Review of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) by Bikerjames — 21 Jan 2014
Chris Pine is the latest to play Jack Ryan, following Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, and Ben Affleck. This latest version is made in the more modern style of the Bourne and Mission Impossible movies with a lot of action and noise.
Most of the movie is completely ludicrous, as are most movies in this genre, but it is well made and acted. I was hoping before the movie even began that it wouldn't have the dreaded countdown timer at the end of the movie, but of course they had to throw that in as it seems to be a requirement in all these spy movies.
The scene on the airplane where everyone is trying to figure out where the bad guy is and where he's going to strike next is really ridiculous how they figure it all out in about 3 minutes so you really have to suspend all belief when watching a film like this.
This review of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) was written by Bikerjames on 21 Jan 2014.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit has generally received mixed reviews.
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