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The Sum of All Fears - Phil Alden Robinson (2002, DVD)
When I saw, not long after 9/11, that this was being filmed, I feared the worst. I was half avoiding seeing it. I thought the book was pretty good apart from the end, and was sure that the movie was going to carry a very heavy-handed war-on-terrorism, America-rules message. The filmmakers in some ways took the high road, choosing to replace the Middle Eastern terrorists with European terrorists, for example. A side effect is that the endgame is a confrontation between the US and Russia, substantially more exciting and higher-stakes than the book version, and actually making better use of the Jack Ryan character (who has gone from being played by a 32-going-on-40-year-old Alec Baldwin in the cold-war era Hunt For Red October, to a 30-going-on-25-year-old Ben Affleck in a post-Clinton setting; Harrison Ford, older than either of the other two, played Ryan in the other two movies, one of which is I believe a prequel to Red October). The strategic decisions for the story restructuring actually make really good sense, but the implementation is hurried and cartoonish, and the pacing is awkward. Finally, the handling of the massively-lethal terrorist attack is problematic; admittedly there's no good way to treat such a thing that doesn't either exploit 9/11 or ignore it, but in avoiding tasteless exploitation, the filmmakers wind up avoiding most of the emotional impact of what should be a hugely powerful scene. Military geek notes: Casting Russia as the opponent allows an opportunity to steal part of a battle scene from Clancy's Red Storm Rising, but it's packed into about 30 seconds and glosses over most of the details (which is all that RSR consists of, really), so it's somewhat disappointing. They got the aircraft and missiles right, though.
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