Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

[Edgy MD]

Sure a lot of actor get themselves locked into an action franchise and wax about how they're above it all, but the steady paycheck allows them to do Ibsen or something, but Chris Pine is taking a page out of Harrison Ford's book and turning that paradigm on its ear. Not content to merely be the linchpin of the red hot Star Trek franchise, he's now the fourth Jack Ryan, in the latest reboot of a series that has been trying to gain some traction for 24 years.

Jack's a wounded Afghanistan War vet who gets recruited into the CIA by James Earl Jones, played by Kevin Costner, to go to Wall Street and look for financial irregularities that might indicate terrorist funding. That's it. He's an analyst. But when he stumbles over the big kahuna, the financial nexus of big-time terror action, he quickly gets... operationalized. Seriously operationalized. And it's a good thing he's got Keira Knightley along as his physical therapist/doctor/girlfriend/American-who-inexplciably-talks-British, because he goes from a seriously wounded guy barely able to walk to a guy who gets up and just wipes his nose after a lot of bad falls. Really bad falls!

Kenneth Brannagh directs and villianizes.

[fimg=450]http://static.squarespace.com/static/51b3dc8ee4b051b96ceb10de/t/52b86f63e4b0675cb7ea3994/1387818853426/tv-spot-for-jack-ryan-shadow-recruit.jpg[/fimg]