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Bourne to Be Bad
The Bourne Legacy fails to finish strong
THE BOURNE LEGACY: Directed by Tony Gilroy.
Written by Tony and Dan Gilroy, inspired by the
series by Robert Ludlum. Cinematography, Robert
Elswit. Editor, John Gilroy. Music, James Newton
Howard. Starring Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz and
Edward Norton. Universal Pictures, 2012. PG-13. 135
minutes. 00111
T
ony Gilroy directed Michael Clay-
ton. Think about that, while you
watch The Bourne Legacy, and
ponder how it is that the writer-director of
such a taut, effective fi lm created some-
thing as skittish and incomplete as Bourne,
which is about 45 percent prologue, and
almost entirely unsatisfying.
Did we need more Bourne movies?
Granted, there was something particularly
appealing about the previous trilogy,
some spark of chemistry between director
Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon, who’s
always struck me as an unlikely action
hero. Everything he did seemed slightly
improbable but entirely possible, and
Greengrass set the bar for the rooftop
chase sequence and remembered that a
fi ght scene is nothing if you can’t see
what’s going on. Little things, maybe, but
they elevated the Bourne fi lms, made them
kinetic and spry. Brilliant? No. But let’s be
honest about what we’re looking for here.
Gilroy’s Bourne has no sense of space
or connection, and takes for granted that
we remember far too many details from the
previous fi lms (which Gilroy co-wrote). It
begins in Alaska, where Aaron Cross (Jeremy
Renner) goes through some sort of training,
dodging wolves and leaping ravines. Renner
seemed the perfect actor with whom to
revamp the series; he’s not pretty, but he’s
attractive; he’s not bulked-up, but there’s
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a coiled, under-the-surface physicality to
his presence. So why does it seem like he’s
waiting for the movie’s star to show up?
While Cross mucks about in Alaska,
Edward Norton, as Eric Byer, delivers a
lot of terse, angry lines that are meant to
remind us about the projects that created
Bourne, Cross and, apparently, some other
super-smart, super-strong folks around
the globe who must now be eliminated.
(Information in the wrong hands, everyone
will be ruined, etc.) Byer and company fail
to kill Cross, who’s none too pleased about
their efforts. Meanwhile, project doctor
Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz) is wound
up in a tight ball of fear and raging fury;
she’s the only survivor of a lab-shooting
rampage. When the requisite government
goons in black cars and ugly suits descend
on her place, Cross shows up too.
This is a lot of plot just to get Cross
and Shearing together, but The Bourne
Legacy’s one stroke of relative genius was
pairing up Renner and Weisz and then not
requiring them to have immediate sexual
tension; that builds, slightly, as they
survive the destruction of her beautiful
home, a tense fl ight to Manila, and an
appropriate number of choppy, inelegant
chases. But when the smoldering fi nally
starts, the movie simply ends. It’s half
a movie at best — the half packed with
snippets of information, brief cameos from
previous Bourne characters, and an overly
busy setup with very little payoff. Before I
saw the fi lm, a friend claimed that not even
Jeremy Renner wrestling a wolf could save
it. Sadly, he was right.
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