The Sum of All Fears

CIA agent Jack Ryan races to avert war between Russia and the US after a terrorist threatens to detonate a nuclear bomb., The Russian president suddenly dies and a young CIA analyst must uncover who is behind the sinister plot to draw the US and Russia into World War III., (2002) Ben Affleck stars as CIA agent Jack Ryan in Paul Alden Robinson’s adaptation of Tom Clancy’s novel. Ryan faces a race against time to track down terrorists who have acquired a nuclear weapon and plan to detonate it at the Super Bowl, implicating the Russians as the perpetrators and triggering a nuclear exchange., Ben Affleck takes over the role of CIA überagent Jack Ryan in this adaptation of Tom Clancy’s 1991 novel. But this time around, the author’s familiar hero (“The Hunt for Red October”) is an agency neophyte trying to stop a nuclear showdown between the U.S. and Russia., The sudden appointment of a new Russian premier throws America’s security forces into confusion, particularly after a biological weapons strike in Chechnya. As the US gears up for war, analyst Jack Ryan races to prove that Russia is still friendly. Thriller., CIA operative Jack Ryan hunts neo-Nazi terrorists, who plan to detonate a nuclear weapon in the U.S. An uneven adaptation of the Tom Clancy thriller. In Clancy’s novel, the terrorists were Islamic extremists., CIA operative Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) hunts neo-Nazi terrorists, who plan to detonate a nuclear weapon in the U.S. An uneven adaptation of the Tom Clancy thriller. Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell. Affleck takes over for Harrison Ford, who played Ryan in two previous films, “Clear and Present Danger” and “Patriot Games.” In Clancy’s novel, the terrorists were Islamic extremists., The successful franchise of Paramount motion pictures based on novelist Tom Clancy’s techno-thrillers featuring heroic CIA intelligence analyst Jack Ryan stages a much-publicized “do-over” with this action-adventure that recasts the character of Ryan as a rookie to the complex game of geopolitical warfare. Ben Affleck takes the reins from Harrison Ford as Ryan, a greenhorn CIA historian and analyst who finds himself thrust front and center into the spy community’s spotlight when Nemerov (Ciaran Hinds), a Russian politician on whom Ryan is an expert, suddenly becomes the leader of the former Soviet Union upon the current president’s unexpected demise. Attached to the director of the CIA, Cabot (Morgan Freeman), Ryan insists — contrary to the opinions of many high-ranking White House officials — that Nemerov is not a warmonger. Meanwhile, a cadre of neo-fascists, led by Dressler (Alan Bates), plots the detonation at the Super Bowl in Baltimore, MD, of a nuclear device recovered from a long-ago Israeli fighter jet crash, a terrorist incident they intend to spark a war between the super powers, leaving them to conquer the world in the conflict’s post-apocalyptic vacuum. The Sum of All Fears co-stars James Cromwell, Bridget Moynahan, and Liev Schreiber as covert operative John Clark, a character central to another series of Clancy’s best-selling tomes., When the president of Russia suddenly dies and is succeeded by a man about whom little is known, tension increases as old fears ignite new paranoia. Director of Central Intelligence Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst from the Russia desk, Jack Ryan, to supply insight and advice. Then the unthinkable happens: the capital of Chechnya is leveled by a nuclear bomb., Ben Affleck stars as Cia agent Jack Ryan in Paul Alden Robinson’s adaptation of Tom Clancy’s novel. This time, he’s in a race against time to track down the terrorists who’ve acquired a nuclear weapon and plan to detonate it at the Superbowl while implicating the Russians as the perpetrators, triggering a nuclear exchange.