Release Date:
05/31/2002
We arent exactly puppy-hugging, poetry-spouting Nancy-boys, but even we have to take issue with the release of The Sum of All Fears. Post-September 11, any movie that so much as mentioned the World Trade Center was pulled from release and yet, amid daily reports of dirty bombs being crammed in every orifice in Manhattan, they open a movie about terrorists causing a nuclear explosion on the Eastern seaboard. Do they honestly think people are going to want to drive through four police checkpoints to get to a theater and watch something that could happen as soon as they leave? And to rub salt in the wound, Sum of all Fears is a crap movie that wouldnt have any structure at all if it didnt steal dialogue, plot, and characters from about 10 other films.
The good news? Apparently, nuclear explosions arent all that harmful. The heros girlfriend takes a mushroom cloud straight to the grill and it barely smudges her lipstick. Also, if the entire Super Bowlfans, players, peanut vendors, etc.gets wiped to dust by terrorists, we can expect a nice picnic on the White House lawn where survivors casually sip white wine to drown their, um, sorrows. Right. But want to know what really strains credibility? That some actors make one bad film and are forever exiled to cable-movieville, yet Ben Affleck continues to find work. Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin, well be holding a wake in honor of the Jack Ryan character, and youre both invited.
The good news? Apparently, nuclear explosions arent all that harmful. The heros girlfriend takes a mushroom cloud straight to the grill and it barely smudges her lipstick. Also, if the entire Super Bowlfans, players, peanut vendors, etc.gets wiped to dust by terrorists, we can expect a nice picnic on the White House lawn where survivors casually sip white wine to drown their, um, sorrows. Right. But want to know what really strains credibility? That some actors make one bad film and are forever exiled to cable-movieville, yet Ben Affleck continues to find work. Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin, well be holding a wake in honor of the Jack Ryan character, and youre both invited.