Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is a 2014 American action thriller film, directed by and co-starring Kenneth Branagh. Chris Pine, Kevin Costner and Keira Knightley star in leading roles. The film features the fictional Jack Ryan character created by author Tom Clancy. It is the fifth film in the Jack Ryan series which is presented as a reboot that departs from the previous installments. Unlike its predecessors, it is not an adaptation of a particular Clancy novel, but rather an original story. Pine stars in the title role, becoming the fourth actor to play Ryan, following Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck. The film delves deep into the origins of The Dr.John Patrick Jack Ryan. While many veterans have played the role of Jack Ryan (Kevin Costner himself was offered the role in The Hunt for Red October), Chris Pine is quite convincing and lives upto expectations, although at times youd feel like he is the one army out there to do everything humanly possible. Kevin Costner does his bit, Keira Knightley looks beautiful and is kind of an overly attached girlfriend. Director Kenneth Branagh plays the antagonist, Professor Gilderoy Lockhart was quite convincing as the Russian bad guy and his accent compelled me to confuse him with a Russian actor. Not the best Jack Ryan reboot though. 3/5
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 09:02:24 +0000
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