Ten Minutes of Action

Rating: 7/10 (6 February 2015)

The fourth film in the Bourne franchise takes place during Bourne Ultimatum, and mentions Jason's name a handful of times, but nothing else about this movie really has anything to do with the character. When the events depicted in Ultimatum are started, anyone involved with any of the projects like the one Jason Bourne was part of are killed off. Enter Aaron Cross, an agent from one such project, who uses experimental drugs to enhance his performance (a part of the project). He was lost for a while, and away when the killings of all the men and women were happening. Now he's running low on the drugs, and teams up with a doctor to get the enhancers permanently in him, while avoiding being killed. This action film has a whole lot of talking, and very little action. In a two hour and fifteen minute movie, there are about ten minutes of action. The cast is great, and the acting is pretty good, but the script is terrible. This cash-grab movie was not as good as it could have been, and should have never been done.
Soundtrack: 10- The score was action packed, even if the movie was not.
Script: 0- Nothing about this script made sense, or worked. It was a jumbling of events that just made sense.
Originality: 10- The ideas in this movie were there, and different, just not executed well.
Cinematography: 5- The shaky cam worked decently, but there were definitely strange camera angles and movements that just did not work.
Casting: 9- Almost everyone in this movie was casted well, and Jeremy Renner is a great actor in place of the void of Matt Damon.
Acting: 7- The actors could have been a lot better, but weren't the worst.
Overall: 6.8