The Sum of All Fears
2002
**½
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates
Tom Clancy's CIA agent Jack Ryan is back, and thanks to recasting he is about 30 years younger than the last time we saw him in A Clear and Present Danger. Meanwhile, a group of Neo-Nazis manipulate USA and Russia into war against each other by blowing up a nuclear bomb on the US soil. The film is sufficiently entertaining and suspenseful, but after 9/11 its view of the world seems hopelessly outdated and its plot as a whole cannot bear closer examination (what happened to the fallout?).
