Bourne Legacy

Another Bourne movie. Except this time, without Jason Bourne proper. Which is odd. It's a lot like having a James Bond movie where Q talks about Bond and does all the action. Personally, I find that it's a stretch to call it a Bourne movie at all. I guess Matt Damon's absence is just one part of why I find this movie less than satisfying. There's the matter of the action, with long drawn out chase scenes and unsatisfying fight scenes where you expect a climax only to be faced with an anticlimax. I find that highly unfortunate. That is not to talk about the twist in the storyline which I find cumbersome at best, requiring excessive explication to put forward where a simpler narrative would've sufficed. Overall I can say that I did not enjoy this movie. There's the obligatory occasional explosion and high octane chase scenes that are mediocre at best with their excessive reliance on shaky chase cameras and overall lack of a satisfying conclusion. Coupled with the absence of Bourne himself, I would just have to rate this movie a failure. It gets a 3/10 from me.