However, Jason Bourne doesn't advance the plot in any meaningful way, and it feels scattered in terms of plotting and direction.

Matt Damon still has a tremendous lock on the character of Jason Bourne, though, and Greengrass continues his natural flair for action. The first film in the franchise to reunite director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon, and the most recent in the series, 2016's Jason Bourne is a slight improvement but still feels like a more hollow entry than the original trilogy. While some spin-offs can bring fascinating or innovative and expansive new elements, The Bourne Legacy instead mostly reminds viewers of how much more compelling the previous films were.

While it may have had its ambitions, The Bourne Legacy fails to resonate or bring anything exciting to the table. There are some enjoyable action sequences and set pieces, along with gorgeous exotic locales which are nice to witness, but none carry the scope or weight of previous Bourne movies. Legacy attempts to tie itself back to the earlier films but winds up feeling convoluted, and its editing and pacing lacks the finesse that Paul Greengrass or Doug Liman brought to previous installments. While the fourth Bourne does an admirable job of fleshing out the universe, and Jeremy Renner gives a committed performance, it's ultimately an underdeveloped and largely uneventful experience. An outlier in the franchise, as it's the only film to not feature Matt Damon, The Bourne Legacy already had that working against it.

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