Decent movie despite thin plot, script

Rating: 6/10 (11 December 2012)

This time around the main character is agent Aaron Cross (Renner), part of a separate Treadstone program. The story involves drug-enhanced secret agents and Cross trying to get more of them, as he and Dr. Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz) outrun the CIA.
The story starts out interesting enough but quickly loses focus to the point of being meaningless, as the two leads run from place to place. There are some thrilling action sequences though and the Renner and Weisz deserve praise for their solid performances despite an almost non- existent story and script. Edward Norton's part was a disappointment because he didn't really nothing other than bark orders and spout patriotic clichés.
The movie is never really quite sure where it's going. A bunch of chases and then suddenly it's over, very abruptly and with no closure at all.
Norton, Weisz, and Renner are all great actors and this could have been a great movie had it had a more purposeful storyline and fleshed-out characters. As it stands it's a decent movie but nothing memorable and certainly won't stand the test of like the original trilogy.