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Fri, 01-31-2014, 12:32 PM
#39
I know I'll get flak since it's a current release, but who cares. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is a pretty good movie and deserves more attention than it's getting at the box office right now. It's not really anything like what you see in the trailer where it's all "we all have our secrets" and "not everyone is who you think they are." It's actually a pretty straight-forward origin story for the Ryan character that stars later in the Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games. If you know anything about those movies (or books on which they are based) then that should tell you what this movie and its characters is about, to a T. Definitely worth watching if you're into spy action movies.
The only complaint is that (as with most Hollywood work) the main character is misused (out of character) just to give him more screen time. Ryan has too many action scenes considering he's an analyst, not a field operative.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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