"Jack Ryan: Ghost War"
John Krasinski is no fun in “Jack Ryan: Ghost War,” from Amazon MGM Studios

"Jack Ryan: Ghost War"

John Krasinski turns the livewire CIA operative he played for four TV seasons into a pale, movie shadow of his former self. Bummer.

By Peter Travers

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★★ (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?