A Good Story Wasted by Awful Screenplay and Direction

Rating: 3/10 (24 March 2013)

A reporter of The Guardian that is writing articles about the Operations Treadstone and Blackbriar is murdered and the American Senate Committee investigates the participation of the CIA directors and responsible for the programs. CIA Director Ezra Kramer (Scott Glenn) summons the retired USAF Colonel Eric Byer (Edward Norton) to clean the mess and he discovers a Youtube video with the responsible for the Treadstone and Outcome Operations together in a public event. Eric Byer decides to shutdown the Outcome Operation, a defense program that uses green and blue pills to enhance the physical and mental capabilities of the agents since the Senate investigation would certainly discover the connection between the operations.
Byer orders to kill the Outcome agents, including Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) that is training in Alaska, using a drone to track a sensor implanted in Aaron's leg, but he puts the device in a wolf that is destroyed. Byer believes that Cross is dead and he uses Dr. Donald Foite (Zeljko Ivanek) to kill his colleagues in the research center; however Dr. Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz) flees from the attempt and survives. When Dr. Shearing is attacked by CIA killers in her house, Aaron Cross saves her expecting to get the pills. Soon Cross learns that he does not need the green pills anymore, only the blue ones, and he travels with Dr. Shearing to the Philippines, where the blue pills are manufactured. When Byer finds that they are in the Philippines, he sends an assassin to hunt them down.
"The Bourne Legacy" is a deceptive movie with a good story wasted by awful screenplay and direction. It is difficult to understand the plot and only in the middle of the movie that the story becomes clearer. Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz have good performances but are incapable to save this messy movie. My vote is three.
Title (Brazil): "O Legado Bourne" ("The Bourne Legacy")