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D+ |
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B |
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Politically correct, boring, and Ben Affleck
by Kris H (movies profile)
Feb 8, 2008
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5 people found this review helpful
Folks, I recommend you take a pass on this movie as there is little to commend it. (1) Casting/acting -- Ben Affleck was a horrible choice for the role of Jack Ryan, not to mention his limited acting range (Morgan Freeman saves this movie from an F rating). Affleck works well in movies like Good Will Hunting, where he plays the not-so-smart-guy. In this movie we are supposed to believe that Affleck is correct 100% of the time, he is smarter than everyone else with 20 more years of experience, etc etc. The DVD featurette even raves about how great a casting decision Affleck was-- propaganda. James Cromwell as the president also seems miscast as well.
(2) The special effects aren't that special or dramatic. And why sugar-coat the dramatic images of a terrorist attack?
(3) The movie changes the original story line from an attack orchestrated by arab terrorists to one by neo-Nazis. This feels contrived and all-so-politically-correct. The Nazis are apparently the last group on earth that liberal Hollywood feels comfortable pinning a terrorist attack on. But have the Nazis committed any widespread terrorism since WWII? And Islamic extremists? |
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