USA's new series tries to offer Jason Bourne without Jason Bourne — and without much brains, but with lots of brainless action.
— it seemed that the story had run its course. Plus, Matt Damon was busy.
Ah, but it's really difficult to stop producers who know a money franchise when they reap rewards from it, so we got with no actual Bourne but the actual Jeremy Renner. It seemed like the end — if Renner, a fine actor, couldn't re-spark the franchise, who could? , the title a seeming nod to the need to reintroduce him after the Renner thing that detoured around the main man but lived in the universe.
This is a series that flashes back in time and then feels the need to say "present day" when, yeah, it's pretty clear we're out of the 1970s at that point. Plus, there's a scene where CIA agent J. Randolph Bentley successfully fights his way out of the grasp of the KGB, which had been trying to break him down and turn him.
As these sleeper agents are waking up, the bigger picture will probably be just who is doing the waking and for what nefarious purpose. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out if a half-baked idea from a fully-baked movie franchise is really worth your time given everything else that's on.
Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Brian J. Smith, Hyo Joo Han, Tracy Ifeachor, Gabrielle Scharnitzky, Michelle Forbes, Michael Gaston, Emilia Schule, Premieres Oct. 15, 10 p.m., USA
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