Based on the 1991 Tom Clancy technothriller, this big-budget spectacle treads an uneasy path between the traditions of globe-trotting espionage movies and nuclear scare pictures like FAIL SAFE (1964). The two don't really go together; one is meant to be fun and the other is meant to induce nightmares. Chronologically, the events in FEARS come after those in THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (1990), PATRIOT GAMES (1992) and CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER (1994), all of which feature Clancy's ongoing protagonist, veteran CIA agent Jack Ryan. But it's actually a kind of prequel — Ryan (Ben Affleck) is starting his career at the Agency — incongruously set in the present. A ju...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
124 mins