Thursday, 6 December 2012

Bourne Legacy
(2012)

RATING:40%
FORMAT:DVD



A would-be critique of a White culture whose lack of empathy is designed to enable world-domination without guilt that turns into an obsessive attempt to blind us with scientific mumbo-jumbo about DNA and behavioral modification. The film’s lack of empathy for its central characters and the lack of human warmth evident in the direction make us wonder why White anhedonia is being criticized - especially when its critics are just as anhedonic.

The movie’s theme (White foreign policy is morally-indefensible but absolutely necessary) is never meaningfully-explored - even as superficially as it was in the previous Bourne movies.

One feels the lack of Matt Damon’s boyish charm in this charmless and characterless exercise that wastes the considerable talents of some of the world’s best actors. Exciting car chase notwithstanding, this is the worst Bourne film so far.


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