Pine Jack Ryan Regrets
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Chris Pine is not happy about his work on Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit which was released early in the year.
In Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, “Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.”
The movie did not do well at the box office, only grossing $135.5 million worldwide, and Pine blamed the mixed reviews and bad box office figures on his performance.
“I don’t think [Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit] made enough money for that [a sequel] to happen,” he said. “That’s one of my deep regrets, that we didn’t totally get that right. It’s a great franchise, and if it’s not me, then I hope it gets a fifth life at this point. It’s just great. I love the spy genre. I hope it’s done again and with a great story.”
Ryan has been played by four actors including Pine, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, and Ben Affleck.
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That’s pretty impressive; usually it takes actors years to admit that something they did wasn’t good, or that they didn’t turn in their best performance. Personally, I enjoyed the new Jack Ryan movie and thought Pine was good in it; I probably liked his Ryan second to Alec Baldwin in “Red October.”
I agree, it’s pretty big of him to admit a potential personal shortcoming. The movie certainly didn’t bomb, but it underperformed to what the studio expected. I thought Pine was good in it, but the story was rather mediocre. I’d blame the writers more than Pine for the film’s underperforming.
Exactly what you said. The writing was nothing special. The story wasn’t memorable. Pine was fine!
Chris, you fool! NEVER EVER EVER accept blame for anything. This is why I make movies and you don’t.
You are sooooo funny!
Not Pine’s fault in the least!
The Jack Ryan movie franchise was already out of gas years before he took over that part. And the fact that the script was average at best didn’t help. Even Clancy’s novels got bad toward the end of his life.
Have any of you haters actually seen the movie? I watched it the other day on Netflix. His performance was actually quite good. I don’t think that’s the reason the movie flopped. It flopped because the story was weak and the direction was awful. Given the story that the actors had to work with, I think Chris did great, and Kiera did too. I think a sequel with a better story and a new director should be given a chance.