The Sum Of All 恐れるs (Cert 12)

Thriller writer Tom Clancy's 中央情報局 秘かに調査する hero Jack Ryan is getting younger as 急速な／放蕩な as his 陰謀（を企てる）s are growing creakier.

Ryan was first played by Alec Baldwin as around 30 in The 追跡（する） For Red October, and then as a middle-老年の family man by Harrison Ford in 愛国者 Games and （疑いを）晴らす And 現在の Danger.

Here, he's played by Ben Affleck as a freshfaced, all-American lad saving the world in the 現在の day, and blow me if he hasn't regressed to his 20s and trying to decide whether to commit to the young woman he was married to in the previous movies.

At this 率, it won't be long before we get to see Haley Joel Osment agonising over his first prom date in between 試みる／企てるs to assassinate Saddam Hussein.

Clancy's best-selling 1991 novel was a long but gripping one about Islamic テロリストs getting 持つ／拘留する of a 核の 爆弾 and blowing up thousands of innocent 非軍事のs in an American football stadium, in an 成果／努力 to 停止（させる） the Middle Eastern peace 過程. After September 11, it could hardly have been more topical.

Unfortunately, political correctness and the 願望（する） not to antagonise 可能性のある Arab markets has led to the 初めの, 高度に plausible villains 存在 jettisoned.

Instead, we have a preposterous collection of 古代の Nazis, led by Alan Bates 引用するing the poetical 作品 of Pete Townshend in his best 'Ve have vays of making you 叫び声をあげる for mercy' accent.

The 老年の Who fans （罪などを）犯す the 集まり 殺人 of U.S. 非軍事のs, on the 疑わしい basis that this will lead to a world war between America and Russia, その結果 Who fans will 明らかに 相続する the Earth.

If you can swallow that, you may be able to 抽出する more enjoyment than I could from this movie, though I would have to 警告する you that until the obliteration of Baltimore the pace is mighty slow, and Ben Affleck's romantic interludes with his soon-to-be-wife are almost as excruciating as the ones he （打撃，刑罰などを）与えるd on us in Pea rl Harbor.

And, as we come up to the 周年記念日 of September 11, I'm not 全く 納得させるd that the 核兵器ing of an American city for entertainment 目的s is 完全に in the best of taste.

On the 加える 味方する of the equation, there's a typically dignified, quizzical 業績／成果 by Morgan Freeman as Jack Ryan's 中央情報局 boss, and に向かって the end, director Phil Alden Robinson 達成するs the same 確信して, if rather 匿名の／不明の, competence that he 論証するd on Sneakers.

But he's not the creative 軍隊 he was on Field Of Dreams, and with this 構成要素 no one will be surprised.

Variations on this 陰謀（を企てる） have been used far too many times before, in movies such as The Peacemaker and Tomorrow Never Dies, both of which were more fun.

Clancy's 調書をとる／予約するs are successful because he 申し込む／申し出s a plausible 見解（をとる） of how the 中央情報局 operates in the modern world. But the politics of this film have so little to do with reality that the 中央情報局's 試みる／企てるs to 対処する with them look utterly phoney.

Clancy has only himself to 非難する - he was (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 生産者 - and he should have had more 約束 in his 初めの novel.

Before the debacle of Pearl Harbor the movie, the casting of Ben Affleck might have looked a 有望な idea. But he turns Jack Ryan into a lanternjawed bore; and the rejuvenation of Ryan 除去するs most of the depths that make him 利益／興味ing.

I didn't believe for a moment in these villains or their 陰謀（を企てる）. And 率直に, when the end of the world's at 火刑／賭ける, I really think you should be made to feel at least mildly anxious.

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