Reboot #478. This is our review of Tom
Clancy's character's most recent film adaptation 'SHADOW RECRUIT: JACK RYAN'.
By Staff
'Jack Ryan' has been played by three
different actors before Chris Pine; Alec Baldwin in 'The hunt for the red
October', Harrison Ford in 'Patriot games' (an awesome flick) and 'Clear and present Danger',
and also by Ben Affleck in 'The sum of all fears'.
In this reboot the story takes off with
Ryan as a college student who, after the attack on the twin towers, joins the
U.S. Military.
After acting like a true hero, the CIA
recruits him to be an agent on Wall Street and investigate suspicious bank
accounts, possibly related to terrorists, and thus prevent further attacks.
When he finds discrepancies and hidden
information on some Soviet Union accounts, Ryan is sent to Russia to
investigate further.
Things get complicated (it is an action
film after all) when while trying to steal secret information from businessman
'Viktor Cherevin', played by Kenneth Branagh, who also directed the movie, Ryan takes
longer than planned and a simple mission turns into an International event.
Analysis and opinion:
About two years Hollywood admitted they
have run out of new ideas. This is why there're so many reboots and sequels as
of lately (news of a reboot for 'Poltergeist' broke recently. Why? Where does
the need to ruin a horror classic come from?). This movie proves that not all
films can achieve J.J.Abrahams' STAR TREK's success.
This flick isn't bad really, but fails in
way too many aspects to achieve being unique or even different from recent
actions ones. During the first 45 minutes the story is boring and not what the
audience expects it to be; the screenplay isn't bad either, in fact, we see a
CIA aspect rarely seen before in film (though after the end result it could
very well be the first and last time we do), but the emotions and character
arcs are quite disappointing.
Chris Pine's interpretation is difficult to
analyze because he has been in so many action films in recent years that his
characters are starting to merge. The rest of the characters are flat and uninteresting.
As an example, Viktor Cherevin is the typical villain that we've seen hundreds of
times; he isn't a real threat to the protagonist even after he planned his
attack for years.
If you saw any of the movie posters then
you know Kevin Costner is this film and plays one of the main characters. And
if you are paying attention, you'll realize this is the first time we've
mentioned him. His interpretation is all right, but his character is a mixture
of many different CIA agents- sure of himself, smart, a leader, but also unsure
of what to do and slow to act in tough situations. We never get a real idea of
what or who he is as an agent.
Finally, the movie has three action
sequences. How do we know this? Because we counted them and for the editing
involved. They aren't bad per say, but neither are they original or
suspenseful; they entertain but don't thrill.
This is one flick that entertains you for a
little while but nothing more. That's probably why we haven't heard anything
about a possible sequel in the making.
5/10
DISCOUNT THEATER OR RENTAL.
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