Jeff, you liked the movie, didn’t you?
My wife and I saw it last night and we did like it.
It is a reboot of Jack Ryan into the 2000s. It starts in 2001 on 911, when he is in college. He ends up joining the Marines and in that it remains true to the basics of his life as presented by Clancy back in the 80s. He joins the Marines. Gets injured in Afghanistan, and then gets recruited by the CIA.
The story of his first “mission,” is not something that was in the Clancy books, but that is okay. It’s a decent thriller. Not everything is perfect though.
My two bads were Ryan mentioning as he is being recruited that the CIA is not very well liked because of waterboarding and rendition. Well, most college aged kids were taught that, so it is not surprising, even though it was wrong, and it was those programs that netted us bin Laden.
Another was at the end of the movie in the wind up scene on how they finally get the Russian terrorist in the US. It was rushed. Went too fast. They could have extended the movie by 15 minutes and made that a lot better IMHO.
But it was still a decent flick if you are not looking for reasons not to like it IMHO.
IMHO, sort of a mix between a Bourne story and a mission impossible.
I would go see it again, and when it comes out as a digital download, I will have it on my iPad.
Anyhow, others may feel differently, but that is what I thought of it.