The Bourne Legacy Overview"The Bourne Legacy" is a 2012 American action-thriller movie directed by Tony Gilroy as a continuity of the Bourne series. Jeremy Renner stars as Aaron Cross, a representative of Operation Outcome, the successor to Operation Treadstone, the secret program that produced Jason Bourne.
PlotThe film begins as the actions of Jason Bourne in the previous film effect the Outcome Program. CIA agent Eric Byer (Edward Norton) feared direct exposure after Jason Bourne went public and chose to end Outcome. Along with Cross, six other representatives were eliminated utilizing drone attacks. At the same time, the other part of the program - researchers working on agents' special medication were also eliminated, except for Dr. Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz), the biochemist who survived the massacre.
Cross, who had been left in the wild for survival training, was supposed to be killed in a drone attack, however he outsmarts the management and makes it through. Cross, who became dependent on special medication - green tablets for physical enhancement and blue ones for intellectual, discovers his capabilities deteriorating. He approaches Dr. Shearing, the unwary survivor of the massacre, for assistance in sourcing these medications.
Dispute and ResolutionA chase series takes place as Cross and Shearing narrowly escape a group sent to eliminate them. Flashbacks expose that Cross volunteered for the program to escape a life of punishment in prison and gain intellectual enhancement. And to fix his dependence on the once-a-day green tablet, Cross forces Shearing to infect him with a genetically engineered infection that makes the impacts of the medications irreversible.
With Byer still on their tail, Cross and Shearing fly to Manila, where the drugs are produced. Again involved in unsafe pursuits, Cross and Sheering make a desperate effort to leave Byer's chase by initiating a bike chase across Manila.
In a climactic action sequence, Cross dispatches the last assassin, LARX-03, and he and Shearing handle to escape from Byer's grasp once again. The movie ends on an uncertain note as Cross and Shearing cruise away to an unidentified location while Byer is left dealing with the fallout of his unsuccessful operation.
Conclusion"The Bourne Legacy" expanded the Bourne universe, diving into another secret federal government program, its representatives, and the consequences of Bourne's actions. While critics labelled the movie as a good action-thriller on the surface, they likewise flagged it for its complex plot and tenuous connection to the initial trilogy. Jeremy Renner's character Aaron Cross provided a brand-new lead character to the series, known for his physical and psychological prowess, thanks to the bioengineering program Outcome. The film brilliantly showcased the tense chase sequences and the lone-warrior-against-the-organization theme that the Bourne series is well-known for.
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