Better than the reviews

Rating: 7/10 (22 January 2013)

I usually don't write reviews, unless there is a significant disparity between the common audience perceptions. This is a movie where I find that phenomenon. Seems either people like it or hate it.
First I want to say I enjoyed the movie. It is not a waste of time. It is not a movie that you would get up and walk out on. I don't understand the whole "poor plot line and lackluster script" argument being given by some of the reviews. This movie is set up exactly the same way The Bourne Identity was. The script, dialog, cinematography and plot are parallel to The Bourne Identity's script, dialog, cinematography and plot. Both movies follow the same formula. The only reason why people say the plot sucks is because this story-line is an off shoot of tredstone and black briar programs. Jason bourne's character has very little impact. I think people assumed since the title of the movie is "The Bourne Legacy" that the story lines would be more in-tangled and interconnected. This movie has more to do with how the agency is handling the breakdown of their secret black ops programs rather than the ramifications of those implications - meaning it spends more time focusing on the whole agency rather than the personnel emotional turmoil of one or two characters - even though obviously this is an action movie and there is plenty of satisfying action.
I would love to see a sequel in which it had little to do with the actual black ops agents or assassins or whatever you want to call Jason Bourne and Aaron Cross, and more to do with Pamela Lundy, and Col. Eric Byer - the administrators - what happens to them? I mean what happens at the court hearings? It is like the CIA vs CIA. What does this mean for the intelligence community? - there is a whole slew of plots that could come out of it that I think would make for a really good psychological thriller. There is still a really big and entertaining plot to be explored here.
The only cretinism I can give this movie is that Aaron Cross's character doesn't come full circle like the Bourne Trilogy; but rightfully so. He doesn't have amnesia or some personnel vendetta against the agency, he just wants to survive the cutting block. In that respect I think it was a very good movie and I hope they keep making more of them.