Have you seen the trailers and TV spots for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit? The ones that make it seem like Kevin Costner’s CIA agent might really be a double agent? Or that Keira Knightly might be someone more than just Mrs. Jack Ryan? Well don’t buy into the “Trust No One” ad machine, for Shadow Recruit, the fifth movie to feature Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character, is as straightforward as espionage thrillers come. In fact, everyone is who they say are from the start. No twists. No turns. The only real surprise is that the film, starring Chris Pine as the titular spy, isn’t based on one of Clancy’s novels like its predecessors (The Hunt For Red October, Clear and Present Danger) and is rather an original story reboot. And not just any reboot, it’s an origin story with clear intensions of setting up a 007-like franchise…
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