2014 · action · drama · thriller
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Directed by Kenneth Branagh1h 45m2014
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
Our read: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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