An attempt to reboot the Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan thriller franchise with a new actor playing Ryan, Ben Affleck. The role had previously been played by Alec Baldwin and then Harrison Ford. Those films had been highly successful at the box office. However the studio did not want to continue to payout the large sums of cash Ford was asking for with each successive film.
The Sum Of All Fears was like one of those Spider man films. The studio pretended the first series never existed and just started the whole thing over with a different and cheaper actor. So in The Sum Of All Fears, Jack Ryan is no longer the deputy CIA director. This film takes him all the way back to being a desk bound intelligence analyst.
This film is watchable but a little lazy. The bad guys are the movies favorite villains the ex Nazis. They are attempting to start a new world order by tricking the United States and the Soviet Union into going to war with each other. This old standby of a plot has been used in just about every other James Bond film.
This is a perfectly acceptable B-flat thriller nothing special but watchable.
124 minutes, screenplay by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne.
124 minutes, screenplay by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne.
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