the bourne legacy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194173/

i was expecting the bourne legacy to suck balls, and so it was a pleasant surprise to find that i rather enjoyed it.  against all odds, edward norton refrained from being godawful, and jeremy renner, who had thus far escaped my wrathful eye, actually did a fine job of being a super agent.  with that said, this film did not add anything that we have not already seen, other than advancing the jason bourne storyline a bit more.

i am starting to be concerned that they may not produce a crappy bourne movie that we can all agree is the worst one.  this is an important point.  people come together around a film or set of films because of the goodness, but they unite because of the badness.  you need something to fill in the gaps in the conversation and the "yeah, but..." moments.  in a movie series, that is usually the second or third one, though there are exceptions, such as the fast and furious series, where it was the second *and* third one, and the underworld series, where it was every movie *starting* with the second one.  if you put it too late in the series, you run the risk of making the fans violently angry at the sudden, though admittedly inevitable, betrayal.  the exception to this "violently angry" rule is the case where a series starts good and then follows an easily observable trajectory in the downward direction.

anywho, the bourne legacy gets three blue pills.