Shadow recruit earns a place at the top in my book, right up there with tom cruises mission impossible movies. Chris pine, keira knightley star alongside director kenneth branagh in jack ryan. It is the fifth film in the jack ryan series but is presented as a reboot that departs from the previous installments. Five films based on clancy novels featuring jack ryan have been produced.
Ultimately, the film is an adequate and enjoyable spy drama albeit one that will not deliver the same explosive action setpieces and. This 4k presentation of the jack ryan collection, including the hunt for red october, patriot games, clear and present danger, the sum of all fears and jack ryan. Shadow recruit earns a place at the top in my book, right up there with tom cruises. Genres action, drama directors kenneth branagh cast includes chris pine, kevin costner, keira knightley, kenneth branagh, colm feore, david paymer.
Chris pine stars as the eponymous cia agent in paramounts reboot of the tom clancy spycraft franchise. But the only thing special about it is the insane decision to make keira knightley do an american accent. The movie portraying the earliest incarnation of ryan fifth film chronologically is titled jack ryan. Shadow recruit offers a sleek, reasonably diverting reboot for a longdormant franchise. Chris pine, kevin costner, branagh, and keira knightley star in leading roles.
Shadow recruit based on the main character of those books, cia analyst jack ryan, played by star treks chris pine, debuted on yahoo thursday below. With john krasinski, wendell pierce, john hoogenakker, abbie cornish. Shadow recruit 2 discs includes digital copy bluraydvd 2014 at best buy. While working undercover on wall street, cia analyst jack ryan uncovers a terrorist plot to bring down the american economy. Ratings info contains moderate violence, injury detail and one use of strong language. Shadow recruit is based on tom clancys famous cia agent protagonist, and includes a good bit of violence, from fast and clean shots execution or sniper style to more closeup drownings and stabbings and fights to the death or on moving vehicles. Ryan is a marine shot down on a mission in afghanistan shortly after the world trade center attack. The plot is extremely typical spy stuff, russians and all.
Shadow recruit is a 2014 american action thriller spy film directed by kenneth branagh. Theres a little bit of romance mostly kissing and embracing in bed but mostly this is your typical. The film wasnt shot with imax cameras and takes very little advantage of the larger screen space or improved sound. Shadow recruit, a somewhat diverting origin story for tom clancys cia analyst. Shadow recruit and expresses deep regrets about the film. Images are all sharper, with bright highlights, and a genuine theaterlike look to all of them. Its also the fifth movie hinged on jack ryan, tom clancys most famous creation and the hero of many of his books. Shadow recruit spies on bond to replicate aspects and become rebourne. Shadow recruit 2014 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. This was exciting but the underlying plot makes no sense. Shadow recruit 2014 kevin costner and chris pine in. Shadow recruit crossover peter sullivanjack ryan jackcia. Shadow recruit opens, with the first of two unnecessary prologues, on september 11, 2001 with economics student, jack ryan chris pine, literally and figuratively jolted awake after learning of the twin towers attack. Shadow recruit based on the character jack ryan created by novelist tom clancy.
On the face of things, a studio reboot of the late writer tom clancys jack ryan character, a sort of american james bond for the neoconfamily values set, seems like an opportunistic and banal idea. Shadow recruit chris pine is shrewdly cast as tom clancys ciaanalyst hero, even if this franchise reboot is a fairly routine assignment. Jack ryan sequel not likely to happen says chris pine. I like a nice longish book, and being a series is even nicer. Shadow recruit chris pine kevin costner kenneth branagh 2014 young jack ryan chris pine goes from being a cia analyst to a spy after he uncovers a russian plot to crash the u. You may occasionally receive promotional content from. Such is the case with shadow recruit, which opens with jack ryan chris pine. Adam cozad, david koepp, tom clancy based on characters created by.
