Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA 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

2 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 CIA 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 CIA 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, but ...

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Plot Keywords:

russian | marine | covert analyst | stock market | spy | 

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Taglines:

Trust No One

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and intense action, and brief strong language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official Twitter

Country:

USA Russia

Language:

English Russian

Release Date:

17 January 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Dubai

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

$60,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$17,200,000, 19 January 2014, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$50,577,412

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$135,511,030

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

Did You Know?

Trivia

The third Paramount movie by Kenneth Branagh. The first was Dead Again (1991) which he directed and appeared in, and the second being Thor (2011) which he directed.

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Goofs

When Ryan is in the hospital room at the end of the movie and Cathy comes in to see him, the electrical outlets are 220, not 110, which shows it was filmed in Europe.

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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 Hunt for Red October (1990)

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Soundtracks

Faith of Our Fathers
Music composed by Patrick Doyle
Text by Frederick Faber and James G. Walton
Translated by Ekaterina Bogomolova

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.