93 – The Bourne Legacy

How do you keep your franchise going when the lead actor has no interest in reprising the main character and you don't want to recast them? Well, you simply shift focus to another character who has never been shown or mentioned before and has similar abilities to your former main character but got them through science and magic rather than practice and training. Feeling sweaty yet? Join Leigh, Brendan, and Chris as we watch 2012's The Bourne Legacy, a tangent with big hopes and dreams that does all of the above and sadly much more. Perhaps if you watched any of the previous Matt Damon outings and wished that there had been less punching and more middle-aged white men yelling while looking at computers, you'll find yourself in this movie's heretofore undiscovered target audience. If not, well, at least we had a pretty good martini to drink while we tried to make sense of everything. Continue reading →