Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
After the 9/11 attacks, Ryan a spectacular man volunteered in a military operation. However he got disrupted. He became a CIA agent and worked on a mission to track down terrorists but had to keep it undercover even from his family and friends.
28 May 1979, London, England, UK
23 February 1976, Denver, Colorado, USA
21 November 1973, Monroe, Louisiana, USA
3 November 1957, Liverpool, England, UK
30 May 1979, Sterling, Illinois, USA
26 March 1985, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK
15 January 1984, Derby, England, UK
June 21, 2016
Focal compositions and moody editing in the vein of Hitchcock help establish suspense and emotion without the need for excessive special effects or big-budget set pieces.
March 14, 2014
I'm aware that commercial and cultural forces require everything to be rebooted triennially with fresher, hotter stars. But this is the second time the Jack Ryan franchise has rejected a youth transplant.
January 17, 2014
A pretty suspenseful, largely engaging, and hardly ever too-over-the-top spy thriller.
April 18, 2016
(Director) Branagh doesn't reinvent the wheel here, but he does take the rims off a flashy 2014 Tesla and put them on a 1985 Camaro: a big, comfy muscle car asking only that you point it in the right direction and step on the gas.
February 28, 2017
The main characters and the performances behind them are nicely pitched.
September 22, 2014
"Shadow Recruit" is fun in a minor, winter-season way.
January 24, 2014
The dim star wattage in this fifth rehash is palpable from the start.
July 14, 2016
As an action-thriller, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is more or less competent. As an heir to the Jack Ryan mantle, however, it is less so.
April 23, 2015
The vulnerability of the Jack Ryan character is still present, something very important that keeps us rooting for him.
January 20, 2014
Director Kenneth Branagh knows how to invest the ridiculous with a sort of grandeur - Exhibit A: the surprisingly fun Thor - but Shadow Recruit is more straightforward in nature, so he can't get too fancy.
April 14, 2016
A dull, vacant post-Cold War spy yarn that has nothing to say about anything.
January 21, 2014
This is the very definition of an OK thriller.
