By Ashley Lee Chris Pine is the latest actor to try his hand at the Tom Clancy character in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, following in the footsteps of Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck in ...

We'll see. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is a stunningly generic and bland would-be thriller. It has no real reason to exist other than its alleged value as a brand name character. Despite a valiant ...

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit provides a capable enough story for about an hour, looks sharp, has a likeable lead actor and supporting cast who do their best with the material, and a director who for ...

Jack Ryan's story was given a long-awaited on-screen origin story in 2014's Shadow Recruit. Beginning with the hero in college as he witnesses the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it follows him as he's ...

Minor spoilers for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit follow. In October 2009, news broke that Paramount Pictures would reboot Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series (which included The Hunt for Red October ...

In “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” we learn that Greenwich Village’s lefty haven Film Forum is the favorite place in town for CIA agents to swap files, which is as I always suspected.

In this week’s new releases, Chris Pine stars in “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” and Egyptian filmmaker Jehane Noujaim's "The Square" provides insight into the 2011 uprising in Cairo's Tahir ...

By Todd McCarthy Tom Clancy re-heats the Cold War from the grave in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, a streamlined reboot of a 1990s-rooted Paramount franchise in which the United States is saved from ...

During the 100 minutes in which Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit was bringing embarrassment to itself and the state of cinema, I took the opportunity to make up an original composition in my head.

And the character we get in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is not the complete antithesis of his literary namesake. There's not much to say about the story. The Russians want to send America into the ...

Going into “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” I had a free mind with nothing to compare the film to. What I can say is this: “Shadow Recruit” is an extremely effective espionage thriller that ...