This is not the Bourne sequel you were looking for.

| Sep 24, 2012

(Renner) has the required intensity and physicality to make his character-a highly-trained, genetically enhanced undercover agent-completely believable.

Full Review | Aug 24, 2012

The Bourne Legacy exists only as a failed attempt to squeeze more juice out of a once-reputable franchise, which is hardly a legacy worth leaving.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5 | Aug 22, 2012

The Bourne Legacy is quieter, slower, more sobering. The conspiracy is bigger and darker than we thought.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2012

There's enough there, in all likelihood, to make audiences hope for more, but it's not as finished or complete a work as it should have been.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2012

Jeremy Renner takes over the franchise and lends his character a menacing charm.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2012

Where The Bourne Ultimatum was a lesson in how to construct a jargon-heavy, location-hopping, it-goes-all-the-way-up-to-the-top spy thriller, The Bourne Legacy is a lesson in how not to.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2012

Shares crucial DNA with the earlier films but is drawn from the shallower end of the gene pool.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2012

Gilroy hasn't locked down every last task and stumbles at the end, but he keeps an awful lot spinning for an awfully long time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2012

Everything Gilroy and crew concoct only serves to mock the excellence and passion with which Greengrass delivered his films.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 13, 2012

Aaron Cross immediately registers as a more vulnerable and sympathetic protagonist than his predecessor.

| Aug 11, 2012

Perhaps the most interesting question arising from The Bourne Legacy is just how long the filmmakers hope to trade on the Bourne name without any, you know, Bourne.

| Aug 10, 2012

Gilroy (who co-wrote the film with his brother Dan) doesn't skimp on high-octane action, from Renner's introductory scenes of survival in a snowy wilderness, to his violent first meeting with Weisz, through a slam-bang chase climax.

Full Review | Aug 10, 2012

Might pass muster as a serviceable, if infuriatingly coy, Bourne spin-off if the lead were not so woefully miscast.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 10, 2012

The whole thing remains peculiarly abstract - there's nothing to invest in here, no pre-existing couple under threat, no child in peril, no one to root for. No lighter moments either.

| Aug 10, 2012

Renner and Weisz work well together as two hunted souls who initially need each other for utilitarian reasons.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 10, 2012

Gilroy's a fine writer - he also penned Michael Clayton - but without the discipline of an action veteran like Greengrass to rein him in, he indulges his weakness to over-explain things.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 10, 2012

This franchise is going to have to come up with something pretty special if it hopes to limp past this miserable entry.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 10, 2012

The movie's last hour or so squanders these rich narrative possibilities in an incoherently plotted, generically action-packed anticlimax.

| Aug 10, 2012

Gilroy keeps the Bourne mythology firmly intact while moving it forward, and leaves the door open for just about anything in the future.

| Original Score: B | Aug 10, 2012