Chris Pine

Keira Knightley

Kevin Costner

Kenneth Branagh

Lenn Kudrjawizki

Colm Feore

Gemma Chan

Alec Utgoff

Peter Andersson

Nonso Anozie

Aleksandar Aleksiev

Deborah Rosan

Price Lindsey

Celine Jedidi

Ricky Rajpal

Karen David

David Paymer

David Hayman

Amy J. Kim

Bogdan Kominowski

Maggie Daniels

Annika Pergament

Seth Ayott

Andrew Byron

Derek Lea

Andy Butcher

Pat Kiernan

Ian Bonar

Elena Velikanova

Lloyd Bass

Santino Fontana

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Matt Rippy

Kieron Jecchinis

William Meredith

Leonard Redlich

Angus Wright

Emmanuel Imani

Tom Clancy

Dana Goldberg

Tommy Harper

Adam Cozad

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Mace Neufeld

David Koepp

Alexander Dostal

David Ready

Paula Price

Carol Hemming

Tracey Wells

Ian Tapp

Soleil Jackson

Renata Gilbert

Derek Trigg

Christopher Fulton

Charmaine Fuller

Adenike Wright

Mike Dowson

Glen Gathard

Peter Burgis

Jeremy Woodhead

Jason Swanscott

Shawnna Thibodeau

David Barron

Deborah Aquila

Tricia Wood

Dean Clegg

Judy Farr

Jill Taylor

Lucinda Syson

Charlotte Finlay

Andrew Laws

Mark Vahradian

Elaine Grainger

Alena Garetovskaya

Neal Callow

Aja Frary

Aaron Vexler

Patrick Jonsson

Peter Epstein

Martin Walsh

Jodi Michelle Pynn

Haris Zambarloukos

Larry D. Horricks

Zoe Morgan

Stuart Kearns

Martha Pinson

Matt Johnson

Blaise Corrigan

Vic Armstrong

Patrick Doyle

Chris Cenatiempo

Jill Brown

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

di Bonaventura Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Mace Neufeld Productions

Buckaroo Entertainment

Skydance Media

Russia

United States of America

English

Pусский

sniper

new york city

london, england

central intelligence agency (cia)

corruption

based on novel or book

explosive

rehabilitation

murder

conspiracy

terrorism

surveillance

ex-marine

jack ryan

u.s. marine

9/11

undercover operation

fiancé fiancée relationship

ex military

moscow, russia

political thriller

helicopter crash

intelligence service

cia analyst

intelligence analyst

Chris Pine does a really good job, brings his A-Game.

Keira Knightley, well, OK, she is pretty under-rated and ALWAYS seems to bring her A-Game even to the worst possible movies.... and she brought her A-Game again.

And Kevin Costner, well he can be off the mark every now and again, but he seemed to try his best to make this movie good.

And that is why it's watchable. Pine, Knightley, and Costner all bring their best games to this film and do their absolute best to make Shadow Recruit a good movie....

.... and this is despite the HORRIBLE SCRIPT and mostly incompetent direction. Branagh has always been a better actor than he ever was a director, and when it comes to a movie that needs to be taunt and stressful.... they needed someone else.

But then, they also needed a script that could build tension and a director that can work with it, not just do the same trick he failed to execute properly with Frankenstein.

So what you have here are three actors conspiring to save a movie... and unfortunately you need more than three actors doing their absolute best to save a film from a poor script and a poor director.

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Chris Pine takes on the mantle of the eponymous US intelligence officer who survives an helicopter crash in the Mediterranean Sea only to be recruited by "Harper" (Kevin Costner) into the community at Langley where he is to investigate dodgy financial activities. It's this task that alerts him to the dubious antics of "Cherevin" (Kenneth Branagh) who seems to be mis-declaring his accounts and syphoning off large sums. Why? Well the conspiracy theorists readily believe his suggestion that this is all part of a not very cunning plan to destabilise the dollar and bankrupt his United States. "Ryan" is to be sent to Moscow but that poses two problems. He's just an analyst and reluctant to take to the field, and his rather possessive girlfriend "Cathy" (Keira Knightley) suspects that he's at it! Anyway, off he goes into the lion's den and before he can get to the bottom of things, she makes an annoying surprise visit and soon both are on the hit list of the nasty Russian and his seemingly inexhaustible army of goons who couldn't hit the Kremlin with an Howitzer. Pine does fine here and despite his thick accent, so does Branagh - but Costner is pretty flat and Knightley is just plain terrible. She manages to create a character that just irritates from start to finish as the rest of the story lurches from one far-fetched scenario to another. The denouement is quickly paced but messy and somehow I felt disappointed by the sheer simplicity and sloppily procedural nature of the whole thing. Adequate, but not a patch on the Harrison Ford outings.

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit( 2014)

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A review by GenerationofSwine

Written by GenerationofSwine on Wed Jan 11 2023

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