Unique Client Solutions reviews The Bourne Legacy.
After all the fuss surrounding the latest
Batman film it is easy to see why the latest film in the Bourne franchise
hasn’t had the build-up of its predecessors. The Sheffield and Nottingham based company offers
outsourcing solutions to the entertainment industry so films are their passion.
On Saturday some of the film buffs at Unique Client Solutions took it upon
themselves to head down to the cinema and see what the latest installment had
to offer. The first three films were firm favourites at the customer
acquisitions company, would the fourth live up to expectations?
The film is written to run concurrently
with The Bourne Ultimatum and look at
the fallout from the Treadstone programme, this time looking at one called Outcome.
Jeremy Renner plays Aaron Cross, one of six agents who are medicated to make
them ultra-efficient. Of course when the programme shuts down, like with
Treadstone, the agents must be eliminated.
The film misses Paul Greengrass who
directed the first three films. Tony Gilroy in the directors chair is left with
the difficult task of trying to piece together a sequel but without its star
actor and without a fantastic plot. The film still has the grit of its predecessors,
Renner is actually very good but along with Rachel Weisz and Ed Norton they’re
struggling to create something incredible out of a mediocre plotline. There
are tantalizing moments when snippets of newsreel suggest that Jason Bourne is
still out there and at Unique Client Solutions we wish he was.
Don’t get us wrong, this is still a
perfectly enjoyable film to watch but unlike the last two films, this feels like a sequel a la Scream 2, 3 and
4. They’re trying to re-create the same ideas of the previous films but
with a new group of people. So what is the verdict of the team at Unique Client Solutions? There is plenty to keep you interested but don’t go in with the
misconception that this is a continuation of a fantastic story, it isn’t. This
is a spin-off through and through. If they intend to do another we hope that
they put a little more effort into creating a truly great plotline that will do
the first three films justice. We give it 7/10.
