The Bourne Legacy Reviews
We Got This Covered
The Bourne Legacy is the strangest sequel to come out of the Hollywood studio system in a long, long time. It's a product of shallow studio greed and staggering creative ineptitude.
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| Original Score: 3.5/10
NECN
It's not Renner's fault the script is a heap of dung.
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| Original Score: D-
Moviedex
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.
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| Original Score: 2.5
CraveOnline
If this is the legacy of the Bourne franchise, we're better off just forgetting all about it.
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| Original Score: 2/10
Daily Telegraph
If this is Bourne's legacy, he should amend his will.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Examiner.com
There are a handful of key action sequences that are wrapped up in this really boring movie. It's like one of the lamest and least memorable pigs in a blanket you've ever experienced.
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| Original Score: 5/10
2UE That Movie Show
The Bourne Legacy disgraces the family name
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| Original Score: 2/5
Irish Times
Might pass muster as a serviceable, if infuriatingly coy, Bourne spin-off if the lead were not so woefully miscast.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Why oh why would you spoil the brilliance of a perfect film trilogy with a Bourne inferior? The Bourne Legacy is a fourth big screen adventure for the super spy but sadly one without a plot, a point and most incredibly Jason Bourne.
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| Original Score: 3/10
Hollywood.com
'Legacy' has to dig deeper to find new ground to cover, introducing elements of sci-fi into the equation. The result is surprisingly limp and even more incomprehensible.
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| Original Score: 2/5
American Profile
After one of the best chase sequences of any movie this year, it literally slams into an ending that doesn't feel very much like an ending at all, leaving viewers adrift in a sea of unanswered spy questions.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Boston Phoenix
Renner projects too much complexity to be an action hero, and he and Weisz have no chemistry ...
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The Ooh Tray
Lacks the tight plotting that characterised the first three movies.
Akron Beacon Journal
Disappointing recycling of bits from older "Bourne" movies with an unnecessarily complicated, slow-to-get-going and even by Bourne standards unbelievable plot.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Bourne Legacy may wind up being remembered as the New Coke of the Bourne franchise. It's really not all that much different, but it's likely to leave the public clamoring for Bourne Classic.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
What Culture
Rachel Weisz is the best thing in this overlong slog through Matt Damon's table scraps.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Flicks.co.nz
All could be forgiven if the action delivered, but it doesn't.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ComingSoon.net
As mindless entertainment goes, Legacy is better than most with good dialogue and excellent character work from Renner. But it's incomplete and ultimately unable to carve out an identity of its own.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Quickflix
If Identity, Supremacy, and Ultimatum were the cheeky entrée, mouth-watering main, and delectable dessert, respectively, watching this fourquel feels like finally receiving the bill.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Essentially one big long chase scene that never wants to stop, and with good reason. Because whenever it does, the audience might start thinking.
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| Original Score: 3/5
