the worst out of all the Bourne series

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2013)

The Bourne series ended with the last instalment, and now comes a 135 minute death rattle called "The Bourne Legacy." It's a peculiar movie, both over-plotted and under-plotted, encumbered by layers of detail and yet with no details invested in or developed. And it all but squanders Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz, although with actors less appealing, "The Bourne Legacy" would be even worse.
The film is almost opaque in its storytelling. As the film starts, Renner is in a cold, woodland area, injecting himself with blood, taking swims in freezing water and climbing mountains. We don't know why he's there, and we never quite find out. Meanwhile, Jason Bourne is in New York, apparently creating a stir, although we never see him. And there's a journalist in London who is about to expose Operation Treadstone, or perhaps Blackbriar, and no one ever explains what these are, or what the difference is between them.
The assumption is that the audience has just seen the entire Bourne trilogy this week and has committed each detail to memory.