The Sum of All Fears (2002)

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   kaffy

   I particularly enjoyed the part where the fears were all summed. 11 years 3 months ago
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   patato

   Watch Dr. Strangelove and forget this. 12 years 1 month ago
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   Siskoid

   don't know what keeps drawing me to Jack Ryan films, considering The Hunt for Red October is the only one I don't have problems with. The one I've been holding off on is The Sum of All Fears, but I finally pulled that band-aid off. It's much better than I thought it would be, especially the first act, and has a killer cast. Ben Affleck's Jack Ryan is a bit of a cipher, to be honest, but the plot about a lost nuke and a conspiracy to use it to start WWIII is rich and interesting. And then, spoilers, the nuke goes off on American soil, and the film becomes harder and harder to take seriously. We've basically got a hero running around an atomic wasteland unharmed here! But more than that, it means the illusion of Jack Ryan's realistic world of global politics is broken - one wonders how this would have changed the world had Affleck's rookie Ryan gone on to helm a franchise - and the last scene tonally goes against the grain and feels all wrong. It leaves us with a bad taste in our mouths, especially post-9/11 (the film came out in 2002), and loses all the good will it had accumulated. I think I still like it better than the Harrison Ford ones though. 7 years 8 months ago

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