It doesnt reinvent the actionthriller wheel, but jack ryan. He immediately enlists in the marines in order to serve in afghanistan, but his helicopter is tragically hit in a. The first four films feature the same dolby truehd soundtracks heard on their bluray counterparts while jack ryan. Shadow recruit is the fifth film in the movie series, and pine is the fourth actor to play the role on the big screen, following alec baldwin in. Jacks in the midst of intense physical therapy when a naval officer who secretly works for the cia secretly recruits him to investigate the financial dealings of terrorist groups. Adjusting for inflation, this is the cheapestlooking ryan movie. Shadow recruit 2014105 minaction, drama, thriller17 jan 20146. Jack ryan is a 20 action drama thriller film written by tom clancy, adam cozad, david koepp, anthony peckham, steven zaillian and directed by kenneth brana. Each jack ryan movie departed from the clancy book on which it was based to some degree. Although a new objectbased audio option would have been a welcomed upgrade, each lossless mix nonetheless delivers an excellent and very satisfying aural experience that nicely matches the visuals. Shadow recruit, however, is the first ryan picture that isnt based on a clancy book. An upandcoming cia analyst, jack ryan, is thrust into a dangerous field assignment as he uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit.
Jack ryan is back on the big screen this weekend with chris pine suiting up as the tom clancycreated hero in jack ryan. A few weeks ago, i wrote about the excellent paramount releases of the first five mission. Shadow recruit earns a place at the top in my book, right up there with tom cruise s mission impossible movies. Jack ryan movies released on 4k bluray tvstreaming. Dr high production values and an absence of melodrama ensure jack ryan. Shadow recruit kicks off with a series of episodic scenes that. Cia analyst jack ryan chris pine uncovers evidence of a russian conspiracy.
Shadow recruit with a cynical eye, and youll glimpse evidence that studio confidence might have waned. Pine takes on the role that has been played before by alec baldwin, harrison ford and ben affleck. A film franchise that suddenly, after the sum of all fears, became dormant for over a decade. With chris pine, kevin costner, keira knightley, kenneth branagh. Tom clancy reheats the cold war from the grave in jack ryan. The authoritative record of nprs programming is the audio record. The film features the fictional character jack ryan created by author tom clancy. The action scenes are exciting, and between kenneth branaghs menacing russian bad guy tactics and kevin costners air of mystery, the tension keeps you hooked throughout. Shadow recruit, starring chris pine, keira knightley, kevin costner, kenneth branagh. Shadow recruit is essentially about both of these quandaries as it pertains to the mythos of becoming masculine in a post911 america. The actor says there wont be a sequel to jack ryan. The book was written into a screenplay, which debuted in 1990. Shadow recruit 2 discs includes digital copy bluray.
Paramount continued the trend last week with the issue of a box set of 4k releases of the five jack ryan films, coinciding with this weeks premiere of. The new ryan film is planned as an origin story, not derived from clancys novels and ultimately featuring an earlier point in his career. Shadow recruit by chris pine, keira knightley, kevin. The jack ryan 5film collection uhd 4k is a box set that is worth splurging on and if you have a tom clancyjack ryan fan in your life i suggest you buy two sets one for yourself and one to give. Shadow recruit korea steelbook bluray limited edition 2014 3 jack ryan. Shadow recruit comes with the same excellent dtshd ma track. Shadow recruit, all look better than they ever have. Shadow recruit is an action packed, suspense thriller about a cia financial analyst who reluctantly gets drawn into an international web of espionage where the requisite bad guys are attempting to collapse the world economybut mainly destroy the u. After recovering from a post911 war wound, economist jack ryan is recruited by the cia to keep a covert eye on sinister financial transactions. After killing a drivercumassassin just over a third of the way through the film, ryan chris pine is handed a pistol by mentor thomas harper kevin costner and told, youre not just an. Jack ryan first appeared in the hunt for red october in 1984.
The movie was rather predictable at times, but i must say it had a. The dis give him a really hard time, they get bear to fight him, bear loses and the dis go after bear. The dual purpose of henley associates does make sense and is a good foundation for jack jr. Clancys series of intense novels involving cia analyst turned operative jack ryan have had several adaptations in the past. Pine stars in the title role, becoming the fourth actor to play. Shadow recruit is also playing as a 2d imax experience and theres absolutely no reason to spend extra money on a premium ticket.
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