Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The Bourne Legacy 2012


An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.

Director: Tony Gilroy
Writers: Tony Gilroy (screenplay), Dan Gilroy (screenplay).

Cast: 
  • Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross/Kenneth James Kitsom/Dr. Karl Brundage/Outcome 5
  • Rachel Weisz as Dr. Marta Shearing
  • Edward Norton as Eric Byer
  • Joan Allen as Deputy Director Pamela Landy
  • David Strathairn as Noah Vosen, the former director of Operation Blackbriar
  • Albert Finney (cameo) as Dr. Albert Hirsch, the doctor responsible for the creation of Treadstone
  • Louis Ozawa Changchien as LARX-03, a genetically modified super soldier who has been brainwashed into a remorseless killer
  • Scott Glenn as Ezra Kramer, director of the Central Intelligence Agency
  • Oscar Isaac as Outcome 3, an agent who was supposedly side-lined for falling in love
  • Donna Murphy as Dita
  • Stacy Keach as Mark Turso
  • Ċ½eljko Ivanek as Dr. Donald Foite
  • Corey Stoll as Vendel
  • David Asmar as Evan Pines
  • John Arcilla as Joseph, a security guard
  • Lou Veloso as The Fisherman
  • Elizabeth Marvel as Dr. Connie Dowd
  • Corey Johnson as Ray Wills
Plot:
Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) is a member of Operation Outcome, a Department of Defense black ops program, which enhances the physical and mental abilities of field operatives through pills referred to as "chems". Cross is deployed to Alaska for a training assignment, where he must survive certain activities (such as diving into freezing water to locate an object) and traverse rugged terrain to arrive at a remote cabin. The cabin is operated by an exiled Outcome operative, Number Three (Oscar Isaac), who, upon arrival, informs Cross that he broke the previous mission record by two days.
Meanwhile, Operation Blackbriar and the Treadstone Project have been publicly exposed (through the actions of Jason Bourne as seen in The Bourne Ultimatum), leading the FBI and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to investigate CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy (Joan Allen), Blackbriar supervisor Noah Vosen (David Strathairn), Treadstone clinical researcher Dr. Albert Hirsch (Albert Finney) and CIA Director Ezra Kramer (Scott Glenn). Kramer requests help from Eric Byer (Edward Norton), a retired Air Force colonel responsible for overseeing the CIA's clandestine operations.
Byer discovers potentially damaging video on the Internet in which the lead researchers for Treadstone and Outcome appear together at professional functions in public. To prevent the Treadstone investigation from finding and revealing Outcome's top-secret scientific advances, Byer decides to "burn the program to the ground." He sees this sacrifice as acceptable because the government has already separately initiated next-generation "beta programs" like "LARX": "Treadstone without the inconsistency. Outcome without the emotions."
The following morning, the police surround the flophouse while Shearing is away buying medicine. She screams out a warning. Cross escapes, then returns the favor by rescuing Shearing from the police who have begun chasing her. They steal a motorcycle and are pursued by both the police and LARX-03. After a lengthy chase through the streets and marketplaces of Manila, the police lose them and LARX-03 fatally crashes into a warehouse pillar. Shearing and Cross slide off their damaged motorcycle, and are rescued by a Filipino boatman. They pay him a gold watch (which Cross stole earlier from the chem factory's supervisor), to take them out of the country. The movie ends as the they sail for Vietnam, content to be together.

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