Review of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) by Danielle C — 09 Feb 2016

A film so generic perhaps a one-word review would suffice. To add some depth - the casting varies from wise (Costner as the recruiter/mentor) to the heavily flawed (Knightley as the combative love interest) but everything else is Hollywood-spy-drama-plotholes-ahoy by the numbers.

The deepest mystery to consider is why Branagh directed it this way and, indeed, cast himself to play the ultimate Russian bad guy stereotype. Talk about a waste of talent (though my wife would add a star for Chris Pine alone).