Movie Review: ‘The Bourne Legacy’

The wildly successful “Bourne” movies tend to have certain ingredients. There is some form of identity crisis, usually due to memory loss. In addition, the franchise features exotic, rivetingly realistic fight scenes utilizing the Israeli military’s Krav Maga and the Filipino stick-fighting arts of Kali, Arnis, and Escrima.
Movie Review: ‘The Bourne Legacy’
Rachel Weisz and Jeremy Renner in the action-adventure thriller “The Bourne Legacy,” a film about a man who aims to become an elite government operative but is forced to go on the run. (Mary Cybulski/ Universal Studios)
Mark Jackson
8/11/2012
Updated:
9/29/2015
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Mark Jackson is the chief film critic for The Epoch Times. In addition to the world’s number-one storytelling vehicle—film, he enjoys martial arts, weightlifting, Harley-Davidsons, vision questing, rock-climbing, qigong, oil painting, and human rights activism. Mark earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Williams College, followed by a classical theater training, and has 20 years’ experience as a New York professional actor, working in theater, commercials, and television daytime dramas. He recently narrated the Epoch Times audiobook “How the Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World,” which is available on iTunes and Audible. Mr. Jackson is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic.
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