Al vertice della tensione

Titolo originale: The Sum of All Fears
Regia: Phil Alden Robinson |
Anno: 2002
Origine: Canada | Germany | United States of America |
Generi: Thriller Azione Dramma
Tag: central intelligence agency (cia) | usa president | based on novel or book | atomic bomb | spy | cold war | intelligence | chechnya | intelligence agency | nuclear explosion | terrorism | jack ryan | ex military | russian president | baltimore, maryland | cia analyst | intelligence analyst | arms inspection | imminent threat |
Cast: Ben Affleck | Morgan Freeman | James Cromwell | Liev Schreiber | Bridget Moynahan | Alan Bates | Ciarán Hinds | Philip Baker Hall | Ron Rifkin | Bruce McGill | Colm Feore | Josef Sommer | Ken Jenkins | Michael Byrne | John Beasley | Jamie Harrold | Ian Mongrain | Russell Bobbitt | Al Vandecruys | Richard Cohee | Philip Pretten | Alison Darcy | Richard Marner | Ostap Soroka | Robert Martin Robinson | Dale Godboldo | Lee Garlington | Stefan Kalipha | Nabil Elouahabi | Maria Monakhova | Francois Bryon | Pragna Desai | Michel 'Gish' Abou-Samah | Edward Zinoviev | Sheena Larkin | Frank Fontaine | Andre Cornellier | Maxime Opadtchii | Mariusz Sibiga | Norman Mikeal Berketa | Lev Prygunov | Mace Neufeld | Jennifer Seguin | Josh Kimmel | Evgeniy Lazarev | Sven-Ole Thorsen | Heinar Piller | Arthur Holden | Marcel Sabourin | Vie Nystrom | Joel Bissonnette | Kwasi Songui | Marina Lapina | Victoria Reuter | France Arbour | Lubomir Mykytiuk | Vladimir Radian | Gregory Hlady | Valeri Koudriavtsev | Victor Pedtrchenko | Willie Gault | Gary Gelfand | Arnold McCuller | Craig Hosking | Jerry Markbreit | John Eaves | J.J. Carle | David Vazquez | David Schaap | LisaGay Hamilton | Kirk Taylor | Jason Antoon | Lisa Bronwyn Moore | Aleksandr Belyavskiy | Jason Winer | Antonio David Lyons | Lennie Loftin | Mike McDougal | Matt Holland | Roger Tonry | Oleg Belkin | Constantine Gregory | Griffith Brewer | Jacklyn St. Pierre | Mariah Inger | Mark Antony Krupa | Joseph Antaki | Marcel Jeannin | Gerry Wood | Conrad Pla | Philip Akin | Henri Pardo | Irwin Dillion | Real Auger | Gilles Marsolais | Eric Steibi | Marie-Josée Colburn | Marie Matiko | Laraine Newman |

Jack Ryan, giovane analista, da poco entrato alla CIA, viene incaricato da WIlliam Cabot, capo del controspionaggio, di una missione particolarmente pericolosa: mettersi sulle tracce di una bomba atomica smarrita trent'anni prima dagli israeliani, rimasta inesplosa sottoterra, e ritrovata per caso in quei giorni. La bomba rappresenta un pericolo nucleare rivolto verso gli Stati Uniti, di cui minaccia la sicurezza. Assistito dal collega John Clark, Ryan segue varie piste, anche se i sospetti sono indirizzati verso la Russia. Mentre il reciproco scambio di accuse tra Stati Uniti e Russia prosegue e raggiunge livelli molto delicati, Ryan arriva ad individuare i veri colpevoli: si tratta di alcuni neonazisti europei, che appunto volevano ricreare il clima da guerra fredda per portare avanti un loro piano di sterminio e di dominio.

