Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

In a word, absurd. In two words, Politically Correct, or at least as politically correct as you could expect a Jack Ryan story to be. Jim Greer is a muslim. Who knew? Jack gets reluctantly forced into the field, and in one situation he shoots and kills a terrorist. It seems like he's about ready to cry, especially perplexing given his backstory as a United States Marine who had been deployed to Afghanistan. Then there are the subplots, the most nauseating one involving a drone pilot who has a crisis of conscience about ridding the world of murderous terrorists. Then he takes a few days off to travel to Syria to make amends to the father of one of his "victims." The stupidity doesn't end there, sadly. Even sadder is the fact that the cast is pretty solid, including a few very talented and respected actors. I was especially dismayed to see Abbie Cornish slumming in the role of Dr. Love Interest. She's better t;han this. The production values are very good, while the writing and stories are anything but. Kinda funny to laugh at, if you're in the mood, but more often than not it's just annoying to bear witness to the expedient depths to which the writers will sink, insulting the intelligence of the viewer and detaching from any sense of reality, in order to keep the plot rolling along. Definitely not worthy of the Tom Clancy name or of all the hype that preceded the premiere of the series.