After more than a decade of desk duty, Tom Clancy's famed fictional CIA agent is back on the big screen Friday in "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit." Ryan's been played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Based on the character created by bestselling author Tom Clancy, “Jack Ryan” is a global action thriller set in the present day. This original story follow a young Jack (Chris Pine ...

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 ...