Thursday 7 August 2008

The Sum of All Fears

The biggest mystery in The Sum of All Fears is not how terrorists handle to smuggle a nuclear bomb into downtown Baltimore. Rather, it's how CIA operative Jack Ryan, formerly played by Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford, has suddenly become 30 long time younger and has turned into a junior broker at the CIA with only a few months of live. In the hands of Ben Affleck, Ryan is no thirster the overlooking veteran he once was in films like Patriot Games. Now he's little more than a arrhythmic teenager with a hot girlfriend and a chip shot on his shoulder.


I won't try to explain the metamorphosis of Ryan because it's never mentioned in the moving-picture show (and no, it's non a prequel; the film takes