As of now The Bourne Supremacy
is my favourite of the film adaptations of The Bourne Trilogy. Mainly because
it doesn’t involve a pretty lady risking her life simply to be a part of this
ride. Of course, their relationship later develops into a half-baked affair.
Well, that’s fiction for you. And I’m not complaining. I’m just naturally more
inclined towards realism. The Bourne Legacy, within its fictional confines, is
the most realistic instalment to date. Rachel Weisz’s character doesn’t hop on
because she wants to begin an affair with Jeremy Renner’s Aaron Cross. She has
no plan, not a clue about saving herself from a very powerful organization and
she needs Aaron Cross, just as much as he needs her pharmaceutical experience
to disinfect him.
Despite
running in parallel to the previous instalment, The Bourne Legacy somehow
doesn’t share so much with its predecessors. It’s the same world but the
approach begins from elsewhere, the take is different and the perspective is through
another pair of eyes. The hunted doesn’t interest film-maker Tony Gilroy as
much as its hunter, or hunters. The Bourne Legacy is The Ghost Writer meets
Michael Clayton meets Bourne, in that
order. Even the swarm of antagonists are
given a fair share of screen-time and their mastermind, Eric Byer (Edward
Norton), a good deal of characterization.
