PG-13 | 2h 15m | Action, Thriller, Drama | July 30, 2012 Rotten Tomatoes now has “The Bourne Legacy” (2012) at critics: 55, audience: 58. This is very surprising, considering this is a rip-roaring actioner with crackling tension throughout, very well made, and highly entertaining. Normally, a film like this would rate at least in the mid-80s with audiences. The critic’s take is predictable. More on the low audience Rotten Tomatoes score later.
Agent #5, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) and Dr. Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz) getting lost in a crowd to escape hitmen, in “The Bourne Legacy.” (Universal Pictures)
Bourne Movies
The wildly successful “Bourne” movies have certain common ingredients, starting with some form of identity crisis of the central character, a rogue CIA black ops agent (assassin) who’s “off the reservation” and usually has memory loss….