And lo, we come full circle. So, these are the events that are supposed to be happening concurrently with Bourne Legacy. It kind of makes sense if you can make it through even more pervasive shakycam.A reporter (the criminally underused Paddy Considine) is overheard using a classified government cover term, "Blackbrier", by the CIA's audio version of the Machine from Person of Interest. A ruthless branch cheif (David Strathairn) decides to have the reporter followed to discover his source. Unfortunately for the CIA, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is also interested in knowing that name. Having literally just evaded capture in Moscow (the movie picks up directly after its predecessor), Bourne hops a flight for London and tracks the reporter down. A cat-and-mouse game with the CIA agents following him ensues, and is easily the best part of the film. After the reporter is killed by an assassin (Edgar Ramirez, also underused), Bourne tracks down the source by himself to Madrid. There he runs into Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) from the first two films. Despite Bourne having threatened her life pretty much continually for the past three years, Nicky decides to throw her career away and help him follow the source to Tangier, Morrocco. There, they run into another assassin (Joey Ansah) and play another game of chase. Their fight scene should have been the highlight of the movie but it's so spastically filmed, it's nigh unwatchable. Having accomplished nothing, Bourne decides to take on the CIA in New York City in an effort to find the people who spent millions of dollars turning him into an elite survival machine, the ungrateful bastard.
Clearly, I felt this was the weakest installment in the franchise (until I saw the fourth one). If you are a fan of selective memory, try and pretend there was only the original and sequel. You'll be much happier.
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