Archive for August 13th, 2012

Short Take: Made only to ride the real Bourne’s coattails

Director: Tony Gilroy

Screenwriters: Tony Gilroy, Dan Gilroy

Cast: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach, Albert Finney, David Strathairn

Length: 2h 15m

Synopsis: Picking up around the beginning of its predecessor The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Legacy tells the story of Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), an operative in the CIA’s Operation Outcome, a program that stemmed from Operation Treadstone of the prior Bourne films. When Jason Bourne begins to expose the CIA’s black-ops programs, the organization attempts to cover its tracks by killing off operatives in other programs, including Outcome. After narrowly escaping death at the hands of this effort, Cross begins a globe-trotting escape from the hands of his makers who now want him dead.

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