Great Acting but no plot or conclusion to the film

Rating: 6/10 (30 August 2012)

i saw this film today hoping that it would be new and exciting however i was very disappointed with it. Both Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz are great actors which is clearly seen as they try to make the best of this film and their shallow characters. However, the film is still a big let down and is ironically giving the Bourne franchise a bad 'legacy'.
Firstly, the film started off okay, giving us a good build up, although it was quite slow to really kick off. From there on, there was no plot. It was simply avoid getting shot which frustrated me because i expected a big story line as it was a Bourne film. It felt to me like the whole film was one big build-up to a big finale that never happened. It's as if they cut the last half an hour of the film off. Even though the action scene's had the fast vehicles and gunfire that the Bourne films usually have, which was some enjoyment, there was no clever escape plans or scheme's to kill the bad guy.
Finally, there was no villain. I pretty sure it was supposed to be Edward Norton but his great acting talents were wasted. All he did was sit in an office and bark orders, if i remember correctly, i don't even think he left the CIA building. This is a double fault really because obviously if you have no clear villain then how are you going to have a good ending. For example, in the other Bourne films there is always one man who is the clear villain, Alexander Conklin (Identity), Ward Abbot (Supremacy) and Noah Vosen (Ultimatum). Which is probably why this film had a terrible ending.