Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
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3.9

In Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Chris Pine steps into the titular shoes of Tom Clancy’s famous leading man for a modern reboot story – chronicling the character’s first active field mission as a CIA operative. After suffering a debilitating injury in military service, Jack Ryan is contacted by CIA team lead William Harper (Kevin Costner), who seeks to put the former marine undercover as a financial analyst. To that end, Jack Ryan leads a double-life, hunting for potential terrorist organizations via suspicious trades on Wall Street, before coming home to his former-physical therapist-turned-girlfriend, Cathy Muller (Keira Knightley).

However, when Jack Ryan uncovers mysterious (and exorbitant) transactions from a Russian firm, Harper sends him to Moscow to investigate. An unsuccessful attempt on his life and a frosty reception from the firm’s CEO, Viktor Cherevin (Kenneth Branagh), forces Ryan to make a desperate play – putting his own safety directly in between malevolent Russian nationalists and a high-profile terrorist attack that would devastate the American economy.