In order to break up the ties and relationship between the United States president and the new elected president of Russia, a new Nazi attack, seeks to detonate a nuclear weapon during a football game in Paltimore, the thing that makes a CIA analyst, Jack Ryan, a famous and successful detective, struggles against saving the situation.
Phil Alden Robinson, who directed from a script by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne, is an accomplished craftsman, but his movie has been upstaged by the sum of our fears.
Common Sense Media
January 01, 2011
Generic action film not good for kids, or anyone.
Village Voice
June 04, 2002
A trite espionage thriller without the thrills but with a lingering measure of nausea.
Ebert & Roeper
June 03, 2002
The Sum of All Fears is almost impossible to follow -- and there's something cringe-inducing about seeing an American football stadium nuked as pop entertainment.
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
January 07, 2004
... Entertaining and far more relevant than most other action/adventure movies.
An implausible apocalypse without depth or resonance, a cartoon of international politics presented with no James Bond-like playfulness and with all the superficial realism money can buy.