Jeremy Renner replaces Matt Damon in the fourth "Bourne" flick, which deals with betrayal and lost identity.

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Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) is one of a good handful of agents of the top secret government agency Outcome, which uses pills, injections and other medical experiments to create superhumans. Despite satisfactory results, the agency's funding is about to be pulled because the atrocities perpetrated by Jason Bourne's similar CIA program Treadstone is in the headlines. The scrupulous puppet master Byer does everything he can to hide all traces of the program, but Cross manages to escape his hunters – joining forces with his Outcome doctor, of all people, to try and survive.

The Bourne Legacy is a bit of everything but not really a thing of itself: it's not a classic sequel, since Matt Damon is nowhere in sight, and it's also not a remake or reboot either. Instead, Tony Gilroy's movie continues where The Bourne Ultimatum left off, just with a new lead character. Plot-wise this is good, but qualitatively not so much, because although Jeremy Renner does his best in the starring role and some of the action sequences give the overlong film some movement, it never reaches the level of suspense of the first three movies.