Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
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Other than the random kid in the jungle that comes and steals the stuff from the dude who had decided to leave the boat when he was the designated driver then gets lost, then kid runs off like tarzan to later chill and read a comic book in the middle of no where before the other guys come find him.. yeah enjoyable I guess.
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Yeah I didnt understand why he ran off like that. I guess they were about to find the boat so maybe go and hide somewhere for a bit, but why just walk off like that?
meStevo
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I expected when that happened he'd pull out the LED thing they made a point of mentioning and they'd pick him up just up the coast or something. It's not like the bad guys were running down the beach.
I understand why he jumped out, if they made it to the boat he was fucked, everything after that in the jungle I just didn't like for the balance of the show for the most part.
I understand why he jumped out, if they made it to the boat he was fucked, everything after that in the jungle I just didn't like for the balance of the show for the most part.
Jorren
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I dunno what FoH site you are reading, this is people being nice about a show
...dude get stabbed in the leg a few times and then the Eye, and bolts outrunning Greer. OK dude has a heart condition. Will let that slide. In the next day or two same dude is getting chased on rooftops like he is not impaired at all... I am the master of suspension of disbelief but that really got me heh.
On Ep 5, so far I am enjoying it.
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It was an enjoyable enough way to fill time. Kudos to Prime for making the episodes 40-42 minutes, BUT it wasn't exactly an espionage show.
It was more of a culmination of smaller (non-world-changing) plots sewn together. Never did quite understand what the purpose of the assassination plot was? But then again, I didn't get the point of the election plot, the spy-who-loves-me plot, the killer elite plot, the satellite technology plot, the precious metal plot, the mercenaries gone wild plot ,or the dumb marines (or were they seals?) in the jungle plot... It was like a quilt sewn together of short stories.
It was certainly not on the level of complexity or drama as "The Little Drummer Girl" or "The Night Manager" series... But it was good enough, fairly mindless, fun...
Clancy, as a writer, does much better than Amazon Prime does with his material.
It was more of a culmination of smaller (non-world-changing) plots sewn together. Never did quite understand what the purpose of the assassination plot was? But then again, I didn't get the point of the election plot, the spy-who-loves-me plot, the killer elite plot, the satellite technology plot, the precious metal plot, the mercenaries gone wild plot ,or the dumb marines (or were they seals?) in the jungle plot... It was like a quilt sewn together of short stories.
It was certainly not on the level of complexity or drama as "The Little Drummer Girl" or "The Night Manager" series... But it was good enough, fairly mindless, fun...
Clancy, as a writer, does much better than Amazon Prime does with his material.
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I also like the whole scene where they were trying to escape the embassy, so jack and the embassy head dude are out in the country and here comes a fucking truck with a mounted 50 cal machine gun spraying down the piddly little foreign car, while they are just chilling behind it. And then the embassy dude pulls out his bazooka and assplodes the truck, then they both get in the sprayed down car and drive away like nothing happened, lul. So many things wrong with that scene.
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"I also like the whole scene where they were trying to escape the embassy, so jack and the embassy head dude are out in the country and here comes a fucking truck with a mounted 50 cal machine gun spraying down the piddly little foreign car, while they are just chilling behind it. And then the embassy dude pulls out his bazooka and assplodes the truck, then they both get in the sprayed down car and drive away like nothing happened, lul. So many things wrong with that scene"
Ha ha ha! I know! Even BETTER was that car was having stupid, inexplicable, plot-thickening (not-really) malfunctions BEFORE it got perforated with enough uranium-tipped rounds to sink a submarine! Then it worked just fine! Maybe that explains why hitting the soda machine makes it work...
Ha ha ha! I know! Even BETTER was that car was having stupid, inexplicable, plot-thickening (not-really) malfunctions BEFORE it got perforated with enough uranium-tipped rounds to sink a submarine! Then it worked just fine! Maybe that explains why hitting the soda machine makes it work...
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Sanrith Descartes
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Not as good as S1. This really has nearly zero to do with Clancy's version of Jack aside from the name and stuff. II tend to forget about Jack Ryan and just view this as as sort of an Amazon original spy story and it's better that way. Isn't the Greer actor Bunk from the Wire?
Also, Noomi Rapace is just abysmal. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is her one and only good performance (and it is amazing), but everything she has done since is just shit.
Also, Noomi Rapace is just abysmal. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is her one and only good performance (and it is amazing), but everything she has done since is just shit.