I thought this was a sequel with a replacement lead. Needless to say I'm surprised to instead find it's a "co-quel", taking place alongside events of the Bourne Supremacy. This makes it somewhat disconcerting as they keep referring to things that happened in a film I saw two years ago, not in retrospect but in real-time, in a way that seems vital to the plot. Or, to put it a different way, the plot of that other film seems so much more important to this one. It's sort of like the Rosencrantz & Guildenstern of CIA action flicks.
It finally picks up most of the way through as the action intensifies and the film is finally allowed to chart its own course. And then it ends, all set up for a sequel.
Having dropped from a must-see theater experience to Netflix DVD, I suppose I can't downgrade the series any further. Overall though, I'm disappointed that they weren't able to set this up better, with more tie-ins to the previous film actually in the previous film.
The Bourne Legacy
2012, 135 minutes, directed by Tony Gilroy
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