The Sum of All Fears (film)
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The Sum of All Fears is a 2002 film by Phil Alden Robinson, based on the book by the same name by Tom Clancy. It stars Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman.
Plot
A small group of neo-nazi terrorists recover a nuclear bomb which they decide to use at a Super Bowl, and then frame the Russians. Jack Ryan (Affleck), an Intelligence officer at the CIA, must prevent a nuclear exchange between Russia and the USA.
- Tagline: 27,000 Nuclear Weapons. One Is Missing.
Main Cast
- Ben Affleck... Jack Ryan
- Morgan Freeman... DCI William Cabot
- Bridget Moynahan... Dr. Catherine Muller
- James Cromwell... President Robert Fowler
- Liev Schreiber... John Clark
- Alan Bates... Richard Dressler
- Ron Rifkin... Secy. State Sidney Owens
- Ciarán Hinds... President Nemerov
Deviations from the book
While the basic plot was the same, there were significant changes from the book. Noting these substantial changes, in the commentary track on the DVD release, Tom Clancy introduces himself as "the author of the book that he (Phil Alden Robinson) ignored".
- The original terrorists in the novel were Muslim extremists, but in the movie, they are changed to neo-Nazis. A common misconception is that this was done as a reaction to the 9/11 attacks. However the script was conceived before September 11, 2001.
- The attacked city was changed from Denver to Baltimore, Maryland.
- Jack Ryan is a low-level Intelligence Officer analyst in the movie, whereas he is the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence in the book.
- The bomb in the movie is a tactical fission device, not a thermonuclear bomb as in the book.
- The setting is in a post-Soviet world.
- Also the "battle for Berlin" is excluded from the script (since the book was based in c. 1989 there is still a Soviet garrison in the city and during the course of the book, there is a clash between Russian and American tanks), although the Berlin Brigade is (falsely) mentioned at the beginning of the movie.
- Spinnaker (the mole in the Russian government) is actually found to be an unreliable source because he is making up or changing information for his own benefit to become a president of the USSR (or the Russian federation).
- Robby Jackson's role is deleted and instead of the US fighters splashing Libyan MIGs the USS John C. Stennis is attacked by Backfire bombers. For some reason the AEGIS escorts are not there and despite the worsening international situation there is no sign of even normal air patrols. Instead of firing their missiles from a distance, the Russian bombers close to within range of the carrier's Phalanx point defense system (drawing no fire from its Sea Sparrow missile system, either) before firing, and succeed in disabling the ship.
External Links
| Jack Ryan films |
| Alec Baldwin: The Hunt for Red October |
| Harrison Ford: Patriot Games | Clear and Present Danger |
| Ben Affleck: The Sum of All Fears |
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