Aaron Cross, an agent from Operation Outcome played by Jeremy
Renner, manages to escape from being executed as the CIA decides
to dispose of their black ops programs and terminate their field
agents. (Video: Universal Pictures)  An anxious world confronts
the question: Can a Bourne-again movie succeed without Matt
Damon as Jason Bourne, without Bourne himself, and without a
Robert Ludlum book as the production's turn-by-turn guide? Yes,
it can. "The Bourne Legacy" is a solid success, primarily though
not entirely because of Jeremy Renner. He's a star worthy of the
term as Aaron Cross, another haunted operative who, like Jason
Bourne, is as much a victim of the government's dirty deeds as a
covert super-agent. But the production is impressive too. The
director, Tony Gilroy, who wrote the screenplay with his
brother, Dan Gilroy, has taken reliable elements from the Ludlum
canon—nothing revolutionary here—added humanity, heated that up
to genuine passion in the person of Rachel Weisz's government
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