Am I just getting old, so I am more easily amused? Not so much a review as a rant.

Rating: 8/10 (25 May 2014)

OK, here's the thing--channel surfing and I came across a scene from this film--the one where the lab guy is shooting up a storm. So....it captured my attention and I decided I wanted to see this from the beginning--found on Demand. Voilà. Instant gratification without leaving my chair. What wonderful times we live in.
I start the movie and I'll be damned if I wasn't glued to the screen for the ENTIRE length of this film!!! I have seen the other Bourne films, and yes I am going to get booed here, but I found them confusing and boring, and fell asleep at all 3. To try and put a little perspective on this, I'm a girl who has never, ever watched a chick flick in my life and I've never seen an episode of Friends. I have a huge love of action, military, historical, and science fiction films. I've seen Gladiator at least 20 times, Alien and Aliens at least that, and the Godfather Trilogy? Well, don't even make me admit how many times I have seen that. I have watched movies incessantly since I was SEVEN years old. Cabaret was the first and why my Mother thought I should see this film I will never know--it actually created a fascination with Nazi history / atrocities, and a love for the Jewish faith.
So I SHOULD have liked the first 3 Bourne films, yes? But no. BUT I LOVED BOURNE LEGACY. After I watched it I came on IMDb because I wanted to see if there was a sequel yet. And WOW WHAT THE HECK, there were so so many awful reviews!!! Like, super bad, along with MAJOR praise for the first three!
Since I had fallen asleep at the other films, when I saw that this one was about chemically enhanced agents, I actually thought that somehow I had missed this part of the other 3 films, sleeping and all, so perhaps I should go back and watch again-- cuz I definitely enjoy science-fiction-ey and action mixed together!! The reviews quickly told me that duh, this part was new to the "series", and not much appreciated either.
I guess in the end, I must be getting old, and am easily amused. Because I really, really enjoyed the 2 actors, Renner and Weisz. He reminds me of Daniel Craig, who Weisz is married to, so that was cool. I also totally enjoyed the action scenes, thought they were fabulous, I was SUPER glued to my chair, and often I am fidgety and doing 2 things at once when watching a film. The beginning scenes in the Alaska wilderness? Great scenery, great action.
I want to be a super agent, damn it.
I guess the best I can expect is a sequel so I can once again live the life of a super agent vicariously!