2002 Directed by Phil Alden Robinson
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
Ben Affleck Morgan Freeman James Cromwell Ken Jenkins Liev Schreiber Bruce McGill John Beasley Philip Baker Hall Bridget Moynahan Ciarán Hinds Michel 'Gish' Abou-Samah Richard Marner Lee Garlington Alan Bates Josef Sommer Colm Feore Michael Byrne Ron Rifkin Sven-Ole Thorsen LisaGay Hamilton Constantine Gregory
Isabelle Guay Jeannine Oppewall Michele Laliberte John DeMeo Caroline Alder Martin Gendron Daniel R. Jennings Randall D. Wilkins
Mel's Cite du Cinema Paramount Mace Neufeld Productions MFP Munich Film Partners GmbH & Company I. Produktions KG S.O.A.F. Productions
La suma de todos los miedos, Vsichki strakhove, Jack Ryan 4 - A Soma de Todos os Medos, 恐惧的总和, Der Anschlag - The Sum of All Fears, Apolytos kindynos, Svi naši strahovi, Tsena strakha, Sum of All Fears, The (2002)
I just can't fathom being in the position where you have to choose between nuclear war and not nuclear war and even ever thinking "nuclear war." If you are sitting on the biggest, most destructive arsenal in the history of the world, and you've been attacked, and your reaction is to angrily demand to start the end of the world, I just cannot sympathize with you. That isn't being strong. That isn't being clever. That isn't being compassionate. That isn't being defensive, even. That's probably not even nihilism; it's worse. It's a level of arrogance and disdain for life that is utterly foreign to me.
As this film shows a bunch of serious, shaky-cammed white men harrumphing about nuclear holocaust,…
"When I asked for your advice, I didn't mean that you should actually speak."
The Sum of All Fears is an action movie without any fight scenes. The reason Jack Ryan has so much potential which is so difficult to realize on film is that he gives us an action hero with a desk job. Beyond the simple immediate intrigue of a such a contradictory premise, this has the significant benefit of forcing a genre which too easily gets caught up in its own destruction to focus on dialogue and drama. The problem is that these movies lack the inspiration and guidance to really break free from the trappings of every other action movie.
Honestly, this movie was so bland…
kind of alone as both a studio franchise thriller and a post-9/11 disaster movie (this was released only 9 months later) in that it forgoes conventional action movie car-chase/gunfight theatrics in favor of a lot of phone calls, with all parties involved trying to operate with the most reliable data they can obtain. cooler heads prevailing didn't stay fashionable as American heroism for very long but that doesn't prevent this from remaining weirdly timely today.
The message from this film is simple, fascists=bad, fascists with nuclear weapons=worse. For a film made in 2002, eight years after Clear And Present Danger came out, Jack Ryan is looking distinctly sprightlier than he did in 1994. Ben Affleck dons the Bat-Cape, no, sorry, wrong film, Affleck takes on the role of Ryan in his fledgling outing which is really a prequel to both of Ford's films in the role. I'd always thought this was the poor relation in terms of the Ryan films to date, that was until Kenneth Branagh shit the bed with Shadow Recruit, but on reflection this isn't as bland as I'd remembered.
Ben Affleck had a tough act to follow as Jack Ryan. Baldwin…
A worst case scenario situation in regards to global terrorism that is followed through the eyes of a desk jockey CIA analyst. While Jack Ryan is not an action hero, this movie packs some great action set pieces.
Not without its flaws, this movie has some great tense geopolitical portrayals of national militaristic posturing. Really, Sum Of All Fears is let down by its acting and jingoism at key stages.
Huge fan of Hinds in this film as the Russian President, and makes me eager to check out the other Jack Ryan adaptations.
The message from this film is simple, fascists=bad, fascists with nuclear weapons=worse. For a film made in 2002, eight years after Clear And Present Danger came out, Jack Ryan is looking distinctly sprightlier than he did in 1994. Ben Affleck dons the Bat-Cape, no, sorry, wrong film, Affleck takes on the role of Ryan in his fledgling outing which is really a prequel to both of Ford's films in the role. I'd always thought this was the poor relation in terms of the Ryan films to date, that was until Kenneth Branagh shit the bed with Shadow Recruit, but on reflection this isn't as bland as I'd remembered.
Ben Affleck had a tough act to follow as Jack Ryan. Baldwin…
If I had to rank the actors who have played Jack Ryan, Ben Affleck probably wouldn't be last, actually.
Super thriller géopolitique qui confirme que nous avons besoin de leaders intelligents et empathiques.
The film gets better after a bland first hour. The ending has nods to the baptism scene in The Godfather. Only wish there was more of Morgan Freeman.
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