saru-88447
Typically copied from soem old tamil movie.
Seems like Hollywood is becoming full of copy-cats.
juneebuggy
This was pretty average as far as action movies go, nothing stand out. Chris Pine does a decent enough job, I always like him even in something as generic as this turned out to be. I also enjoy Keira Knightley but her role as the girlfriend/fiancé was flat and could have been played by anyone. Which sets the tone for this whole movie.Dubbed an "explosive thriller" (not so much) Shadow Recruit is another addition to the Jack Ryan-Tom Clancy franchise. This reboot follows Ryan as an ordinary executive, who is also secretly working for the CIA. One day while crunching data he discovers a Russian conspiracy that will destroy the U.S. economy and spark global chaos. He becomes the only man with the skills to stop it and soon finds himself in Russia, caught between his secretive handler, his clueless fiancé and a brilliant Russian leader.Kevin Costner was decent as the mentor once again giving a Liam Neeson take on his role, Kenneth Branagh was very good as the Russian bad guy and there are a couple of fun cameos from Mikhail Baryshnikov and Nonso Anozie.I also enjoyed the early set up scenes where we gain background into Ryan's character; as a student pre 911, a marine, and his time in the rehab hospital. The ending went far into OTT land, getting quite silly as Chris becomes a full operative, saves America from financial ruin and rescues his girlfriend. All in this wasn't terrible, a decent time waster its just generic.
lorra-a-a
It's entertaining movie, a perfect operator, a good script. Movie is about the villains from Russia, spies (!!!) (of course script has hackneyed cliché, maybe even stupid cliché... but anyway...), so... I liked this movie a lot... Anyway! :-) Great actors, exciting scenes… As always I was satisfied a lot with Kenneth Branagh and Kevin Costner. I was surprised to discovered Chris Pine. And as usual I didn't like Kira Knightley (i don't know why... i find her too much plastic). But I like acting of Elena Velikanova. Cute, open mind, creative person. She could show us strong, willed nature of Katya. In summary, I can only say that "Jack Ryan" is high-quality Hollywood product, I recommend everyone, who still haven't watched ;-)
c-conley90
I know two faced in my review of this movie. On one had, it's rather dry as far as Jack Ryan movies go. Hell, it doesn't have a football stadium blowing up in it like Sum of All Fears. Chris Pine is good, Kevin Costner is excellent, Keira Knightley is playing sort of a damsel in distress at parts of this?!! OK, this kind of blindsides me after years of Pirates of the Caribbean movies where she could kick some person's ass if she wanted to. The director is the bad guy. Oh wait, sorry Spoilers! He's actually not bad as a sleazy Russian extremist terrorist. His end is however a letdown. The action scenes are great, but again the whole movie as a whole is a meh. I would watch it again, if I need a fast paced Spy Thriller to watch. I can see why this bombed and it never saw a sequel.
