The Sum of All Fears
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
Our read · The Sum of All Fears (2002) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded thriller · action · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of The Sum of All Fears
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Jack Ryan geopolitical thriller with a nuclear nightmare scenario.”
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The reading.
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