1. The Bourne Legacy (2012)
The Bourne Legacy suffers, mostly, from having "not enough Matt Damon" and far too much Jeremy Renner, who I used to think was great, but now I think is a bit boring. Also this fourth entry in the gigantic action franchise wasn't directed by Paul Greengrass, and that's never good, is it? Still, I suppose you might enjoy this on a Sunday afternoon if seeing Ed Norton in a movie again is enough to keep you surprised. And although
Legacy is about as average an action movie as they come, its ending is infuriating enough to warrant that you'll remember it. After Renner's smart-mouthed super agent Aaron Cross has taken part in the movie's climatic action sequence, the movie doesn't really know what to do what itself, because... well, what is
The Bourne Legacy, anyway? What a strange movie to have ever existed in the first place, right? Why make a Bourne movie without Jason Bourne? Firm in the knowledge that it has nowhere to go, then,
Legacy just decides that it's better if it ends. Abruptly as hell, it simply ceases to continue. As a result, the movie just feels like it's kind of suspended in a state of nothingness. It's hard not to feel as though the act of watching it was waste of life hours. So talk about anti-climactic, sudden and vague,
Legacy skimps on the actually having a story as soon as it starts to get interesting. It's too long as it is, but because it just
stops, it still felt as though we needed more (a paradox if ever there was one). The fact that this movie doesn't really have a beginning or an ending makes it really hard to classify, because it's awkwardly shoe-horned into the series canon with about as much subtly as a celebrity roasting. But you would have at least thought the filmmakers might've used this installment as a chance to answer a few nagging questions or give us something to chew over. Like Matt Damon, who wisely passed on this one, they obviously just couldn't be bothered.
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