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36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekVillage VoiceStephanie ZacharekJack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is half silliness, half swagger, but Branagh's arms-akimbo impudence as a director makes it work. He takes it all seriously, but with a wink.
- 75New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithSoundly structured, smart and fast, with a plausible central scenario, several gripping moments and well-wrought dialogue.
- 75Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundSlant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundIn keeping his actors on his sober-yet-buoyant plane, Kenneth Branagh presents a convincing romance that doesn't stall the film's brisk clip.
- 70VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangCrisp, efficient and appreciably modest in scale...this conspicuous attempt to breathe new life into a long-dormant action franchise gets at least a few things right, chiefly the shrewd casting of Chris Pine.
- 70The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisA competently made, moderately diverting variation on a genre standard.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanBranagh did a nice job of directing "Thor," but all he can do here is try to energize the recycled pulp of the script.
- 63USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigThe film is slow in getting started and once it's underway it's only intermittently involving. It's also occasionally far-fetched.
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreBranagh & Co. keep up appearances with a thriller that works mainly because all of its parts — locations, fights and plot twists — are well worn from all the thrillers they’ve been in before.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfThe plot’s a bit complex for what amounts to a lot of running around — the movie can’t help but evoke the Bourne series along with a high-gloss hint of Skyfall, not wholly unpleasantly.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyEfficient, if ultimately rote, political thriller.