The Bourne Legacy is the fourth movie in the Bourne franchise and is the first one without Jason Bourne as the protagonist. Aaron Cross is a member of a secret CIA program, which is intended to alter men to create the strongest soldiers possible. He's a member of Outcome, which has six agents and is decided to come to a close when Eric Byer realizes that he can't keep the program going. Eric is the creator of it, and due to the actions of Jason Bourne, which include revolting against the men that erased his memory and turned him into a living weapon, as well as causing people to fear that the truth will come out, resulting in the people responsible facing severe consequences, Eric doesn't want to face the consequences for his years of testing and research. This causes him to send out new pills to the agents, instead of the old ones that helped to keep them alive, and these kill them. However, they don't reach Aaron, resulting in Eric doing everything in his power to chase him down. Unfortunately for Eric, Aaron is extremely skilled and has gone on the run with one of the research scientists, Marta Shearing, which is mutually beneficial, since Marta is able to save Aaron from his altered DNA and Aaron is able to keep Marta safe from the people trying to kill them, and the unlikely duo might prove to be a much more difficult opponent than Byer could have ever anticipated. 
 

The Bourne Legacy proves to be an adventurous movie that provides an interesting take on the other programs existing in the Bourne franchise. The beginning of the movie does a brilliant job of jumpstarting the movie and introducing audiences to the connection between Aaron Cross and Jason Bourne without actually having Bourne on screen. The middle of the movie does a marvelous job of progressing things along and is able to make things so much more enticing. However, the actual ending of the movie isn't the most satisfactory. The entire movie feels like it is building up to something so much bigger, but the end falls a little short, since it doesn't deliver anything massive and ends abruptly without much context of what happens next, leaving audiences with a want for more but not in a good way. The conclusion doesn't really tie up all loose knots, like it should, and this is definitely felt, because it is certainly one of the weaker parts of an otherwise solid movie. 
 The Bourne Legacy does manage to have a talented cast though. Jeremy Renner does an awesome job of portraying Aaron Cross and is really able to transform into a character that feels lost in a complicated world that he really doesn't even begin to understand the true extent of. Edward Norton does an amazing job of playing Eric Byer and is really able to turn into a formidable threat that has the ability and want to eliminate all of the people whose lives he's destroyed due to his various programs. 
 

Although The Bourne Legacy isn't as directly related to Jason Bourne as it could be, this movie still possesses many similar qualities to the others in the series. There's still the presence of the government embarking on programs to create the perfect soldier and wanting to ensure that there are no traces of evidence capable of being brought back to them. The protagonist of the movie still isn't that positive of what's really going on, and it's partially unclear how much he knows about his past, which is quite similar to Jason Bourne. There's still the threat of having trained assassins take on the products of the programs, as well as the concept of running away to foreign countries and trying to hide from the government there. There are some action-packed scenes that have some fantastic battles, but because the ending of the movie feels like it ends too quickly, these battles seem to feel less significant. 

 Unfortunately for The Bourne Legacy, this movie seemed to be disliked the most out of all of the others in the franchise. Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie an alright 56%, which is actually the lowest mark out of all of the movies by a long shot. IMDb gave the movie an okay 6.7/10, which really isn't that great but is a slightly better mark. Although a fairly impressive 85% of Google users liked the movie, this is still the lowest amount when compared with the other three movies to date. 
 

The Bourne Legacy isn't the best movie in the Bourne franchise, but it is still certainly worth watching, because it manages to stay true to the Bourne movies' formula and tries to keep the legacy going. Although Bourne's legacy continues, for those who haven't seen the others in the franchise, this isn't the best place to start.