With Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Paramount pictures is trying to reboot the character for a second time, after 2002’s Sum of All Fears starring Ben Affleck.

There is a mission in “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” and it is impossible. It would not be difficult to believe the “Jack Ryan” script started as a “Mission: Impossible” script ...

VideoBack in 1990, we were introduced to Jack Ryan via the big-screen adaptation of Tom Clancy's best seller Cold War spy novel The Hunt For Red October. While the lead actor changed several times ...

After more than a decade of desk duty, Tom Clancy's famed fictional CIA agent is back on the big screen Friday in "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit."Ryan's been played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and ...

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit The final scene introduced us to Keira Knightley's Cathy, who is still just Ryan's girlfriend despite previous attempts to take the relationship to the next level.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is a stunningly generic and bland would-be thriller. It has no real reason to exist other than its alleged value as a brand name character.

Tom Clancy re-heats the Cold War from the grave in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, a streamlined reboot of a 1990s-rooted Paramount franchise in which the United States is saved from another 9/11-sized ...

Chris Pine is the latest actor to try his hand at the Tom Clancy character in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, following in the footsteps of Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck in what also ...

Caveat Spectator. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit may be the sort of action movie that plays a little better for viewers with a strong aversion to sexual content or language than everyone else, simply ...

Jack Ryan's story was given a long-awaited on-screen origin story in 2014's Shadow Recruit. Beginning with the hero in college as he witnesses the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it follows him as he's ...

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit starts out on relatively solid footing. It becomes clear that the goal is to reboot the entire mythology of the Jack Ryan series, to give him a new actor in Chris Pine, a ...

This week at the multiplex, we've got a super spy ("Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit," starring Chris Pine and Keira Knightley), some burglarizing rodents ("The Nut Job," with voice performances by Will ...