Without Remorse might look like part of an effort by the online monolith to build up some kind of misbegotten Clancyverse, but it’s actually a COVID casualty that was initially intended for theaters, then offloaded by Paramount after its planned release was delayed one too many times. Recently, the role’s been filled by John Krasinski, whose Jack Ryan series is two seasons deep on Amazon and set for another one. John Clark is a Tom Clancy creation who exists in the same military-espionage universe as the better-known but similarly double-first-named Jack Ryan, who over the years has been played on the big screen by Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Chris Pine. John Clark may be as good with a knife as he is with a gun and able to hold his breath indefinitely, but man, does he seem just dumb as a rock. Instead, it is just exceedingly funny ( John Clark is so tough he’s ready to self-immolate in order to intimidate someone! He doesn’t care that he could just stand outside issuing threats through the window!). This is supposed to look cool, with the flames leaping and the window glass splintering in the heat ( John Clark is a loose cannon! He doesn’t give a damn if he lives or dies!). Early in the movie, he T-bones a former Russian Federal Security Service member on his way to the airport, pours gasoline all over the wrecked vehicle, sets it on fire, and then gets inside. The trouble with this technique is that John Clark apparently has to be in the car himself when attempting it. He does this two times - the first to extract information about who killed his wife, and the second to get his target to utter said wife’s name out loud before dying. Jordan in Without Remorse, involves trapping someone inside a car that’s on fire or sinking into a river in order to get them to talk.

The signature action-hero move of John Clark, the rogue Navy SEAL played by Michael B.

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