Episode 32: The Bourne Legacy

Kill James Bond!

November, Abigail, and Devon

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv & Film:film Reviews

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The Bourne Legacy is a perfect case study for what happens when a series is getting tired, so you bring in a new guy to breathe new life into it- and it really works! until the final half hour, where it's heroic attempt to reach out of the pile of slop, like Sandman in Spider Man 3 attempting to impose order on his constituent parts through sheer force of will, eventually fails and it collapses back into formless, meaningless Bourne-slop. Or something like that Find bonus episodes at our reasonably-priced patreon!https://www.patreon.com/killjamesbond *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Find us at https://killjamesbond.com and https://twitter.com/killjamesbond

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0:00.0	We are morally indefensible and absolutely necessary.
0:20.4	Hello and welcome to another episode of Kill James Bond.
0:23.2	I am Alice Caldwell Kelly, joining me as always, are Abigail Thorne and Devon.
0:27.1	Hello.
0:27.8	How you doing?
0:28.7	And we have committed to this program.
0:31.8	We have watched the one good film they accidentally put in the middle of the Bourne franchise as a joke?
0:40.5	Mostly.
0:41.6	The one that doesn't have Jason Bourne in it?
0:45.7	We watched the Bourne Legacy, the one where they tried to hand it off to Jeremy Renner, and it doesn't quite work.
0:53.0	I was surprised by this film because I thought this was going to be a soft reboot.
0:57.5	But actually listeners, no, unless you have recently watched the last three Jason
1:02.8	born films and taken very detailed notes, which we have, this will be incomprehensible.
1:10.7	They won't stop referencing thing.
1:13.4	It's fully a part of the like BCU, the Bourne Cinematic Universe.
1:18.2	It exists on the same timeline as the previous Born movie, the Born...
1:24.6	Ultimatum.
1:25.8	Automatum.
1:32.3	But like partially overlapping and like parallel to it. And so we begin in the middle of nowhere in Alaska where we are introduced to the recurring theme of just a guy lying completely dead in the water and you think it's Jason Bourne.
1:42.3	But it's actually Aaron Cross, Jeremy Renner, who begins with a perfect
1:49.2	Pierce Brosnan emerging from water shots.
1:52.6	Looking good.
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