What Happened?

Rating: 4/10 (10 August 2012)

I feel that it is my duty to take some time to write a review on this movie; I had to create an IMDb account just to write it. I'm not going to spend a long time writing a cute review because I've already spent $50 and 2 hours of my life in this endeavor. I saw each previous Bourne movie in theaters and own two of them; they were unbelievable with awesomely choreographed fight scenes, Jason Bourne ingenuity, and heart-racing and stopping action and suspense! HOWEVER, this Bourne Legacy movie somehow does have the same artistry of the others; there is significantly more dialog; many of the action scenes were so fast that I could not determine what had just happened; the pursuer team was so impotent that they were laughable; the musical score was sub-par in comparison; etc. There are only a hand full of movies that I've seen in my life that it has crossed my mind to leave while watching, and this was one of them. The best part of the movie was the first 30 minutes, and then the story just got lost. To add insult to injury, they play the hip and edgy Bourne them song when the credits rolled as in the other Bourne movies. Unfortunately, this just reminded me of how far the movie had missed the mark. Due to the unneeded complication of the story, I cannot even recommend this movie as one to rent when it arrives as a video rental; I wish that I could. I'm very disappointed.