Rating: PG13
Genre:
Thriller
Release Date: 07/29/2008
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/Por
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Run Time: 123 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
The successful franchise of
Paramount motion pictures based on novelist
Tom Clancy's
techno-thrillers featuring heroic CIA intelligence analyst
Jack Ryan stages a much-publicized "do-over" with this
action-adventure that recasts the character of
Ryan as a rookie to the complex game of geopolitical warfare.
Ben Affleck takes the reins from
Harrison Ford as
Ryan, a greenhorn CIA historian and analyst who finds himself thrust front and center into the spy community's spotlight when
Nemerov (
Ciaran Hinds), a Russian politician on whom
Ryan is an expert, suddenly becomes the leader of the former Soviet Union upon the current president's unexpected demise. Attached to the director of the CIA,
Cabot (
Morgan Freeman),
Ryan insists -- contrary to the opinions of many high-ranking White House officials -- that
Nemerov is not a warmonger. Meanwhile, a cadre of neo-fascists, led by
Dressler (
Alan Bates), plots the detonation at the Super Bowl in Baltimore, MD, of a nuclear device recovered from a long-ago Israeli fighter jet crash, a terrorist incident they intend to spark a war between the super powers, leaving them to conquer the world in the conflict's post-apocalyptic vacuum.
The Sum of All Fears co-stars
James Cromwell,
Bridget Moynahan, and
Liev Schreiber as covert operative
John Clark, a character central to another series of
Clancy's best-selling tomes.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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