- Content: “Jack Ryan Returns From the Beyond”
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What You Need To Know:
As a spy thriller, JACK RYAN: GHOST WAR is an interesting action movie. It is well written and produced, with good pacing and excellent acting. It also has a strong moral, patriotic worldview, with a clear good versus evil storyline and witty one-liners. However, GHOST WAR relies too heavily on the series for most of its context, instead of being a standalone movie. JACK RYAN: GHOST WAR also has some very strong violence and an excessive, gratuitous amount of strong foul language. So, the movie is ultimately unacceptable.
Content:
Strong moral, patriotic worldview mixed with some Romantic elements, both the titular hero with moral and romantic undertones, both the main perspectives of the movie, Jack’s and Greer’s, are motivated by the safety and protection of the citizens of their country and their home, however, Jack Ryan is fueled by a desire of doing the right thing despite the darkness that surrounds their work of espionage in the CIA, he frequently seeks to do the right thing, implying that even if he doesn’t say it out right, Dr. Jack Ryan must believe in some higher power, in contrast, Director Greer believes in his own emotions in deciding the right actions so he has a more Romantic worldview, but both are against anything that harms the innocent citizens of their country and allies, the movie also seems to imply that the CIA is working for the benefit of American citizens
39 or more obscenities (including 14 or more “f” words), nine strong profanities using a variation of the name of Jesus Christ, nine GD profanities, and about six light profanities
Some very strong and lots of strong and intense deadly action violence with some blood includes two flashback war scenes with war violence and intense interrogation, a sniper assassinates someone, assassin slits a man’s throat, people are gunned down in scenes involving car chases, there’s a car bomb, a helicopter mini gun is used on a civilian building, and hero shoots a terrorist villain in the head
No sex
No nudity
There are three moments where alcohol is used. The first is on the plane with champagne, the second is the party on the boat in Dubai people are drinking in the background, the third is when Jack and Emma go to an office above a pub where people are drinking, however, there is not drunkenness in the movie
No drugs, but Emma smokes six times in the film, usually after an intense scene, to relax; and,
Lying by the titular hero and his former boss, multiple kidnapping scenes usually having the titular hero being kidnapped by somebody, the main villain commits both treason and terrorism along with another agent, and there are two scenes where characters disregard traffic laws.
More Detail:
The movie picks up where the TV series left off three years ago. Dr. Jack Ryan has somewhat adjusted to his civilian life on Wall Street as a financial analyst. His quiet life is interrupted by his friend and former commanding officer James Greer, deputy director of the CIA. What should have been a simple pickup assignment leads Jack back into the world of espionage as he ends up in a plot that’s been 20 years in the making.
It turns out Greer was part of a project designed to destroy terrorist groups before they got the chance to do irreparable damage to the world. This project is being reversed by notorious former CIA operative Liam Crown, who plans to revive the very terrorist groups they once helped to dismantle. In order to stop Crown, Jack teams up with Greer, his old friend Mike November and a new ally in the form of Emma Marlow, an ambitious MI6 operative with an axe of her own to grind against Crown.
JACK RYAN: GHOST WAR has a lot going for it. For one, it’s well produced and well written. The actors seemingly fall back into their old roles and are able to bring life and intrigue to their old characters while still having some interesting twists and turns. Under normal circumstances, one of the hardest things about thriller movies is the balance of pacing out the intrigue with the action. This movie doesn’t have that problem because the espionage, the action and the background information are all paced very well. In addition, the actors definitely perform their roles very well.
Despite this, the movie has one major flaw and that is that it doesn’t work as a standalone movie. There are many moments in GHOST WAR that seem to be callbacks or imply events that are not directly mentioned, that occurred within the four seasons of the series
JACK RYAN: GHOST WAR has an interesting thematic mixture. For example, it has a strong patriotic worldview with some moral and romantic undertones. All the actions by Jack Ryan and James Greer are for the good and security of their country. Despite this, the two men have different personal worldviews. Jack Ryan sees the world as black and white where there is a clear distinction between good and evil, and he wants to do good in the world despite working as a spy. James Greer, on the other hand, uses his own personal emotions to make his judgements, doing what he feels is right as opposed to having some higher power guide his conscience. That said, other characters fight for the hopes, dreams and safety of American citizens as well as the world at large, which is why they both do jobs that are difficult.
This leads to the movie’s concerning elements of the movie. JACK RYAN: GHOST WAR is not a movie meant for children of any age and even adults should watch with caution. It has quite a few concerning elements including excessive foul language, lots of intense violence, and a collection of other immoral activities. There is hardly a single scene that doesn’t have some sort of strong foul language in. GHOST WAR also has some very strong violence and lots of strong, intense action violence. Most of the violent acts are done by the movie’s villains while the heroes mostly act in self-defense. JACK RYAN: GHOST WAR also adds a lot of miscellaneous immorality, including espionage, treason, lying, and kidnapping.
JACK RYAN: GHOST WAR is a fun watch for action and thriller lovers, as well as fans of the television series JACK RYAN. It has a well-paced and well-produced story. Also, the movie has a strong moral, patriotic worldview, with a clear good versus evil storyline and witty one liners. However, the movie relies too heavily on its preceding series for understanding the story. Even worse, JACK RYAN: GHOST WAR has an excessive, gratuitous amount of foul language, including 15 or more strong obscenities and about 20 or more strong profanities.
