I was like: Oh sweet fuck, they’re rebooting Tom Clancy for the 85th time.<\/p>\n
Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and now Chris Pine.<\/p>\n
I was fully prepared to skip this one as it wasn’t even made from a Clancy novel.\u00a0 They were using the character Jack Ryan in a story they made up.\u00a0 Yawn.\u00a0 Then I saw that Kenneth Branagh was directing it.\u00a0 That changed EVERYTHING.<\/p>\n
He was in the movie as well, but that doesn’t mean shit.\u00a0 He has acted in Wild Wild West<\/em> and Harry Potter 2<\/em>.\u00a0 He’ll ACT in a piece of shit.\u00a0 But he doesn’t DIRECT pieces of shit. Thor<\/em> could easily have been an effeminate clusterfuck.\u00a0 He directed the shit out of that.\u00a0 I think Hamlet<\/em> is one of Shakespeare’s most cumbersome plays.\u00a0 With easily his worst female lead.\u00a0 However I LOVE Branagh’s film version.\u00a0 All 4 hours of it.<\/p>\n He has given us a pared down basic spy thriller.\u00a0 Nothing mind blowing, but a very tight thriller.<\/p>\n It’s actually kind of the plot of Debt of Honor<\/em>, or at least the financial attack part.\u00a0 Japan is traded out for Russia, and Branagh himself plays the villain.<\/p>\n Chris Pine plays Jack Ryan who is at a point in his life we’ve really only heard referenced in books.\u00a0 Although moved up in time.\u00a0 We see him as a marine, how he injured his back, how he met Cathy, and how he was recruited by the CIA.\u00a0 He is supposed to be an analyst.\u00a0 Well kind of, he’s a CIA plant in a Wall St trading house on the lookout for terrorism financing.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure the CIA isn’t allowed to have domestic operations but whatever.<\/p>\n So when Branagh’s evil Russian oligarch initiates his financial war, Jack is well placed to help.\u00a0 So spymaster Kevin Cotsner makes him go to Russia to investigate.<\/p>\n Fairly simple plot, very well executed.\u00a0 It’s no Tinker, Tailor<\/em> but it’ll do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was like: Oh sweet fuck, they’re rebooting Tom Clancy for the 85th time. Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and now Chris Pine. I was fully prepared to skip this one as it wasn’t even made from a Clancy … Continue reading