Daily Times
Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse — a routine mission
* Michael B Jordan plays John Kelly, a Navy SEAL whose pregnant wife is killed when Russian operatives invade their home, intending to terminate him
May 4, 2021
Situating the bulk of its action in 2019, “Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse” updates Clancy’s 1993 novel by opening with a prologue in Aleppo, Syria and making reference to the Russian military presence in the country.
But the geopolitics and relative lack of cyber-anything otherwise date the movie to a barely post-Cold War period, while the plot mechanics grind along like holdovers from Charles Bronson’s heyday.