Date Released : 17 January 2014
Genre : Action, Mystery, Thriller
Stars : Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh
Movie Quality : HDrip
Format : MKV
Size : 700 MB
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A new version of the saga of CIA analyst, Jack Ryan. It begins when Ryan was attending the London School of Economics; and 9/11 happened. He would then enlist in the Marines and would go to Afghanistan. The chopper he was on would get shot down and he would suffer severe injuries that would require intense rehab. While there, he grabs the attention of a man named Harper, who works for the CIA and would like him to finish his studies and get a job on Wall Street so he can find out of any terrorist plot through their finances. A few years later, Ryan finds anomalies in the accounts of a Russian named Cherevin. Jack thinks he should go to Russia to find out what's going on. Jack was told not to tell anyone who he is and that includes his girl friend Cathy. But she catches Jack in some lies which makes her doubt him. Jack goes to Russia and Cherevin assigns him someone to take care of him. But when they're alone the man tries to kill Jack. So Jack kills him. Obvious Cherevin is hiding ...
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Review :
A movie that came out 20 years too late
In the midst of Hollywood's creative crisis, when any remotely successful movie in the last three decades gets remade, or as PR executives like to say, re-imagined, it made sense to bring up one of the most popular characters in "airport novels" during the last years of the Cold War: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, enter Kenneth Branagh's Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.
Problem is, the Jack Ryan novels were about subjects that right now are irrelevant and outdated, like the Russian paranoia or the Colombian drug cartels boom. So how do you update a character like Jack Ryan in a contemporary scenario? Answer: you really don't, at least according to Branagh.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit still heavily relies on every Cold War spy movie cliché in the book: Non-Russian actors playing stereotypical Russian villains, unsubtle showings of U.S. patriotism, and a bland damsel in distress to name a few. Then again, you can't expect much creativity from a script written by David Koepp, who usually writes very formulaic stories filled with underdeveloped characters and some of the corniest and most cringe-worthy dialog that has ever been heard. Action scenes are nothing you haven't seen in any 007 or Mission: Impossible movie executed before and better.
The Jack Ryan in the movie has little to nothing to do with the Jack Ryan depicted in the Tom Clancy novels. In the source material (and I use that term loosely), Ryan was a CIA analyst that ended up as an accidental working class hero. In the movie, they made him a Jason Bourne wannabe, which doesn't make much sense keeping in mind Ryan's experience in the field is relatively short for such a dangerous work. Also, the novels were more focused on the political tension of a very specific period in history and didn't have as much action as this movie.
The actors seemed to be in the project just to pick up their paychecks. Chris Pine was a logic choice for playing Ryan, even though he's arguably too young for the role (Jack Ryan is supposed to be in his forties). He helped to revive the Star Trek franchise, so maybe the producers hoped he could revive Jack Ryan as well. He seems to be getting the roles Tom Cruise would have gotten 20 years ago. He's not bad, but he's not particularly memorable either. Keira Knightley gets off her typecasting in period films with a not very convincing American accent and without the hammy acting she usually displays, being just decent. Kevin Costner and Kenneth Branagh could be described as different sides of the same coin. Both actors have shown fairly good acting and even directing throughout their careers, but sometimes failing to deliver. Kevin Costner phones in his performance like he did in The Postman or Waterworld. Kenneth Branagh on the other hand is not very different from a standard Saturday morning cartoon villain.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit ends up being a pointless excuse of a reboot that will end up in the Walmart discount tray a few months after being released in home formats. Might be worth to check out a Saturday afternoon with nothing better to do, but it certainly won't be remembered as one the best spy films in history.
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