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An average movie

Even though ‘The Sum of All Fears’ has a rather lame reputation, I thought it was in fact a decent watch and I was rather curious to see this new reboot with an even younger Jack Ryan. Well, eventually, I was really amazed by how underwhelming the whole thing turned out to be. I mean, it’s not that the whole thing was poorly directed or the actors involved were awful, it’s just that the story barely worked in my opinion. In fact, if you would take all the scenes separately from each other, they were usually decent but, together, it was frankly quite a mess. For example, in the introduction, we get to see how Jack Ryan got badly injured, especially his back, during the war in Afghanistan. They really took their time to show how messed up he was, how difficult it was for him to walk again which was fine. However, during the 2nd half of the movie, you get to see the guy jumping around, doing some very physical stunts and fighting some bad guys along the way which was also fine on its own but it really clashed with what was displayed at the beginning. Then, you had also the whole relationship with his girlfriend which brought some issues. To start with, Keira Knightley was pretty weak here but, above all, they didn’t really know what to do with her character. Basically, they wanted her to be more than the typical girlfriend who doesn’t do anything but wait for the hero to come back so they tried to include her in the action but it was once again terribly awkward. Indeed, completely at random, she shows up in Moscow while Ryan is on mission, then, the only thing he can come up with is confess that he is a CIA agent and, then, 5 minutes later(!), she becomes involved in his mission. I could go on and on but it is just clear that it was a rather weak story, or at least, that it was really poorly written. To conclude, even though it sounded at first like a promising movie, the whole thing turned out to be terribly disappointing and I don’t think it is really worth a look. 



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Added by johanlefourbe
8 years ago on 17 March 2016 08:32