Struggling against destroying the plans of a new Nazi attack that seeks to break the ties and relationship between the United States president and the new elected president of Russia, by detonating a nuclear weapon during a football match in Paltimore, CIA analyst, Jack Ryan, does his best to save the situation.
23 April 1939, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Almaty, Kazakhstan]
9 November 1971, Santa Monica, California, USA
27 March 1921, Petrograd [now St. Petersburg], Russia
October 25, 1965 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA
4 December 1954, Khorostkov, Ternopol Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Khorostkiv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine]
23 March 1935, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 June 1937, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
25 March 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 May 1932, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
4 October 1967, San Francisco, California, USA
2 November 1922, Montreal, Québec, Canada
1970, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
27 January 1940, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 August 1940, Dayton, Ohio, USA
31 March 1958
15 August 1972, Berkeley, California, USA
22 August 1958, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1940, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
9 February 1953, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
August 13, 2016
The Sum of All Fears is ultimately a decent Ryan adventure that could (and should) have been so much better...June 10, 2002
Affleck merely creates an outline for a role he still needs to grow into, a role that Ford effortlessly filled with authority.June 04, 2002
A trite espionage thriller without the thrills but with a lingering measure of nausea.July 20, 2002
An implausible apocalypse without depth or resonance, a cartoon of international politics presented with no James Bond-like playfulness and with all the superficial realism money can buy.June 03, 2002
The Sum of All Fears is almost impossible to follow -- and there's something cringe-inducing about seeing an American football stadium nuked as pop entertainment.April 29, 2009
A solid thriller with a great cast that tends to suffer from some faults...August 05, 2008
Though this political adventure requires substantial suspension of disbelief, the witty script and mature approach keep the film on track. [Blu-Ray]January 01, 2011
Generic action film not good for kids, or anyone.January 22, 2014
[Ben Affleck's] Jack Ryan is simply impossible to take seriously, and that's something the film could probably never survive.January 07, 2004
... Entertaining and far more relevant than most other action/adventure movies.June 13, 2002
I'm not saying Affleck is in way over his head, but a scuba tank and swim fins might come in handy.June 02, 2002
Phil Alden Robinson, who directed from a script by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne, is an accomplished craftsman, but his movie has been upstaged by the sum of our fears.