Rating of
3/4
Entertaining Action Film
TheWolf - wrote on 08/06/07
Jack Ryan is a CIA analyst, who made a report of the possible candidate president Nemerov, who suddenly becomes the President of Russia. Anyways, some time back in the 70's a plane went down that was carrying a nuclear bomb, but the bomb never exploded. After so so many years it was found in the rubble in Israel. That bomb was then sold to a secret Nazi militia that wish to put Russia and America to war against each other. In comes in DCI Cabot, who takes Jack Ryan with him to Russia to inspect their nuclear bombs, but get suspicious when a few scientists are missing. As they return the President of USA heads for Baltimore to see a football game, but Ryan discovers a nuclear bomb is going to blow up there at the stadium.
Recasting Jack Ryan was an decent idea, it has done wonders to keep the James Bond franchise alive, and since Jack Ryan is a similar kind of hero, having a change in cast can't hurt. The only thing that most people questioned was the replacement of Harrison Ford with Ben Affleck. While a different actor could have been a more accepted choice, Afflek didn't hurt the film. I did like the idea in recasting the Jack Ryan character as a young, inexperienced, low-ranking CIA employee, as the book itself was the first Jack Ryan novel. In the "The Sum of All Fears", Jack isn't even a field agent, and a far cry from the uber-agent the Harrison Ford character had become. Very good, and somewhat against the grain for all too many action adventure heroes today. I like my characters believable and wince when they defy the laws of physics.
All in all I enjoyed this movie.
