Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

Jack Ryan, as a young covert C.I.A. analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

Director:

Kenneth Branagh

Writers:

Adam Cozad, David Koepp

Stars:

Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley

3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Chris Pine	...	Jack Ryan
Keira Knightley	...	Cathy Muller
Kevin Costner	...	Thomas Harper
Kenneth Branagh	...	Viktor Cherevin
Lenn Kudrjawizki	...	Constantin
Alec Utgoff	...	Aleksandr Borovsky
Peter Andersson	...	Dimitri Lemkov
Elena Velikanova	...	Katya
Nonso Anozie	...	Embee Deng
Seth Ayott	...	Teddy Hefferman
Colm Feore	...	Rob Behringer
Gemma Chan	...	Amy Chang
Aleksandar Aleksiev	...	Cherevin's Bodyguard
Andrew Byron	...	Cherevin's Bodyguard
Derek Lea	...	Cherevin's Bodyguard

Storyline

This new version of the saga of C.I.A. analyst Jack Ryan begins as Jack attends the London School of Economics. 9/11 happens. He subsequently enlists in the Marines, sustaining severe injuries when the chopper deploying him to Afghanistan is shot down. While in intense rehab, he grabs the attention of Harper, a man who works for the C.I.A., and who would like Jack to finish his studies, get a job on Wall Street, and seek out terrorist plots through their financial transactions. Ten years pass. Jack finds anomalies in the accounts of a Russian named Cherevin, and thinks he should go to Russia to check out what's going on. He's told not to tell anyone who he is, including his girlfriend Cathy, which makes her doubt him when she catches him in some lies. In Russia, Cherevin assigns someone to assist Jack, but when the two are alone, the man tries to kill Jack instead, so Jack kills him. Obviously, Cherevin is hiding something. Jack goes to meet him and says he'll bring his fiancée along,...

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Plot Keywords:

jack ryan character | cia | russian | marine | u.s. marine | 

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Taglines:

Trust No One

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

PG

Did You Know?

Trivia

Peter Andersson's first English language film.

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Goofs

Michigan neither issues nor requires front license plates.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Jack Ryan: Hey, what's going on?
Student: In there. It's on the news.

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Crazy Credits

The title of the film doesn't appear until 12th minutes into the movie.

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Connections

Follows The Sum of All Fears (2002)

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Soundtracks

Sorry, Wrong Number Prelude
Written by Franz Waxman
From the motion picture Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

User Reviews

Moderately Enjoyable To Watch

All in all, the story line, chronology, acting etc in this movie are okay, but too cliché as most scenes are predictable. Keira Knightley does not portray a natural chemistry in her role as a girlfriend or mission assistant. I find the awkwardness of her scenes has drowned the tension & intensiveness of the movie.

At a positive view, Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) did a pretty good job. His cool, humorous kind of charisma paid off in this movie. There were some scenes where I actually felt funny & LOL.

My initial vote for this movie was '5' & he is the reason why I added '1' more vote.

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

USA Russia

Language:

English Russian

Release Date:

17 January 2014 (Canada)

Also Known As:

Jack Ryan: Recrue dans l'ombre

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

$60,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$15,451,981, 19 January 2014

Gross USA:

$50,577,412

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$135,503,748

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures, Skydance Media, Di Bonaventura Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS Datasat Dolby Digital Dolby Surround 7.1

Color:

Color Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1