Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
A follow-up to Amazon's Jack Ryan series, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War pulls retired CIA analyst Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) back into action. While doing a favor for his old friend, Ryan will discover disturbing truths while hunting down a ghost from James Greer's (Wendell Pierce) past obsessed with returning to the morally reprehensible enhanced anti-terrorism measures post-9/11 which he believes were all that saved the world from destruction (and are still needed to keep the world safe today).
Honestly, I had little to no interest in sitting through another season of Jack Ryan (I don't believe I've even seen the final season and a half of the show). Despite it certainly being one of the lesser film adaptations of Tom Clancy's famous spy, 105 minutes is about how long I want to spend with this character and what will inevitably turn out to be somewhat ridiculous adventures punctuated with a fun action sequence or two. While not all that cinematic, it is a Prime streaming movie after all, there's likely enough here to keep your interest for under two hours.
It's almost exactly what I expected. Along with the returning Krasinski, Pierce, Michael Kelly, and Betty Gabriel, all falling back easily into their roles, we get Sienna Miller as an agent of MI6 and Max Beesley as the formerly decorated British soldier now firmly off the reservation causing the very terror attacks he once was charged with preventing. For those wanting a bit more of Krasinski's version of Jack Ryan, the film delivers just that (but not much more). Those in the mood for better Jack Ryan features, however, certainly have other options to choose from.
- Title: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
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