★★ (2 out of 4)
Just as TV’s the Mandalorian and Grogu try in vain to pass themselves off as movie stars, then John Krasinski makes the same futile effort in “Jack Ryan: Ghost War.” What was Krasinski thinking? Did he forget that actual movie stars Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine have already played the CIA analyst memorably created by bestseller machine Tom Clancy?