It was okay but not very memorable for me. I could quote dialog from The Hunt for Red October but I'm having a hard time remembering the plot from this one.
Perhaps because, for all its earlier intimations of intrigue, the plot ended up being "a really big bomb leveling a block of Wall Street, in tandem with some pre-arranged stock market clean-up, will be very bad for the US economy"? Not exactly an intricate scheme, when it comes down to that.
I dunno. I don't try to read anything too deeply into any movie I watch. I just wanna be entertained, and JR:SR did that just fine.
If you're referring to my post there, the entire plot is about a Russian attack on the American economy in general, and attempted destruction of a chunk of Wall Street specifically. And when Ryan tells Costner that this plot could trigger "another Great Depression", it's kind of hard to miss the complete and utter absence of
any acknowledgement of the Great Recession.
If that doesn't bother you, that's fine, but I'm not exactly parsing subtle and unintended themes there. One would have to be rather apolitical indeed, IMHO, to
not have the Great Recession in mind given such a narrative.
On the other hand, I remember the movie feeling like a pretty dated throwback in terms of its
eevil Russian sophisticate upon its release, and then Putin invaded Crimea a few months later. Had it been released during or shortly after all that, it might have gotten significantly more buzz; bad timing luck for Paramount.
