Predictable and a poor production all together. The characters behave improbable and the story could do with a reality check.. In what country are medical personnel allowed to wear long sleeves? Unhygienic!

Not much to say about this episode in the franchise. Where "The Hunt For Red October" was suspenseful and well thought out, this one is rather boring. Chris Pine is neither Alec Baldwin nor Harrison Ford. The performance is a pedestrian one by a generically handsome young actor. The story begins with an ill-done action sequence in which Marine Pine is involved and horribly injured in a helicopter crash, just so we don't lose the action crowd right off the bat. He's recruited by the CIA and spies on some rogue Russians who want to obliterate the United States out of revenge for our having taken part in their defeat in Afghanistan. It would be nice if someone helped us out of our involvement now, after a decade and a half. The last third of the movie will be appreciated by any fans of the James Bond movies.

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit tries to reboot the series once more with a different actor and this time we see Chris Pine as Jack Ryan who does a nice job with the material that was given to him as for Kevin Costner and Keira Knightley they also did a great job which brings me to the problem of the film which is the actor and director Kenneth Branagh who seems to do a much better job behind the camera than in front of it because the film has some pretty good action sequences and suspenseful thriller moments unfortunately Branagh's villain Viktor is easily forgettable and the way he finally gets killed it's pretty stupid. In the end Shadow Recruit is a very enjoyable Action Thriller with some pretty good action here and there and some spy stuff for the rest of the film but the villain could be re-casted in my opinion and that's why i'll give Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit an 9/10

What Jack Ryan suffered most from, was a script that wasn't smart enough, to out-smart the the villains, pretty well thought out plan. The villain's plan is an "8" so to speak, but the hero's counter attack, is a 5... That compromises the films' integrity, logic and enjoyment.Jack Ryan couldn't live up to what I imagine was a plan roughly a decade in the making by Viktor Cherevin, but that probability wasn't portrayed too well either.All Kenneth Branagh did, to make Jack appear to be the smarter adversary, was him constantly making Jack inexplicably figure out Viktor's moves. Truth be told, given this particular story, Viktor had to win, but of course, he had to lose because of, because.Then there are all those badly edited scenes, so much so that, you can feel that, there is probably a good extra hour of footage that we'll never see, because it perhaps, was decidedly badly handled or it was directed into the ground and even more unimaginative. The final scene being the worst. The action is lack luster, the suspense is thrown to the wayside and it's end... Huh. Honestly,this is a movie, where if the villain won, it would've been so much more interesting, than Jack jumping out of a van, and then... Nothing exciting.Clearly it was meant to be a series... Sadly, it was seriesly (seriously), "non compliant, officer".When it started, it was lingering on 6. Then Mr Branagh engaged, enough to bring it to a 7... But then, somewhere, somehow, it plummeted.