Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

It may not be the standout film, but it's arguably the standout presentation.

All in all, a demo and reference offering.

The 4K disc carries over the Commentary, whilst the Featurettes and Deleted Scenes are on the Blu-ray.

Enter: 2014's Jack Ryan, Mr. Just-Another-Super-Spy.

Completely ignores everything that made the character of Ryan so unusual in favour of just another Bond/Bourne-lite affair.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit looks terrific on UHD. Though it's reportedly an upscale from a 2K digital intermediate, the image dazzles in terms of both its textural presentation and total image clarity....

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit's UHD disc carries over the same DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 lossless soundtrack as found on the 2014 Blu-ray. For a full audio review, please click here....

The UHD release of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit contains no new bonus content, but the disc does carry over the commentary track from the Blu-ray. It is buried in the language options rather than found under...

Paramount has released Director Kenneth Branagh's 2014 film 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit' to the UHD format. The disc, which is currently exclusive to a five-film Jack Ryan box set, features new 2160p/Dolby...

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit offers good, fundamental entertainment delivered by an almost completely hollow vessel. The story is weak and weary, wholly unoriginal and unimaginative. There are precious few...

Jack Ryan is rebooted and recruited on Ultra HD with an excellent, first-class HEVC H.265 encode that offers several notable upgrades over the Blu-ray while also being the best-looking of the lot. Shot...

Like the four previous recruits, the fifth installment to the Ryanverse infiltrates the UHD offices with the same soundtrack enjoyed on the Blu-ray, though this time it's a DTS-HD MA 7.1 mix rather than...

All the same supplements are ported over from previous home video releases, which can be read in more detail in our review of the standard Blu-ray HERE....

Arguably, the most interesting thing about Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, the fifth installment in the loosely-related Jack Ryan film series, is that the plot has no source material on which it was based,...

An original plot inspired by the beloved Tom Clancy character, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is a pseudo-prequel reboot of the franchise, giving Ryan different motivations with slight changes to his history....