The Bourne Legacy (Blu-ray) [2012] [Region Free]

This I'm sure will be a awesome movie when I find time to watch it.

Awesome movie! This Bourne sequel is one of the best. Jeremy Renner is very believable as an operative and the plot is great!

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This movie was a mostly failed attempt to expand the Bourne universe beyond Matt Damon's character when Damon did not want to return for another movie. Of course, Damon eventually came back to the character and the spin-off was pretty much relegated to the dust bin of history.The Bourne Legacy takes place at the same time as the previous film, The Bourne Ultimatum. Jeremey Renner stars as Aaron Cross who is a member of a black ops program called Operation Outcome whose subjects are genetically enhanced. Cross is stationed in a remote outpost in Alaska, and after the Treadstone operation is burned by Bourne, the government starts eliminating all traces of it and Operation Outcome, which means trying to take Cross out. Of course, that does not go to plan and what follows from there is pretty similar to the prior installments of the franchise.Opinions on the quality of the movie seem to vary a lot. I think it was pretty good, but not great. It kept faithful to the original movies, yet was not totally derivative. That said, the chases and the whole feel of the government trying to track down a rogue agent were very much the same as the prior movies. It did have a great cast including Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, and Oscar Isaac, and had clips of Damon, Albert Finney, and Joan Allen.The movie looks and sounds very good in the HD format and there are a lot of extras. Those include a commentary track on the movies by the directors and members of the production crew. Then there are deleted scenes and several featurettes that run from just under two minutes to almost eight minutes. All in all, about an hour's worth of extras (give or take) separate from the commentary track.Overall, the movie was a good attempt at expanding the Bourne Universe. I think Renner, Weisz, and Norton did a good job as the leads and would have liked to have seen additional movies with their involvement, even with Cross and Bourne teaming up. Chances are, that is not going to come to pass and this is going to be a one-off movie, even if Damon decides to do another movie after "Jason Bourne" which is becoming more unlikely as time goes by.

I saw The Bourne Identity in the theater, along with every other film made in the series. You might be inclined to think at this point the franchise has run out of gas, as the novels have been exhausted and old events are being retread. At first I thought that too. But I gave this film a chance and I'm very glad I did.There IS NO PLOTIf you've seen the other Bourne films you pretty much already know everything (or hopefully guessed it by now). Then again, perhaps like me you went through the evolution of "Treadstone? Black Brier? Why DID that guy jump out the window? What's the point of all this? Ahh...never mind. I'm going sit back and enjoy the chases and action." In any case, you needn't worry about the plot, because there isn't one.You demand to know the excuse for a plot? Okay. The cancelled super-agent programs are resulting in "clean-up" where loose ends are tied up and shot through the head. Our two likable protagonists played by the always charming Jeremy Renner and always gorgeous Rachel Weisz are hunted down by the always cool Edward Norton and his intelligence network. There. That's it.Characters?It is really nice to see Jeremy Renner get a starring role, even if the studio execs thought it was a throw-away. He was enormously likable in Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol (giving the impression of super-spy meets Brendan Fraser in one handsome friendly package), and I was ready for him to play hero. Here his character (like Matt Damon's Bourne) says almost nothing about his past, yet we come to feel we know him. He's a very friendly guy. Perhaps too friendly for his profession. He's also very, very skilled. And in snippets we come to understand where he came from, and it lends sympathy to his predicament.The scientist played by Rachel Weisz could have been a cookie-cutter damsel and instead was played as a real human being thrust into an impossible situation with a super-spy and an army of trained killers after her. NIcely done. Edward Norton has a smaller part in this film, but nonetheless proves about to anchor things with cold intelligence previously portrayed by much older actors.EntertainmentBut let's be honest. The REAL star of this film is the camerawork, music, and cinematography. The roller-coaster ride that ensues once the kill-order goes through. And yes, THAT star is in fine form.Bourne Identity reinvented the action film, but this film is a more enjoyable movie (to me anyway). There's some actual cinematography instead of shaky-cam. There's some beautiful good-old-fashioned-hollywood-film-making. And the film is better for it. The inevitable chase scene might not blow your mind like the one from Bourne Identity, and you're not going to see any agent vs. agent hand-to-hand insanity, but overall this film is less of a downer, and more of a film you can sit down, watch and just enjoy.Oh don't get me wrong, there's a brutual execution of scientists who have outlived their usefulness, and plenty of other fights to be seen, there just isn't the same level of stabbed-through-the-hand-with-a-pen and strangled-to-death grittiness that pervades the other Bourne films. If you LIKED those scenes you may find this one tame by comparison. Personally I find it less stressful and more enjoyable. Mileage may vary.My FavAs I get older, I find myself enjoying films that are more light-hearted and just plain old fun to watch, as opposed to films that are great, but not very enjoyable. This film is on my shelf next to Men In Black 3, Mission Impossible 4, Tron Legacy, John Carter, and Prince of Persia. Yeah, to me at least, it's THAT kind of movie. Well worth owning.

Just watched it for the 4th time. Loved it as much as the first.

You may come to think that this is the best Jason Bourne film, but he barely appears in it. Jeremy is great...great. I've already watched it multiple times and it thrills each time that I do.