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'The Bourne Legacy' Review: Fourth Installment Can't Replicate Damon's Movie Star Magnetism

I suppose it could be said that "The Bourne Legacy" isn’t exactly the picture that fans of this billion-dollar franchise were expecting, except that I suspect it actually is. The movie is a predictable letdown. Paul Greengrass, who directed the last two "Bournes" (Doug Liman directed the first one), has a gift for exciting, high-style action that defies replication. New director Tony Gilroy—the lead writer on all three previous installments—isn’t noted as an action man (his two other pictures are "Michael Clayton" and "Duplicity"), and he may have known going in that there was no way to completely fill the huge boots left empty by Greengrass’ departure.
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