Bourne Trilogy spinoff spins off cutting-edge bioengineering jargon
Genome research goers viral with Rachel Weisz in "The Bourne Legacy."
Bourne Trilogy spinoff spins off cutting-edge bioengineering jargon
Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic
Tony Gilroy, writer and director of The Bourne Legacy, gives leading lady Rachel Weisz a job as a brilliant if ethically suspect biochemist working out of a top secret pharmaceutical lab in the Maryland burbs. Her association with Jeremy Renner’s Aaron Cross, the new movie’s on-the-run deep cover intel op, was purely clinical: He drops in for high-tech testing, and for a new supply of blue and green pills to facilitate his mental and physical enhancement.
Weisz’s Dr. Marta Shearing and her colleagues are working with viruses, meds and biogenetic engineering. “I was there for the science,” she says, defensively, after the whole thing has gone to hell and she’s joined Renner, trying to dodge CIA spooks and National Security nabobs. But in the midst of all the shootouts and chases, the actress gets to deliver some classic Gliroy-scripted lines. Here’s our fave:
“It’s the most exciting development in genomic acceleration in the history of science!”
If you bump into Weisz on the street, ask her to do the genomic acceleration line for you.
If I bump into Ms. Weisz on the street, the last thing I'm thinking about is "genomic acceleration."— verve
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