The Bourne Legacy Trailer – Treadstone With No Matt Damon?
The Bourne movies are not the Bourne movies without Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) and unless this movie can change my mind (which I doubt) then I am sticking by that statement. That being said, the trailer for ‘The Bourne Legacy‘ looks surprisingly good (although I don’t like to admit it).
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Jeremy Renner is taking over the reins as another Treadstone pet project playing his character Aaron Cross. The movie trailer does a good job steering the crowd away from Jason Bourne making statements like “Jason Bourne was just the tip of the iceberg” “He’s Treadstone without the inconsistency”, and “We have never seen evaluations like this”.
With the Bourne franchise the fighting scenes have always been famous and the same goes for this newest addition. Although with Aaron Cross at the wheel it seems like his fighting maneuvers are a little more forced, he doesn’t’ have the fluid-like movements that Jason Bourne brought to the table… it’s hard to explain.
There are a few familiar faces from the previous films Joan Allen‘s character Pam Landy the head of the CIA, Albert Finney playing his character Dr. Albert Hirsch who was in charge of taking Treadstone applicants and turning them into killing machines. If I’m not mistaken he killed himself in ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ which means either the suicide was faked for some reason (which would be lame) or maybe the newest film takes place during the first Bourne movies (or before… it’s unknown as of now).
There is one big shimmering light of hope for this movie that can be summed up in two words… Edward Norton. I am a huge fan of Edward Norton, he makes every movie just a little bit better (okay The Incredible Hulk was not the best movie ever but it was better then the previous one with Eric Bana). Hopefully Norton will add enough quality to the movie to make it worth-while but he’s not a miracle worker.
Check out the trailer for yourself and let me know what you guys think. While I certainly don’t think this movie will be as good as the previous films, I might check it out on DVD.
The Bourne Legacy release date scheduled for August 3rd, 2012.
[Source: IMDB]
