The Bourne Legacy Reviews
Concrete Playground
Legacy intact! Bourne Legacy ensures we've not seen the end of the franchise just yet.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Movie Talk
Renner's Cross isn't as compelling a protagonist as Damon's troubled Bourne, but when it comes to bruising combat he certainly delivers.
eFilmCritic.com
Unless America is really that stuck on Matt Damon in the Bourne franchise, I see no reason that Renner's work here shouldn't make him a star.
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| Original Score: 3/5
TheShiznit.co.uk
It couldn't ever hope to match the Paul Greengrass/Matt Damon movies for sheer punch and propulsion, but it's as close to replicating them as you could expect, and marks another excellent entry into the Bourneography.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
Nicely overlaps the previous films while carving a name of its own
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| Original Score: B
ScreenRant
'The Bourne Legacy' is by no means a bad film. Unfortunately, it just has trouble living up to the real world Jason Bourne 'legacy.'
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| Original Score: 3/5
Shotgun Critic
There's a lot to like about The Bourne Legacy, but it's hard not to feel a little worried that the rich complexity of Ludlum's past work might be lost in the transition-and that's a legacy that really needs to be upheld.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Movie Chambers
"The Bourne Legacy" may not be the thriller the first three films managed to be. But, it's well written and very entertaining. Renner has become one of my favorite action stars.
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| Original Score: B+
FoxNews.com
Though the weakest of the series, "The Bourne Legacy" is not a throw-away action film. It's one of the best thrillers of the year and a sure bet on the future success of the "Bourne" franchise.
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| Original Score: 6/10
The National
If you can survive the first hour's complexities - you'll need to focus hard on the narrative to keep up - a pay-off, of sorts, awaits.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Salt Lake Tribune
Renner and Weisz make an entertaining action-movie odd couple, the terse man of action and the chatty scientist who learns fast how to react when the shooting starts.
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| Original Score: 3/4
indieWIRE
(Renner) has the required intensity and physicality to make his character-a highly-trained, genetically enhanced undercover agent-completely believable.
Shadows on the Wall
It's watchable, but doesn't have enough sense of character or purpose to make us care about anything that happens
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| Original Score: 3/5
jackiekcooper.com
Jeremy Renner steps into this reboot of the "Bourne" franchise and the series doesn't miss a beat.
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| Original Score: 7/10
ColeSmithey.com
"The Bourne Legacy" is a better than competent spy thriller that pays off on its promise to push up the spectator's blood pressure.
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| Original Score: B-
Screen International
An intelligent, fantastic piece of well constructed pop entertainment that has a certain air of erudite emotional remove.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Mercury
It falters a little bit and it's really just an effort to keep a lucrative franchise alive without its iconic star, but it still seems to have plenty of life left in it.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Standard
It's as good a story as you can hope when you're trying to keep a franchise afloat without the main character, but it still feels a little underdone.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ABC Radio Brisbane
Jeremy Renner can't quite match the charm of Matt Damon in the leading role but it's hard to fault his passionate, energetic performance.
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| Original Score: B+
3AW
The film is too well-made and too well-paced to reek of cynicism...But rather than leaving you yearning for yet more Bourne, this exhausting fourth installment is more likely to have you citing one of the clearly stated themes in the film: "no more".
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| Original Score: 3/5
