“Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” opens Friday at Point, Eastgate and Star Cinemas. 1:45, PG-13, two and a half stars out of four.

Paramount Pictures must have had one overriding fear — that the rights to Jack Ryan, the late Tom Clancy’s two-fisted CIA analyst, had been languishing for over a decade (since 2002’s “The Sum of All Fears”), and with Clancy’s passing, interest might vanish altogether.

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