Although Jason Bourne never shows in this fourth installment of the Bourne series, the action of this film runs alongside that of the third, The Bourne Ultimatum, in which agent Bourne goes rogue after a journalist is shot dead while working on a sensational story about sinister CIA operations, including experiments in neuro-pharmacology, creating a team of genetically modified super-agents.

One of Jason’s fellow covert warriors is Aaron Cross, who has to go on the run when intelligence chief Eric Byer, decides that the compromised project has to be shut down and every single agent ruthlessly rubbed out. So Cross takes off, gallantly taking with him the beautiful and bewildered government scientist Dr. Marta Shearing who has also been earmarked for termination with extreme prejudice. A very long chase scene keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Director: Tony Gilroy. Cast: Jeremy Renner, Edward Norton, Rachel Weisz, Joan Allen, Albert Finney. Rated: PG-13. Time: 2:15.