The Sum of all Fears (2002)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 124m
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber
Synopsis:
A neo-Nazi attempts to set the US and Russia at loggerheads in the hope that they will annihilate each other. He almost succeeds, but for one CIA operative's special knowledge of the Russian premier and detective work in tracing the activities of three missing Soviet nuclear scientists.
Review:
The early adventures of Clancy favourite, Jack Ryan, with a new star in the efficient but uncharismatic Affleck. Paradoxically the setting appears to be more contemporary than some of the previous outings, but never mind. It resurrects the spectre of atomic bombs on American soil last seen handled realistically in Fail Safe (1964) and it has an agreeably unsensationalist angle on CIA top brass and presidential aides (the former are anything but stupid, the latter far from hotheaded). It is equally resolutely pro-conservative, post 9/11 entertainment in as much as it has a visible, destructible enemy rather than a vague, paranoid conspiracy.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 124m
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber
Synopsis:
A neo-Nazi attempts to set the US and Russia at loggerheads in the hope that they will annihilate each other. He almost succeeds, but for one CIA operative's special knowledge of the Russian premier and detective work in tracing the activities of three missing Soviet nuclear scientists.
Review:
The early adventures of Clancy favourite, Jack Ryan, with a new star in the efficient but uncharismatic Affleck. Paradoxically the setting appears to be more contemporary than some of the previous outings, but never mind. It resurrects the spectre of atomic bombs on American soil last seen handled realistically in Fail Safe (1964) and it has an agreeably unsensationalist angle on CIA top brass and presidential aides (the former are anything but stupid, the latter far from hotheaded). It is equally resolutely pro-conservative, post 9/11 entertainment in as much as it has a visible, destructible enemy rather than a vague, paranoid conspiracy.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 124m
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber
Synopsis:
A neo-Nazi attempts to set the US and Russia at loggerheads in the hope that they will annihilate each other. He almost succeeds, but for one CIA operative's special knowledge of the Russian premier and detective work in tracing the activities of three missing Soviet nuclear scientists.
Review:
The early adventures of Clancy favourite, Jack Ryan, with a new star in the efficient but uncharismatic Affleck. Paradoxically the setting appears to be more contemporary than some of the previous outings, but never mind. It resurrects the spectre of atomic bombs on American soil last seen handled realistically in Fail Safe (1964) and it has an agreeably unsensationalist angle on CIA top brass and presidential aides (the former are anything but stupid, the latter far from hotheaded). It is equally resolutely pro-conservative, post 9/11 entertainment in as much as it has a visible, destructible enemy rather than a vague, paranoid conspiracy.