‘Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War’ Review: A Solid, Safe, Espionage Endeavor
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is back in Ghost War, the first full-length movie starring John Krasinski as the famed CIA operative. The movie, directed by Andrew Bernstein (who directed episodes of the TV series), premieres on Prime Video on Wednesday. If you’re at all familiar with the four-season series that preceded it, you’re about to get more of the same. Well, sorta. When Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan TV series premiered, I was all in. Truthfully, I am a sucker for espionage stories and spy thrillers, and I write about TV, so having Clancy’s iconic character make the leap to episodic storytelling was a no-brainer for me to tune in. I didn’t stick with it, though. Jack Ryan feels more at home in self-contained, big-budget action films. Just look at the previous iterations of the character as played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine. Well, three years after the original series concluded, we’re getting a new Jack Ryan movie — except, it’s not in theaters. Read more: Prime Video: The 31 Absolute Best Shows …
