The Bourne Legacy (2012) 7/10

Starring : Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach
Director : Tony Gilroy
Running Time : 136 mins

As a result of Jason Bourne’s expose on Black Ops operations Treadstone and black Briar, those behind them decide to close down their other secret operations before they are compromised and make sure that all the agents involved ‘disappear’, but when they go after undercover agent Aaron Cross (Renner) they fail to kill him and he goes on the run, eventually tracking down Dr Marta Shearing (Weisz) when he realizes from a news report that she is the sole survivor of another calculated disposal operation.

I was so confused at the beginning of this movie because I thought Jeremy Renner was playing Jason Bourne. Things soon cleared up a bit when I realized he was Aaron Cross. The plot is what you’d expect from a Robert Ludlum movie, with lots of running around and trying not to get killed, and it’s a shame the opening half hour takes so long, but once we get to the shooting scene at the lab things soon kick in to high gear.

You’ll like this if you liked : Casino Royale