First off, my condolences to those who watched the new trailer for The Bourne Legacy having completely forgotten that Matt Damon would not be starring in the franchise’s fourth installment. Maybe you were so befuddled by Damon’s absence that you, like your blogger, half expected to start speaking fluent German, engage in hand-to-hand combat on the nearest police officer, discover a safe-deposit-box account number implanted in your hip, and then realize, after catching your reflection in a nearby mirror, that you are Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne.Stranger things have happened! Now that you have wrapped your mind around the fact that Jeremy Renner will be The Bourne Legacy’s star, though, let’s take another look at the trailer and see how he stacks up to Damon’s C.I.A. agent.
After sitting through titles that obscure anywhere from 25 to 80 percent of the screen—because nothing says “see this movie” like a preview in which you literally cannot “see this movie”—viewers are informed that “there was never just one.” In fact, judging by this trailer, there were at minimum two handsome blond C.I.A. operatives who look good in black and at one time promised that they had the “strength to do what’s necessary” to protect their government. Like Damon’s Bourne, Renner’s Aaron Cross has an equally great blank expression and action impulses, especially when it comes to jamming nails into fire extinguishers to create makeshift weapons and mercilessly beating up men who clearly deserved it. (We hope.) Additionally, like good footwear or tires, Renner’s Aaron Cross transitions well between seasons. In one sequence, he connects his fist with a uniformed official’s face while wearing a T-shirt, and in another, he leaps from a tall snow-covered tree while wearing a winter jacket. He is functional in multiple climates! Also, he can aim a sniper weapon at a plane. (No word yet on whether he hits the plane. We’re just going to have to wait until August 3 for that answer.)
In case the above evidence doesn’t sell you on Jeremy Renner’s ability to match Matt Damon in Jason Bourne-ness, allow the trailer to make this point for you: “He’s a Treadstone agent without the inconsistency.” Burn! Somehow Jeremy Renner is even Bourne-ier than Bourne himself.
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