The Bourne Legacy is a fascinating new chapter in the story about secret super soldiers and the projects that spawned them. It’s smart, action filled (not packed) and it follows the dual developing stories of government factions trying to clean up after themselves and one lone soldier, realizing he’s about to be neutralized, struggle to survive against an enemy that has endless resources. I enjoyed this look at the story of projects Treadstone and Black Briar.
The Bourne Legacy is directed by Tony Gilroy who also co-wrote the script with Dan Gilroy.
Tony’s past includes screenplay writing of the previous Bourne franchise movies, as well as State of Play and Armageddon. This wasn’t his first directorial gig, so there’s that. Dan’s past writing experience includes Real Steel (a great surprise of a story actually) and The Fall.
The cast includes Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross, & Rachel Weisz as Dr. Marta Shearing. Then there’s the “evil” government bosses of Scott Glenn, Stacy Keach, Edward Norton as well as David Strathairn and few others who reprise their roles from the previous Bourne movies.
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This week is one of the lightest weeks for new DVD & Blu-ray releases. There are only around 25 new titles (The number includes variations of releases, between DVD, Blu-ray, 3D, etc.). Still, I don’t think I’ve ever seen so few new releases come out in a single week.
But some of the releases could be considered worthy titles to add to any collection.
Top Selling Titles
For the week ending November 25th, Brave, The Expendables 2, Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups, Disney Fairies: Secret of Wings, and The Avengers rounded out the top-five selling titles.
Rentals had a different look. Where sales look a bit focused on the family, rentals were the visceral fun flicks. The Amazing Spider-Man, The Expendables 2, The Campaign, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Brave rounded out the top of the rental heap.
Per Rentrak Corporation.
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Here’s what we have for new releases for either sale or rent! You do know that you can rent videos from Amazon, right? The numbers in brackets are user review ratings from IMDb, rounded up or down.
Ted
Starring Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg
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The Bourne Legacy
Starring Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton and Joan Allen
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