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: The Sum of All Fears


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starring: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Ken Jenkins, Liev Schreiber
directed by: Phil Alden Robinson







Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: Video Download
Release Date: June 18, 2008
Running Time: 124 minutes
Sales Rank: 591
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: May 30, 2002



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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Not a bad thriller.
Action thriller set in 2002 in which a neo-Nazi terrorist group gets hold of a small Israeli nuclear bomb that went missing during the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 and uses it to try and trick America and Russia into nuclear war with each other, and the efforts of a CIA analyst played by Ben Affleck to prevent this nightmare scenario from happening. Not a bad thriller, with one particularly horrifying moment on which the whole film hinges, but it must be said I have seen films with `preventing World ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - GOOD ENTERTAINMENT BUT WITH A SOBERING TOPIC


I've had this DVD on the shelf for a few years but never watched it. And the book is one of Tom Clancy's I'd never read. Having the three other DVDs of Clancy's books I kinda knew what to expect. But the movie was a pleasant surprise in its realism of just what a small detonatioin could do. And the subject is still a valid one today, what one deranged group with one device could achieve.

I noticed Tom Clancy was the producer, so he must have had some input to this movie. ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - It ain't over yet
Even in this new era of Russian and American friendship
into which this film came, there are still atomic bombs on both sides.
Technically the handling of people in the bomb area in this film is very wrong : at the hospital and on the streets.
Everyone is taught that the ashes from the bomb are as deadly as the bomb itself. No one was doing decontaminations here.
The brinkmanship here was classic and the Jack Ryan as good as ever.
Tom Clancy is a very good spy/ suspense ... Read More



Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Total disappointment.
Other reviews already written go into specifics about the film. So let me just add my two cents. The movie is awful. It is not anywhere in the same league as the other Tom Clancy novel films. It's boring, poorly paced, not true to the book, cliche, and all together lacking any depth or originality. I never felt on the edge of my seat or worried about any of the characters. The actors are excellent in other films (esp. Morgan Freeman) but in this film cardboard cut outs. Don't waste your time.



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Actors excellent! Script not so good.
I enjoyed the first hour or so of this film, but then it turned into a replay of War Games. The last 30-40 minutes jumped around and were so rushed that all that remained was the predictable outcome.




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