If you’ve got some action-hungry teenagers, this should be fine for them to watch.įrankly, this film could have no objectionable content whatsoever and it would still be a bland, formulaic, fairly soulless trek through action movie clichés. I’m frankly a little surprised that it’s rated “R” in the first place, since I’ve seen worse in PG-13 films. There is minimal extreme profanity which is downright bizarre for a film like this, no nudity or sexual content, no drug use, and no excessively graphic violence (although there’s plenty of sanitized violent action). On the upside, Without Remorse is a very mild R-rated film. I realize that action thrillers aren’t usually emotionally deep or poignant, but this movie is a particularly low point. The plot marches relentlessly on towards its increasingly implausible conflicts and political conclusions, and it ends up steamrolling Jordan’s work along the way. Jordan does his darndest to bring real human emotions to the story, but it doesn’t make much difference. Film adaptations of his books usually struggle with the same problem, and that’s a big problem in Without Remorse.ĭespite the script, Michael B. Post-adolescence, Clancy feels like a paranoid military fanatic who has an excellent grasp on military terminology and technology and almost no understanding of how real human beings talk. Tom Clancy is one of those authors who is really fun to read when you’re about 14 and then drops off sharply as you age. With the help of fellow SEAL Karen Greer (Jodie Turner-Smith) and CIA operative Robert Ritter (Jamie Bell), Kelly will find the truth…no matter what. But the closer he gets, the more he realizes that the cause of his problems may not be in Moscow, but back in D.C.

Determined on revenge, Kelly operates outside the law to track down the surviving members of the Russian hit squad.

Russian affiliated mercenaries turn up in their homes, killing most of Kelly’s team and his pregnant wife, Pam (Lauren London). Jordan) and his team find themselves in more trouble than they can handle. When a CIA-backed op in Syria goes sideways, Navy SEAL John Kelly (Michael B.

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