Jack Ryan: Shadow Agent - 01/02/2014
Jack Ryan, who is Jack Ryan?
Originally played by Alec Baldwin, then perfectly by Harrison Ford, then in a terrible film by Ben Affleck, and now in a new era by Chris Pine.
Based on the character designed by Tom Clancy, Jack Ryan is a Cold War CIA Agent. I have read a couple of these books, but mainly relate to Harrison's portrayal (same as Morgan Freeman's portrayal as Alex Cross).
Shadow Agent is a film that seems to build to one major moment, which was, I must admit, very good indeed. Shame about the other 95 mins!
After just finishing Season 7 of 24 with Clare, we decided to postpone this a day as watching it after that would just not compare. Unfortunately, leaving it a day still didn't matter. Shadow Recruit just didn't excite. There is so much Tom Clancy material to use, so why should a film based on the development on his character not work....
The film didn't seemed to blast over some parts that could have been really interesting and focus on poor characters and uninteresting story lines.
It seems like film makers are searching for the next Bourne, instead of doing something else that could work.
For me there is only one Jack, and that is Mr Bauer
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