The first half of The Bourne Legacy is uncomfortably dull, with three fundamental difficulties: the exposition-filled dialogue is uninteresting; the characters do very little; and the attempt at the Bourne style does not sit well with the scenarios on offer. Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz are two fine actors, and once circumstances throw them together, the lead characters find a sense of purpose and the actors visibly play off each other very well. The action in the second half of the film works effectively, especially the final chase through Manila, if not quite matching up to the previous films in the franchise, James Newton Howard provides a strong and interesting music score, and the sideways linking to the Matt Damon films is done nicely throughout. The film would have benefited from less tortuous setting up at the start, as once it gets going The Bourne Legacy is a solid action thriller.
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