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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Shadow Recruit isn’t nearly as smooth a reboot as Star Trek. Still, a solid-enough foundation has been laid, and pieces exist to keep Paramount and Pine in the Jack Ryan business for the immedia ...

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 ...

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 ...

Going into "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" I had a free mind with nothing to compare the film to. What I can say is this: "Shadow Recruit" is an extremely effective espionage thriller that will keep ...