| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Christian Pyle (Rating: B) |
| The Sum of All Fears
Reviewed by Christian Pyle
Directed by Phil Alden Robinson
Written by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne (based on the novel by Tom Clancy)
Starring Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, and Liev Schreiber
Grade: B more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Karina Montgomery |
| I saw this a couple of months before it opened at a test screener,
and not since; yet ironically, am writing this review now. All shame
aside, when I saw it that day, not being a Tom Clancy fan or Jack
Ryan fan, I did quite enjoy it. Ben Affleck,...more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Eugene Novikov (Rating: C+) |
| Starring Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber,
Bridget Moynihan, Alan Bates, Ciaran Hinds, Philip Baker Hall, Ron Rifkin,
Bruce McGill, Colm Feore. more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Harry Caul (Rating: 6/10) |
| Starring: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Bridget
Moynahan, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Written by: Akiva Goldsman, Paul Attanasio, Daniel
Pyne
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Release year: 2000 more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Bob Bloom (Rating: 3/4) |
| THE SUM OF ALL FEARS (2002) 3 stars out of 4. Starring Ben Affleck,
Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates, Philip
Baker Hall, Ron Rifkin and Bruce McGill. Music by Jerry Goldsmith.
Screenplay by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne....more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by John Sylva (Rating: C-) |
| Leave it to a Tom Clancy adaptation to be the first massive
disappointment of the summer. The Sum of All Fears could have–and should
have–been one of the few summer films with a bit of intellectual weight
involved, but the sum (so to speak) of...more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Shannon Patrick Sullivan (Rating: 3/4) |
| Directed by Phil Alden Robinson. Screenplay by Paul Attanasio and Daniel
Pyne, based on the novel by Tom Clancy. Starring Ben Affleck, Morgan
Freeman, James Cromell. Running time: 123 minutes. Rated AA for violent
scenes by the MFCB. Reviewed on June...more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Dennis Schwartz (Rating: C) |
| SUM OF ALL FEARS, THE (director: Phil Alden Robinson; screenwriters: based on a
Tom Clancy novel/Paul Attanasio/Daniel Pyne;
cinematographer: John Lindley; editor: Neil Travis; music: Jerry Goldsmith;
cast: Ben Affleck (Jack Ryan), Morgan Freeman (Bill...more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Homer Yen (Rating: B) |
| "The Sum of All Fears" is so good in so many
areas that you wonder why you have this uneasy
feeling that something went terribly amiss when
you leave the theatre. It certainly wasn't the
nuclear bomb that finds its way into a populous
American city...more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 7/10) |
| CAPSULE: Tom Clancy's mammoth novel about nuclear
terrorism comes to the screen. This is probably the
least complex of the Ryan films to date, but it is the
most tense and dramatic. SUM is a whirlwind of a film
with some all too...more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: 3/4) |
| Rating out of 4 stars: 3
Reviewed by Harvey Karten
Paramount Pictures
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Writer: Paul Attanasio, Daniel Pyne, novel by Tom Clancy
Cast: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev
Schreiber, Bridget Moynihan, Alan...more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by JoBlo (Rating: 6/10) |
| PLOT: A young CIA agent, aka Jack Ryan, gets the opportunity of a lifetime when
the Russian president dies and his unknown replacement is a man about whom Jack
knows more than most people. Tagging along to Russia with his superior, Ryan
notices some...more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Robin Clifford (Rating: B+) |
| In 1973, as Egyptian and Syrian forces threaten to annihilate Israel, a
lone fighter-bomber carrying a single nuclear bomb is launched by the
beleaguered Jewish state, just in case defeat looms too near. But, an
anti-aircraft rocket finds the solitary...more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: B+) |
| A South African arms dealer (Colm Feore, "Final Jeopardy") procures an
Israeli nuke at the behest of industrialist Dressler (Alan Bates, "The
Mothman Prophecies"), a Nazi ideologist who believes Hitler was stupid in
trying to defeat Russia and the U.S....more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 7/10) |
| Following the 9/11-delayed Collateral Damage and Big Trouble, which both had
studios worried they'd hit too close to home (but didn't), The Sum of All
Fears should be a much better indication of the public's ability to tolerate
a shockingly brutal and...more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3.5/4) |
| So much in life is about timing. THE SUM OF ALL FEARS, based on the popular
novel by Tom Clancy and directed brilliantly by Phil Alden Robinson (SNEAKERS),
is a great film whose power might have been missed or ridiculed before 9-11 and
whose subject...more |
| The Sum of All Fears Review |
| by Christopher Null (Rating: 2/5) |
| The biggest mystery in The Sum of All Fears is not how terrorists manage to
smuggle a nuclear bomb into downtown Baltimore. Rather, it's how CIA operative
Jack Ryan, formerly played by Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford, has suddenly
become 30 years younger...more |
