Review of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) by A T — 27 Aug 2014

This might be the worst film of 2014 that seemed to actually have tried (meaning it wasn't dumb like Let's Be Cops for obvious reasons). Sadly, the film tries to be way overcomplicated to the point where every flaw is way too open, and thus just make it unbearable.

Unlike Jack Reacher where Cruise has some charisma, Pine is flat and dull. Knightley just seems really uncomfortable doing her terrible American accent. For a straight thriller it just feels too boring, bogged with so much economics talk, Costner has to remind Pine to talk like an idiot.

It rips off too much from Ghost Protocol and The Dark Knight Rises (God, who told them to steal the worst part of that movie too? I mean the water? The bomb? NYC? Cops underground?).