Not the Legacy Bourne deserved

Rating: 5/10 (6 March 2014)

I have recently seen the Bourne trilogy and loved all three of them so my excitement for this 4th instalment was high going in to watch it. However, this wasn't the film I wanted or expected, I believe having the franchise name of Bourne attached to this film really hurt me even more when it was kind of a mess. This film is based at a similar time of The Bourne ultimatum with a new agent Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) in his own situation with the CIA. The main problem with this film is that for a Bourne film this is a surprisingly boring film for at least the first hour with little happening. This character of Aaron Cross is just not as likable or interesting as Matt Damon's iconic character Jason Bourne and this hurts the film as Jason Bourne is mentioned throughout. I must say that Jeremy Renner's performance is good but as I said before he just isn't Jason Bourne and one of my favourite parts of this film is seeing the characters from the previous films and how it links with this film. Also the end action sequence is the one part where this film feels like Bourne and is one of the times I thought it was awesome. This along with the tense fighting scenes are the strength of this film whereas the narrative isn't to the par of the other Bourne's or other films. I hope that there is a 5th Bourne film with the original Director and Matt Damon coming back as Jason Bourne, if this isn't going to happen then this should be the end of Bourne for now until it eventually gets fully rebooted.