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by Stewball
Sat May 21, 2016 4:55 am
Forum: Full Reviews
Topic: The Bourne Legacy (2012)
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Re: The Bourne Legacy (2012)

djross wrote:The Bourne Identity. Dir.: Doug Liman. Score: 30 (tier 2).
    Ah, sweet amnesia, can one ever tire of your charms? Run-of-the-mill, rather dreary spy movie that, contrary to what is sometimes claimed, is absurd, silly and utterly unrealistic. Very little to keep the viewer interested. Pedestrian direction. That a movie contains mediocre action scenes does not in and of itself imply that it must therefore count as "intelligent." The best defence of this franchise is probably tieman64's on IMDb, added on March 22, 2013.

The Bourne Supremacy. Dir.: Paul Greengrass. Score: 35 (tier 2).
    The intended kineticism is undermined rather than enhanced by editing overkill, and the story is nonsensical and uninvolving.

The Bourne Ultimatum. Dir.: Paul Greengrass. Score: 35 (tier 2).
    Fans of shaky camerawork and fraction-of-a-second editing will delight in this tale, which would be convincingly realistic if it weren't for the fact that every element is utterly absurd. Mildly tense for a while, but then it dawns on the viewer that the story is about very little, if anything. This was the first entry in the series that I saw.

The Bourne Legacy. Dir.: Tony Gilroy. Score: 45 (tier 4).
    This film has less frenetic editing than the prior entries in this series, is thematically a little more interesting (the very notion of the "film franchise" being a textbook example of behavioural control through "neural design"), and makes no mention whatsoever of amnesia. For these reasons, this is the least irritating of the four films made thus far. The failure by critics and audiences to recognise this is further evidence of the pressing need for mass distribution of the blue pills.


While I bump them all up about 40 points, I agree with their relative rankings. Legacy is definitely my favorite. I liked Renner & Weisz better too, and I think so does Damon--which is probably why they didn't even give it a second thought to blacklist him from any involvement they had in the franchise. Green and Damon are pricks, but of course I'm still going to see it. If I wrote all the movies with egomaniacs off my watch list, I'd only have about 33% left and probably not even that.