I still think Chris Pine is too much of a pretty boy to play a rugged spy/CIA type of role, but I suppose he did quite well. Still a lot of emphasis on his super-blue melt-worthy eyes but I guess they tried to minimize their effect. Honestly, it's hard to get myself into the action-film tense-thriller mode with those romantic-comedy blue eyes hahaha. They did try to make him especially dorky at the beginning where they set the background context of the Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) character, who studied at LSE. He looked kinda plump and really quite friend-zone material at the beginning.
What do you see? Well, blue eyes. I'm wondering if his lips are really that shade of pink. Since it looks a lot like Barbie's pink lips.
Keira Knightley as overreacting Cathy Muller. Her character was really quite insecure and irritating in the movie, and it was really funny that she was so, so relieved when he told her he was a CIA agent and that he really wasn't cheating on her.
Chris Pine looks so American, while Keira Knightley looks too British which made their relationship in the movie look a bit lacking in chemistry, but as individual actor/actress, their performance was rather impressive. I still think she suits period films a little more than modern films. Well, there was a good mix of twists, pensive moments as well as many action shots.
Enough spoilers!
All in all, a great movie. Finally a different kind of terrorist-themed show involving finance and corporate organisations rather than guns, violence and soldiers. Sometimes the same movie themes (i.e. Armageddon-themed films/Terrorist-themed films) do get old. I also feel that they perpetuate certain negative associations with certain races/nationalities that may or may not be true, and sometimes it's really not fair for those races/nationalities in question. They're always portrayed in a specific way in American movies.
Sometimes movies plant such nasty stereotypes about certain nationalities/races. Would you say movies are racist?
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