Groundbreaking Incompetence in Movie History
Have you ever seen a bad movie and wonder to yourself, 'how the hell
could they have made something so horrendous'? I constantly asked myself
this question throughout my viewing of The Bourne Legacy. Just what the
hell was going on through the production of this movie. What made
things worse is that this film had great marketing and was coming off of
a blockbuster franchise. You could not be so fortunate.
Tony
Gilroy, even though he worked on the previous three Bourne movies,
should not have helmed this movie. Stop giving action flick productions
over to non-action directors. I hated all three of Michael Bay's
Transformers, but this knows and understand how to direct action
sequences and keeping pace very well. Michael Clayton and Duplicity are
the two directing credits from Gilroy. The Bourne Legacy is just a
plague of supreme boredom. In addition, this film's consistence of
pointless, dragging scenes makes things worse. There's really only one
decent action scene, which is shot to close, Marc Forster style. The
climax is just a big 'f*ck you'.
Jeremy Renner stars as the new
protagonist, Aaron Cross, foreshadowing just how bad Alex Cross will
be. Screw you Tyler Perry. The movie opens similar to the first Bourne
movie's opening with Jason Bourne floating, which is just the beginning
of the film's obsession with incompetently connecting the first three
films into this retarded storyline. The Saw franchise did a better job
with intertwining it's storylines in it's franchise. They brought back
every living character from the previous films just so they can say some
two bit lines, walk from one area to the next or to just die off. For
me this act kind of diminishes the value of the Jason Bourne trilogy a
little. Why destroy these characters that should have nothing to do with
this installment. Hey, Tony, your not Paul Greengrass pal.
Jeremy Renner was spectacular as Cross. Nothing against Bourne, but
Jason never really felt human to me. He's just a stoic character thrown
into a cool action movie, which is nothing against Damon, who's also
great. Cross has a lot more personality. I guess it has more to do with
the writing of the characters. Rachel Weiss should go back to the Mummy
franchise. She's just a pretty face to me with no potential. Her
character is even worse. So whiny. Rose Byrne should have gotten this
role. I barely paid any attention to Norton, except for those huge sacks
of bags under his eyes. Seriously dude, I believe they have Olay for
that.
Amazingly, I didn't hate this movie. I really have no love
it or hate it feeling at all. It's just dull as hell. There's a scene
where Renner is just rock climbing in the snowy mountains and it means
nothing!! Why the mountains? Why!? I must know this. In closing, this
franchise, to quote Jericho, will never EVERRRRRRR be on the level of
Bond. Many have tried and all have failed. Bond's cool and he doesn't
need drugs or some super duper special training to be cool. And to the
people who have seen this movie, so was this guy, Cross, a Universal
Soldier or what.
