Without Remorse (2021)
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A U.S. Navy SEAL seeks revenge against Russian operatives after his wife and team members are killed.
The story
In Aleppo, Syria, a team of US Navy SEALs, including Senior Chief Petty Officer John Kelly, rescue a CIA operative taken hostage by a suspected pro-Assad para-military group. The situation escalates as the SEALs discover that the captors are actually Russian military. Three months later, in apparent retaliation for their role in the mission, two members of the team are covertly killed by Russian FSB operatives. Kelly's pregnant wife Pam is murdered when the Russians break into their house. Kelly kills three, all except one of the attackers, before being rushed to the hospital with near-fatal wounds.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
After his wife and team are killed by Russian forces, Navy SEAL John Kelly is forced into a desperate mission to find the remaining assassin, a man named Victor Rykov. Despite the risk of sparking a new Cold War, Kelly works with his commander, Karen Greer, to track Rykov to Murmansk, Russia. During a high-stakes operation involving a plane crash and a confrontation with Rykov, Kelly discovers the mission was a setup to start a war. He is forced to go rogue to escape and eventually uncovers a conspiracy by a high-ranking official, Thomas Clay, who orchestrated the conflict for economic gain. After confronting Clay and ensuring his own survival, Kelly is given a new identity as 'John Clark' and eventually proposes the creation of a multinational counter-terrorism team called Rainbow.
- Original title
- Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
- First release year
- 2021
- Runtime (minutes)
- 109
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Stefano Sollima
- Writers
- Taylor Sheridan · writer; Will Staples · writer
- Cast and characters
- Michael B. Jordan · John Kelly; Jamie Bell; Jodie Turner-Smith; Luke Mitchell; Jack Kesy; Brett Gelman; Lauren London; Colman Domingo; Guy Pearce
- Genres
- action; thriller
- Themes
- revenge; espionage; political intrigue
- Tone and mood
- gritty; action-packed
- Setting
- Aleppo, Syria; Washington, D.C.; Murmansk, Russia
- Premise and plot tags
- military; spy; conspiracy
- Source material / true-story basis
- 1993 novel by Tom Clancy
- Franchise connections
- Rainbow Six
- Reception
- The film received mixed reviews from critics, praising Michael B. Jordan's performance and the action sequences while criticizing the plot as generic.
- Reported review scores
- Rotten Tomatoes · score: 45% · scale: percentage · review count: 191; Metacritic · score: 41 · scale: 100 · review count: 41
- Production trivia
- Keanu Reeves and Tom Hardy were considered for the lead role.; The film was originally intended for a theatrical release by Paramount Pictures.
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