![]() ![]() Clancy, who died in 2013, became a celebrity pulp novelist by fusing Cold War righteousness with insider munitions fetishism. The specter of Russian aggression haunts “Without Remorse,” which is based on a 1993 Tom Clancy novel that was spun off from the Jack Ryan series. ![]() Which means that he’s now a ticking time bomb with his dial set to “bloody revenge.” ![]() The assassins go after Kelly, too, gunning down his pregnant wife, Pam (Lauren London), though Kelly himself escapes. Back in the States, several of the SEALs who were part of the mission are killed, execution-style, by Russian nationals. The enemy combatants turn out to be Russian ex-military forces - which is not only a surprise, but something the team’s CIA overseer, the weaselly Robert Ritter (Jamie Bell), is trying to keep from them. Navy SEALs, heads up a mission in Aleppo to rescue a CIA operative who’s been taken hostage. In the opening sequence, which looks like an outtake from “Zero Dark Thirty” shot in the rubble of “Full Metal Jacket,” John Kelly ( Michael B. “Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse” is a lively formulaic action-hero origin story, dunked in combat grunge, that demonstrates how a resourceful lead actor can bend and heighten the meaning of a commercial thriller. ![]()
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