Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Based on the story of a CIA agent with a high intellect who gets an opportunity to work as a financial analyst. The movie shows how he takes down the terrorists and faces the difficulty of hiding this mission he has been recruited for.
1950, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1968, Canada
22 August 1958, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
11 November 1964, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
29 November 1982, London, England, UK
5 October 1984, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
April 18, 2016
(Director) Branagh doesn't reinvent the wheel here, but he does take the rims off a flashy 2014 Tesla and put them on a 1985 Camaro: a big, comfy muscle car asking only that you point it in the right direction and step on the gas.
April 14, 2016
A dull, vacant post-Cold War spy yarn that has nothing to say about anything.
April 23, 2015
The vulnerability of the Jack Ryan character is still present, something very important that keeps us rooting for him.
July 14, 2016
As an action-thriller, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is more or less competent. As an heir to the Jack Ryan mantle, however, it is less so.
January 21, 2014
This is the very definition of an OK thriller.
February 28, 2017
The main characters and the performances behind them are nicely pitched.
January 20, 2014
Director Kenneth Branagh knows how to invest the ridiculous with a sort of grandeur - Exhibit A: the surprisingly fun Thor - but Shadow Recruit is more straightforward in nature, so he can't get too fancy.
March 14, 2014
I'm aware that commercial and cultural forces require everything to be rebooted triennially with fresher, hotter stars. But this is the second time the Jack Ryan franchise has rejected a youth transplant.
June 21, 2016
Focal compositions and moody editing in the vein of Hitchcock help establish suspense and emotion without the need for excessive special effects or big-budget set pieces.
January 24, 2014
The dim star wattage in this fifth rehash is palpable from the start.
January 17, 2014
A pretty suspenseful, largely engaging, and hardly ever too-over-the-top spy thriller.
September 22, 2014
"Shadow Recruit" is fun in a minor, winter-season way.
