut was the superb "Michael Clayton", I don't know, but I expected more..I mean what was the deal with that whole episode with the wolf, I mean I know and understood what happened in it and its purpose. Still, I gotta ask, really?!
The cast was alright and while I like Jeremy Renner as an actor, "The Hurt Locker, "The Town" and now "The Avengers", he really did not shine like his usual self in this movie. It looked like he tried to step into Damon's shoes and continue his ( no pun intended) legacy, however that did not work at all...Rachek Weisz was OK but the rest of the cast was just there...
I hope that they really stop making anymore Bourne movies, with no Bourne in them.
However, given Hollywood's on-going identity crisis and lack of originality and creativity, I doubt that we've seen the last of "Bourne's universe", which in this movie fan's humble opinion would be a mistake!