I always see what people are saying on IMDb before I waste too much time. It's being destroyed on there.

I was interested in this when I saw the ads on TV, due to the fact that Lauren London has a part in it. The film appears to be, I think, at a higher scale than what I typically see Lauren in, i.e. maybe it's a step up for her. However, it seems that her character dies pretty early in the film and there's not much of her in it. Also, whenever I see an advertisement for a film with a novelist's name before the title (like this one), I'm immediately turned off to it. I'm not sure why, it's just like that. So I may let this go by... in spite of liking Michael B. Jordan's acting ever since seeing him in Fruitvale Station.

It does look very run of the mill and bland. And I never enjoy Tom Clancy films as it is (with the exception of The Hunt for Red October).

@Damienracer said:

@aholejones said:

I had nothing but remorse after watching this piece of crap. Back in the day you knew you were going to see crappy movie if it was made by 'Alan Smithee'. These days you quickly know you are about to get the same experience by watching any movie that has had anything to do with Netflix or Amazon Studios. This here is just a boring mostly nonsensical story you have seen done so many times before you will probably lose interest early on. The corny and awful dialogue is only outdone by one of the worst casting choices I have ever seen. I am of course talking about Jodie Turner-Smith who plays some kind of a female ruff n' tuff Navy Seals leader. Good grief it's so realistic and believable it's like watching a biopic where Richard Simmons is playing Arnold Schwarzenegger. I guess the makers of the film also forgot she was supposed to be the leader of the group because Michael B. Jordan's character can be seen giving her orders in the movie. There's just too much stupidity in the movie and so many stupid scenes in the movie I wouldn't even know where to begin.

Yeah the cast was dull as fuck. Michael B Jordan will never have a memorable role expect for Black Panther where he played the villain. He's just too meh and forgettable. The directors might think he's something special but I don't.

Yeah he was terrible in this. His delivery was so flat and monotonous it reminded me of Denzel's son in that stinker 'Tenet' (why oh why didn't they hire Denzel).

Anyways I said there were so many stupid scenes in this movie I wouldn't know where to start, but I just have to mention a couple. The first one is when Michael B. Jordan goes after some russian diplomat and pours gasoline all over his car and lights it up. At this point the car is fully and completely engulfed in flames and Jordan just walks over to the car and casually opens the door with his bare hand and goes inside to interrogate the diplomat. No biggie. The second one is when he decides to go after an US diplomat (for change) and has him handcuffed to the car on the passenger seat and just decides to drive off a tall bridge into the Potomac river. A little later we hear a news clip that the diplomat was found dead in the river 'in an apparent suicide'. I guess that's one way to perform an apparent suicide.

The book is one of my favorite of Clancy's books. I liked it how Kelly settled the score with Pam's murderers, one by one, parallelly to his military operations.

The film... awful. Why did they change the plot so much? What, having your girlfriend (not wife, and not pregnant) killed by local drug dealers (not Russian operatives) seemed so boring?

The only consolation is that Ritter is one of the good guys, the way he has always been in the books. One of the things I hated about CaPD (IMO the most awful film of all Clancy's movie adaptions) was that Ritter was one of the bad guys.

Agreed .Clancy's books are great and the movies that I've seen we're actually pretty good. this one was definitely a let down.

@articlay said:

Agreed .Clancy's books are great and the movies that I've seen we're actually pretty good. this one was definitely a let down.

I'll probably watch it anyway.