Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

I didn't think it failed at all. I thought it was good, and that is a genre that is my favorite. It was different, but I liked the way that he was dealing with intelligence issues and was not just in a bunch of car chases the whole time.

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Harrison Ford and even Alec Baldwin captured Ryan's hesitancy and analytical nature to everything he did. He was always capable if he had to be, but was the first to use it only as a last resort. I'm sure the new reboot is geared toward people who haven't read Tom Clancy and probably don't read much of anything else.

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Like I said, that was the weakness. They tried to capture it - they even talked about it. But, Chris Pine didn't pull it off as well as an older Ford did. Baldwin was meh along those lines, though he did a good job overall.

By the end of the movie, it turned into the classic "chase the bad guy action movie" thing which was not really Jack Ryan's thing, so it veered a bit there. But, overall, I thought it was very good if I didn't spend all of my time comparing it to the earlier books/movies.

Now, the beginning about Baltimore, Marines, helicopter crash, back breaking, CIA is all the same as the originals. It just updates it from Vietnam/Cold War stuff to the War on Terror.

Very good overall, for that genre.

Refuse to watch. They wanted a Bourne style hero. I hope it was a dismal failure.

I would rather see any of the books than this crap.