Going by his birth name of John Kelly (he adopts the moniker Clark later in the story), John is doing nebulous wet work for the CIA, which is represented by an ambiguous presence named Ritter (Jamie Bell).
Similar to the heroes of that 2018 thriller, Jordan’s protagonist in Without Remorse is the most stoic and badass of a Navy SEALs team filled with stoic badasses. Opening on a clandestine Navy SEALs operation in Syria, Without Remorse features the same no-frills violence that made director Stefano Sollima’s previous collaboration with screenwriter Taylor Sheridan- Sicario: Day of the Soldado-a guilty pleasure. As a one-man army, the actor is relentless in his desire to win over his audience with shock and awe.
Luckily, even at its most cliché, Without Remorse does have a lot going for it whenever Jordan gets unleashed by the script. Actually, Ford’s The Fugitive (1993) might be more apt since this story of a hero out for revenge-over a dead wife who’s been left in the proverbial fridge-feels hopelessly antiquated. This Amazon release is as rooted in ’90s geopolitical values (and movie tropes) as when Harrison Ford starred opposite Dafoe’s Clark in Clear and Present Danger (1994). Updated for the 21st century with Syria replacing a literary origin story rooted in Vietnam, and Clark’s complexion being tweaked for a more inclusive era of action heroes (previous actors who played Clark include Willem Dafoe and Liev Schreiber), Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse presents itself as a modern thriller. That changes in Without Remorse, the long-gestating adaptation of Clancy’s 1993 novel which sees Michael B. Yet, strangely, Clark never got to star in his own movie. If the author ever wanted to indulge in action thrills, there was always John Clark, Clancy’s other recurring protagonist. And at heart, Clancy’s popular Jack Ryan character really works best as a technocrat. Beginning with John McTiernan’s crackling (if even then historically dated) The Hunt for Red October (1990), the decade was a boom era for technocratic spy thrillers. That’s probably true, but movies based on his work are firmly planted in the ‘90s. People like to say Tom Clancy’s politics never left the 1980s.
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