"We are morally indefensible and absolutely necessary."

Rating: 7/10 (28 May 2019)

I didn't think Jeremy Renner portraying Aaron Cross would be a suitable replacement for Matt Damon's Jason Bourne, but he kind of grows on you after a while. Especially after the good guy/bad guy sides begin to assimilate, and we learn that shutting down Treadstone and Black Briar actually meant shutting down all the operatives that were in them. That's pretty harsh if you ask me, but I guess the espionage world goes by a pretty strict set of rules. So in this one, we find out that Aaron Cross had genetic alterations made to two of his chromosomes, with his 'green', physical side gaining a one and a half percent rise in his mitochondrial protein uptake, giving him increased cellular tempo and muscle efficiency, while his 'blue' side intelligence underwent increased neural regeneration and elasticity, with improved sensory function, pain suppression and genomic targeting. Even with all that, I couldn't figure out why, when Aaron and Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz) were trying to make their escape from the Manila lab, they didn't simply put on a pair of pink gown and hats to blend in with the rest of the panicking work force. It would have been so much easier. By that time I had forgotten all about Jason Bourne, and figured out what 'legacy' was supposed to indicate, even if we only got a single snapshot to remind us that he was once the principal character of the series.