Clear and Present Danger

2022 - 12 - 13

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Clear and Present Danger: Hollywood's best Jack Ryan adaptation ... (Stuff.co.nz)

REVIEW: With no disrespect to Baldwin, Pine, Affleck or Krasinski, none of them come even close to Harrison Ford's second outing as the CIA analyst.

It is also available to stream on Prime Video. Even TV’s current Jack Ryan, Krasinski has admitted his interpretation was inspired by Ford’s portrayal in Patriot Games and here. “There is no black-and-white, only right and wrong,” he barks at one point. Neither is Escobedo, who prepares a “warm reception” for Ryan, when he heads south and sort out the increasingly messy situation. It isn’t long before Ryan is tested when he discovers a “clear and present danger’ to US national security has been detected – and seemingly covertly dealt with. *

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