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The Sum of All Fears

PG-13
Movie
2002
2h 4m
English
Thriller, Action, Drama
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
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6.3
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The Sum of All Fears (2002) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
52

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Ben Affleck
Jack Ryan
Morgan Freeman
DCI William Cabot
James Cromwell
President Fowler
Liev Schreiber
John Clark
Bridget Moynahan
Dr. Cathy Muller
Alan Bates
Dressler
Ciarn Hinds
President Nemerov
Philip Baker Hall
Defense Secretary Becker
Ron Rifkin
Secretary of State Owens
Bruce McGill
National Security Advisor Revell
Josef Sommer
Senator Jessup
Ken Jenkins
Admiral Pollack
Michael Byrne
Anatoli Grushkov
John Beasley
General Lasseter
Ian Mongrain
Syrian Radar Operator
Russell Bobbitt
Israeli Pilot
Al Vandecruys
US STRATCOM Colonel
Philip Pretten
President's Military Aide
Alison Darcy
Fowler's Aide
Richard Marner
President Zorkin
Ostap Soroka
Zorkin's Translator
Robert Martin Robinson
Zorkin's Interviewer
Directed By: Phil Alden Robinson
Written By: Paul Attanasio (Screenplay), Tom Clancy (Screenplay), + 2 more

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ultramookie says...
6 years ago
There's nothing like watching people reading from screens as a riveting suspenseful ending to a film (please see sarcasm). Alec Baldwin continues to be the best Jack Ryan. I never bought into the idea that Liev Schreiber as John Clark.
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DRNKMNKY says...
9 years ago
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A nearly perfect thriller with one huge downside and absurdity in the form of an absolutely unbelievable part of the plot: a no-body in the form of a lowly CIA analyst cannot only convince a high-ranking US military person to let him communicate with the Russian president (during the midst of the beginning of a nuclear war between the USA and Russia nota bene (!)) , no, he can even convince the president to abort further nuclear attacks on the USA. Absolutely rubbish and I will never understand what director Phil Robinson and his colleagues where think when coming up with this particular aspect of the plot!
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AlfieSGD says...
2 months ago
My rating for “The Sum of All Fears” is the result of the sum of two very different halves of the movie. While the first hour consists of a lot of boring worldbuilding in which it is far too obvious that Ben Affleck was simply not the right choice for the character of Jack Ryan, the movie picks up speed considerably after an explosive middle section. Accordingly, the second half offers plenty of suspense and is gripping right to the end. If it hadn't been for the 60 minutes of boredom at the start, “The Sum of All Fears” could have been a genuinely good thriller, but as it is, it's just pure mediocrity.
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Bob.Frapples says...
one year ago
Some good some bad here. Improvements over the prior movies is that Harrison Ford is no longer Jack Ryan. He was at LEAST 15 years too old to be playing the part. Affleck was an improvement. Live Schreiber was so much better as John Clark than Willem DeFoe. 1000X. If you read the books you already know that. Some of the changes they make from the book do not make sense. Leaving out entire plot lines. I think Clancy just sold them a list of character names and said a nuke weapon got lost a long time ago and now it came home to blow up a football game.
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FinFan
CONTAINS SPOILERS3/10  7 years ago
They really messed up the Ryan movie franchise with this one.

I think this also is the movie that made me dislike Affleck. But that´s not the reason for the mess up. By choosing Affleck to play Ryan and since he´s obviously much younger than Harison Ford, they needed to place the story before More
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$hubes
9/10  3 years ago
At a quick glance - and judging from the mediocre 70% overall rating on here - this movie was not well received. However, I found it very enjoyable, even though a bit dated. (Of course, at my age, I'm getting to where I _prefer_ the "dated" movies as all the current stuff is mostly just tripe and re More
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sooner1ksn
3 years ago
As a movie, it is OK, actually one of Afflec's better efforts. However, apparently the writer of the screenplay read a different book than I did, because "The Sum Of All Fears", the movie, had about 3 things in common with the book: The name, the main characters, and the fact that it involved nucle More
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John Chard
6 years ago
Let's see. Who else has 27,000 nukes for us to worry about?

The Sum of All Fears is directed by Phil Alden Robinson and adapted to screenplay by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne from the novel of the same name written by Tom Clancy. It stars Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Ciaran Hin More
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