5/17/2023 0 Comments Without Remorse by Tom ClancyVideo game adaptations like The Division and Elite Squad were roundly criticized for their pro-fascist narratives. As opposed to the previous films, The Sum of All Fears didn’t question America’s politically covert role in the world - instead, the movie praised it. By the mid-’90s, the series looked unstoppable at the box office.īut with 2002’s The Sum of All Fears, Ben Affleck’s turn in the franchise’s leading role, the tentpole came down. His frequent protagonist Jack Ryan nearly spawned an American James Bond franchise: Alec Baldwin played the CIA agent in the 1990 Cold War submarine thriller The Hunt for Red October, and Harrison Ford further burnished Ryan’s blockbuster bonafides when he took over in 1992’s Patriot Games and 1994’s Clear and Present Danger. Back in the 1990s, the movies adapted from Tom Clancy’s books used to be events.
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