Bourne Dead

Rating: 5/10 (17 August 2013)

As a stand alone movie, this would have been mediocre at best, however since it stole all of it's premises from the Bourne series, it needed to add to it and do so in a delicate way as to not muddy up the waters. It failed. From the trek across the mountains to the predictable close call at the cabin(when the lead guy has to leave suddenly, you know the place is about to go boom), to the house fire and the chase scenes in Manila, the movie wasn't a side story as much as a copycat. Didn't Jason have almost the same motorcycle event and wasn't there also a field agent after him during that event? At least Jason killed the guy, unlike Renner in this story who needed a woman to do it for him.
Aside from all that, the story didn't really have a point to make, I didn't get any sense of advancement from the film. From the beginning to the end it really didn't matter what happened because I couldn't bring myself to care about what happened to Renner.
Of course there were far too many technical issues to get overcome like where Renner kept getting all that hardware throughout the movie, but then it's magic I suppose. At least Bourne had a lockbox somewhere. Also, they showed Damon's face as much as possible to try to lend credence to the film with a sporadic appearance from other actors who were in the Bourne series, but it made the movie more cheesy than interesting.
There's a trend now where terrible movies are made with great actors "in" them, but in reality the actor just makes a cameo or two and the rest of the movie is horrible nobody actors. It's just the last dying breaths of Hollywood before Netflix and HBO take over.