Ranking Every Jack Ryan Film Worst To Best

5. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

The Bourne trilogy, Daniel Craig's Bond movies and the resurgent Mission: Impossible franchise had redefined the spy genre for the 21st Century, and by the time Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit came along there seemed to be little place in this brave new world for Tom Clancy's creation.

Director Kenneth Branagh pulled double duty as the villain, and assembled a star-studded cast led by Chris Pine, backed by Keira Knightley and Kevin Costner. Pine gives his best and Costner brings a grizzled charisma to his exposition-heavy supporting role, but Knightley hardly seems interested at all as the thankless damsel in distress.

Not a terrible movie by any means, but often a painfully generic and formulaic one that brought little to the table in the way of originality, Shadow Recruit did little to convince people that the new and improved Jack Ryan was worth their time, and suffered the worst reviews and lowest box office totals in the 20-year history of the franchise as a result.