Yet, for all its gusto, Without Remorse makes the same mistakes as the last several Clancy adaptations - namely Phil Alden Robinson’s toothless The Sum of All Fears (2002), Kenneth Branagh’s by-the-numbers Bourne clone Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), and Amazon’s superbly cast but poorly realized Jack Ryan series starring John Krasinski - and trades brains for brawn in an attempt to win over Marvel-induced audiences. RELATED: The Tomorrow War Teaser Sees Chris Pratt Fighting a New Kind of Alien Still, writers Taylor Sheridan and Will Staples make mincemeat of the text in favor of a straightforward, predictable revenge thriller that bears only a passing resemblance to the source material.Įven so, the film satisfies as a suspenseful yarn packed with a handful of Sicario-styled action beats, including a tense bit in which our hero must navigate a fallen aircraft before it sinks to the bottom of the ocean and a climactic standoff in one of those ready-made, abandoned buildings in the middle of Russia perfectly suited for an explosive shootout. Obviously, there was no way to fully adapt Clancy’s massive 630+ page book for the big screen. Jordan) on his quest to avenge the death of his wife, executed via a Russian gang with ties to one of those elaborate conspiracies centered around the threat of - what else? - all-out war. In the film, action shifts to modern-day and follows disgruntled Navy SEAL John Kelly (Michael B.

Tom Clancy fans rejoice! After nearly three decades, at long last, a worthy successor to the one-two-three punch of The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger finally emerges in the form of Stefano Sollima’s solid, though trite, Without Remorse.Ĭlick here to purchase Tom Clancy’s original novel!įirst thing’s first: this is not the book you read in 1993, the one that detailed famed Clancy hero John Clark’s rise from broken man to a badass, pimp killing, elite soldier in 1970s Baltimore. Directed by Stefano Sollima WITHOUT REMORSE REVIEW

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