User Review

Overall, this is something I'd recommend if you have absolutely nothing to watch. Just because of the quality production, it's a fairly good movie. However, the plot itself lacks genuine believability and is a bit ridiculous at some points. First of all, this movie subtly paints anyone who leans politically toward the right wing spectrum as fascist by blatantly and obviously associated them with nazis (which is petty and ignorant to say the least). Now since this is perfectly normal from Hollywood, let's get on to the parts that are more universally accepted as degrading factors to the quality of film: the plot itself is sort of ridiculous; it becomes almost entirely apocalyptic at one point. Not only that, but there are some scientifically questionable things happening (or more accurately *not* happening) after a major plot point. The scenes bounce from character to character in a very choppy and noticeable way- you'll be following the story, and then you suddenly have to watch that one spy guy that you forgot about, whose going on some random side quest; the director emphasizes each characters' importance intentionally to excuse their existence; however, I don't think they were important enough or consistently present enough to make their presence in the story flow. The score was good- the theme's melody, in my opinion, was kind of reminiscent to Auld Lang Syne because of the chord progression- the composer was giving me good vibes and using interesting techniques throughout (it wasn't good enough that I would listen to the score in my own free time though). Ben Affleck in any movie is a kind of poor casting choice in my opinion because he isn't the best actor (this movie is a testimony to that), but the rest of the cast is perfectly fine. I prefer this Russian president far more than Branagh's evil villain portrayal in that other Jack Ryan movie (No offense to Branagh but he tends to be overly dramatic when he's his own boss). That's about it though. I hope some people find this useful.