Running parallel in time to The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Legacy stars Jeremy Renner as
black ops operative Aaron Cross. After completing a gruelling hike across the
Alaskan wilderness, Cross arrives at an isolated cabin where he meets a fellow
operative (Oscar Isaac). Due to events elsewhere, linked to the plot of the
first film in the series, the people running the secret Operation Outcome of
which Cross is a member decide to shut it down by killing all staff involved. A
drone attacks Cross but he manages to escape and tracks down scientist Dr.
Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz) who he hopes can lead him to stocks of the pills
he needs to remain a superhuman.
With a plot that I didn’t fully understand and some decent
action set pieces, The Bourne Legacy is
a film that is not without some merit but overall I could probably have lived
without seeing.
