Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Michael

I never followed the Jack Ryan series. But I can imagine the other film adaptations were better than this Bourne-lite modern-day origin story. We're not in the cold war anymore. And this story feels just a little hammy in a modern day setting. Add to that Kenneth Branagh's moustache twirling evil Russian villain and you have a film that feels like it was an outline for a 70's Bond film that was never fleshed out enough to actually go into production.

It's shiny, well put together. The tech credits are all fine, it looks like a movie, but the experience was pretty hollow.