Instead of making a movie based "Without Remorse" - probably the best Tom Clancy novel, we get this modern post 9-11 action movie which has every action movie element from the last 20 years.
When Hollywood uses the term reboot, it means that they have no real ideas, so what they do is buy the rights to the name of the main character and use it for some trite, clichéd screenplay.
The story involves Jack Ryan who enlists in the Marines in 2001 after the 9-11 attack only to become a hero in the Afghanistan Theatre of Operation. He then goes to work for the CIA to monitor terror funds after telling his CIA recruiter, played by Kevin Costner, that he's upset over waterboarding and rendition.
However, ten years later America's enemies are not Islamists, but those nasty Russians who plot the destruction of the US economy (no thanks, we doing a better job on our own).
The central city of the terror plot is Dearborn Michigan where, I guess, the main threat comes from the Russian Orthodox Church goers. I was always under the impression that Dearborn was one of the Holy Sites of Islam.
Not even a grown up and very attractive Keira Knightley is worth the admission to this film. There was a scene where Costner steals a dog to meet Ryan in the streets of Moscow. Even the dog is embarrassed to be in this movie.
Then for the last 20 minutes of this film, your intelligence is pretty much insulted. There is very little good about this movie, even the soundtrack is subpar.
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Anything with Kevin Costner in it is a no go anyway.
I intended to go to this movie tonight until I read a critique about it that pretty much mirrored your review.
Attack of the pod people. Jack has been replaced with a metro-sexual leftist clone.
No thanks
Ah, the cognitive dissonance of Hollyweird.
Yeah, this is nuts. Next movie, the world will be held hostage by Amish extremists from Indiana.
I read most of the Jack Ryan books and have decided to steer clear of this movie because the character in this is a RINO (Ryan In Name Only). I had hopes for Rainbow Six and Without Remorse as film adaptations, but decided I was happy with the books after seeing what happened when The Sum of All Fears was adapted for the big screen.
Oh well. I’ll be saving gas, ticket, and popcorn money.
Gee, what reboot will Chris Pine star in next?
Wow! You’re very generous IMHO in your reviews.
This must stink to high heaven.
Sigh. I had a feeling the Russians were the enemy.
“Even the dog is embarrassed to be in this movie.”
LOL, thanks for your review/warning.
It sounds truly dreadful.
Holding it back for a January release sounds like they knew they had a turkey on their hands.
This is the second time Hollywood assclowns have made the enemy white guys instead of raggers in a Clancy vehicle
Sum of All Fears
Lol
We live in a Soviet disinformation era
Or what about almost dead white guy in windshield
Black lunatic woman in real life is culprit
In movie its a wigger(sorry mod...tell me a better word I’ll use it) played by Men’s Suvari
Pushing a film's release from Christmas to January is Hollywood's way of telling us that it's a stinker and they know it. January is where movies go to die a quick death.
Agree completely that Without Remorse was the best or tied-for-the-best Clancy. So strange though. Clancy suggests in Red October that Christopher Reed is the only choice for Ryan, yet Hollywood continues 1) to come up with utter losers in the role (including Harrison Ford!) and then 2) to cartoonize them (remember Alec Baldwin?). And William Dafoe as John Clark? Please.
That shows you that Hollywood ran out of ideas and inspiration generations ago. Now they’ve resorted to using a character and storyline from an old TV show. When I read the FR headline, I thought they were talking about a new videogame.
By the way, to all you gamers out there, Call Of Duty Ghosts is amazing! It’s worth the 60 bucks. It has levels and levels on top of levels. Just don’t get lost in it.
Did they ever announce what killed Tom Clancy?
I’m wondering if it was watching a pre-screening of this movie ...
Saw it ast Wednesday in a free preview. I found it to be a very bland action movie. What insulted me about it beyond the unrealistic plot was that the villain goes to church and prays for revenge on America. The little dollop of gratuitous anti Christianity made me downgrade this to Bantha poodoo.