Originally Posted By: ronnierocketAGO
Well TIS, I saw BOURNE LEGACY and wow, what a disapointment. I'm giving it a thumbs down.

Really really really takes it's sweet time to get going, those people who called TDKR "boring" should go this and be refamiliarized with that word. By the time the movie starts going, it was too little, too late for me and I couldn't care about these people or get myself involved in the narrative.

I think what's hilarious is the whole plot device (or the macguffin excuse to fuel these action narratives) involves our hero the super agent lab rat needing his little blue pills (no not Viagra) or else he'll regress intellectually. Think of this as the action movie remake of CHARLY.

That might explain why the audience at my screening were less lively than a Morgue. Seriously I can't believe a Bourne movie can be simply dismissed as "boring."

Still I suppose the good things that could've been found in a good one of these pictures. I liked how Jeremy Renner outsmarts that Predator drone trying to assassinate him, his confrontation with that wolf (2nd movie this year after THE GREY where the hero fights wild doggie 1-on-1). Even that trap he pulls on that henchman using the fire extinguisher was brilliant.

Also this might come off as petty, but...the villains' motivations don't make much sense. Yes the earlier Bourne movies more or less were about evil CIA people trying to assassinate somebody, but it's only 1 or 2 people at most for containment. It makes sense, at least for a movie.

But Edward Norton kills dozens of people, including supposed top-assets in North Korea and Iran, and that's where my willingness to suspend disbelief has been wrecked. The problem with any conspiracy in general is that how do you keep such shit quiet? 1 or 2 people die, hey shit happens. 20-30 die within your division and affiliated agencies, well gee that shit doesn't happen everyday.



Thanks for the review RR. smile Comments I have read included many saying that it was too far into the movie before any action started. The previews they've shown on tv show a jump from a building into a the window of another building. Great stunt work but was a scene in "Bourne Ultimatum." The CIA guy (the one that looks like Robert Kardashian - OJ's lawyer) Asking "Who is that guy", also is a familiar line from the last Bourne.

I likely will see it when it comes to HBO or tv but I won't have too high expectations. ohwell I can understand Damon not wanting to make another (sequels can get so worn out and actors type-cast to one role, tho don't know if that would be the case with Damon)BUT all the Bourne movies have really kept me on the edge of my seat and have been so entertaining. I'd be a sucker for another Bourne (with Damon anyway). smile

TIS


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