Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Does ANYBODY want to see yet another CIA/terrorism movie? Is that the only subject men know how to write about? We have had ENOUGH, but saw THIS movie because of Chris Pine. It turns out Kenneth Branagh’s script was better than most, and Chris’s character was earnest and likeable – he wasn’t a know-it-all. But Keira Knightley, as the obligatory “girlfriend,” gets on our nerves. She’s not believable as an American girl. Is it her English teeth? Or superior attitude? Chris and Keira were a bad match. Branagh wrote himself a juicy role as a Hitler-like Russian madman – kinda fun- but it’s not going to help international relations… (Above, Chris and Keira look like two wax mannequins)

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