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Rating: 6.5 stars

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

Directed by Kenneth Branagh

Thriller | Action

Most recently watched by ashe5k, jeneot33, scottfinn, sleestakk, danielt, Allison, schofizzy, jcdeleon1, Adrian_Charlie, PeterMartin

Overview

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

Rated PG-13 | Length 105 minutes

Actors

Chris Pine | Keira Knightley | Kevin Costner | Kenneth Branagh | Lenn Kudrjawizki | Colm Feore | Gemma Chan | Alec Utgoff | Peter Andersson | Nonso Anozie | Aleksandar Aleksiev | Deborah Rosan | Price Lindsey | Celine Jedidi | Ricky Rajpal | Karen David | David Paymer | David Hayman | Amy J. Kim | Bogdan Kominowski | Maggie Daniels | Annika Pergament | Seth Ayott | Andrew Byron | Derek Lea | Andy Butcher | Pat Kiernan | Ian Bonar | Elena Velikanova | Lloyd Bass | Santino Fontana | Mikhail Baryshnikov | Matt Rippy | Kieron Jecchinis | William Meredith | Leonard Redlich | Angus Wright | Emmanuel Imani | Alexander Terentyev

Viewing History (seen 4 times)

Viewing Notes

Not terrible, and had the beginnings of an interesting back story for the character, but too many eye-rolling moments broke the suspension of disbelief that movies like this rely on to get you hooked. Once out of the film, it would take some time to reinvest in the story.

It seems difficult for Hollywood to make movies like this that don’t let the action overtake everything else.

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