The Sum of All Fears review
The Sum of All Fears
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 2hr 4min
Starring: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Bridget Moynahan, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates
Personal Rating Rating: 4/5
A neo-Nazi organization, which put their hands on a nuclear bomb dating back to the Yom Kippur War, began to use it to start a war between the United States and Russia, weakened by the recent death of its chairman. The young Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck), a specialist in political recently hired by the CIA are going to find themselves at the heart of the storm…
Despite the sum of all its inconsistencies and clichés, in this 2002 thriller directed by Phil Alden Robinson can be seen, particularly through its spectacular staging and distribution very ingenious (Liev Shreiber formidable, spy field). Huge success at the American box office, The Sum of All Fears, free adaptation of a political thriller fiction by John Clancy published in 1991, reveals an agent Jack Ryan and starting younger than in The Hunt for Red October where it is embodied by Alec Baldwin and games of war or immediate danger with Harrison Ford. If the side falot and “first class” Ben Affleck can grate, however, the actor manages to breathe fresh unexpected deal with veterans Morgan Freeman, Alan Bates and James Cromwell. The director Phil Alden Robinson (he has until the end of a dream, CSI and, more recently, a few episodes of the TV series Band Of Brothers) signed here a film efficient but without much originality.
