![]() ![]() I had a lot of hope for this one, and maybe my expectations were a bit too high. ![]() Unfortunately, the movie also has more in common with Shadow Recruit than Patriot Games. So, you won’t spoil anything for yourself by reading the novel. Photo by Nadja Klier © 2020 Paramount Pictures.ĭespite having the same title as a landmark Clancyverse novel, the new Amazon original movie, Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse - call it TCWR - bears almost no resemblance to the book. When the big movie machine, of which Netflix and Amazon Studios are now certainly a part, decides it doesn’t want to use one of Clancy’s many novels as source material and goes with an original story for his characters instead, you get Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. ![]() Historically, when Hollywood uses one of the late author’s novels as a blueprint for movie scripts, things go pretty well, and we get excellent movies like The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and to a lesser extent, The Sum of All Fears. Some of the hallmarks of a good Tom Clancy story include international espionage, a stout-hearted and patriotic protagonist, a good mystery that runs throughout, and cool details of military or government inner workings that can only come from deep research. ![]()
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