Approfondimenti

The Super Bowl scene takes place in Baltimore. The two teams playing in the game are portrayed by th [...] D
Wolfgang Petersen was offered the chance to direct, but declined. D
When the National Anthem is being sung before the Super Bowl, the portion we hear is from the fourth [...] D
Ben Affleck and Ciarán Hinds appeared in Justice League (2017). D
When shooting at the desert locations, several Panavision cameras reportedly malfunctioned when the [...] D
Dr. Elena Rhyzkov, a character mentioned in an early scene set in the CIA offices, was also a charac [...] D
The U.S. aircraft carrier shown in the movie is CVN-74, the U.S.S. John C. Stennis, identified by th [...] D
Ben Affleck was on the set of Pearl Harbor (2001) when he was offered the role of Jack Ryan. His co- [...] D
In this film, James Cromwell plays the President of the United States. He played fictitious Presiden [...] D
During the opening, a nuclear bomb is shown being rolled out to be loaded onto an Israeli A-4 Skyhaw [...] D
The high-altitude images of cities are faked. With Haifa, for example, the main street from the bay [...] D
John Beasley who played Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lasseter was frequently seen [...] D
Ken Jenkins played the character of United States Navy Adm. Pollack who was the commander of The Str [...] D
Matt Damon had a cameo as a waiter, but it was cut from the final movie. D
The film cast includes two Oscar winners: Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman; and three Oscar nominees: [...] D
The shot of the crippled aircraft carrier was originally intended to be an establishing shot before [...] D
The third Jack Ryan movie was originally planned to be based on Tom Clancy's "The Cardinal of the Kr [...] D
In the scene at the beginning, Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) and Mary Pat Foley (Lee Garlington) are talki [...] D
That same year, Philip Baker Hall and Bruce McGill also appeared in Path to War - L'altro Vietnam (2 [...] D
Despite starring a fledgling Jack Ryan, this movie was never meant to be a prequel to the other movi [...] D
Colm Feore (Olson) played Rob Behringer in Jack Ryan - L'iniziazione (2014). D
Real U.S. Marines, along with two Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters, were used for the [...] D
Phillip Noyce, director of Giochi di potere (1992) and Sotto il segno del pericolo (1994), was offer [...] D
(At around forty-four minutes) In a scene with his conspirators, Dressler (Sir Alan Bates) holds up [...] D
The sequence where the aircraft carrier U.S.S. John C. Stennis (CVN-74) is attacked and crippled by [...] D
The President would not be seated in the public area of the stands at a sporting event, certainly no [...] D
The speech that President Nimerov (Ciarán Hinds) dictates at the end was taken from a speech give [...] D
Ben Affleck worked again with Morgan Freeman in Gone Baby Gone (2007). Ben Affleck wrote and directe [...] D
The NAOC aircraft shown at Andrews AFB has the tail number 73167. This may have been digitally alter [...] D
The F-16's used to attack the Russian air base have the tail code "SP", indicating that they are fro [...] D
Denzel Washington turned down the role of William Cabot. D
The spray can that John Clark (Liev Schreiber) uses to cut through the chain-link fence is supposed [...] D
James Cromwell and Ron Rifkin previously appeared in L.A. Confidential (1997). D
Ben Affleck and Philip Baker Hall also appear in Argo (2012), where Affleck also plays an CIA analys [...] D
On one of the monitors during the aircraft carrier scenes, the display reads "09/23/02" and the city [...] D
Tom Clancy said that of the three actors he saw play the role of Jack Ryan, Ben Affleck was his favo [...] D
Colm Feore, Philip Baker Hall and Bruce McGill previously appeared in Insider - Dietro la verità [...] D
Morgan Freeman worked with three Batmans in his career. In Fuori dal tunnel (1988), he appeared with [...] D
Sven-Ole Thorsen, who plays the character Haft, played a different character (Russian COB) in Caccia [...] D
One of Ben Affleck's predecessors in the role of Jack Ryan was Alec Baldwin. In Pearl Harbor (2001), [...] D
When John Clark (Liev Schreiber) hacks into Olsen's (Colm Feore) computer, the sound used is that of [...] D
Director Phil Alden Robinson changed the villains from Islamic extremists (in the novel) to Neo-Nazi [...] D
According to the DVD director's commentary, the brief scene of intimacy between Jack Ryan (Ben Affle [...] D
At 6'3½", Ben Affleck is the tallest actor to play Jack Ryan. D
According to the director's DVD commentary, this was the first American movie unit (the second unit) [...] D
The nuclear bunker into which President Fowler (James Cromwell) and DCI William Cabot (Morgan Freema [...] D
The wintry Moscow scene was shot in the summer, with artificial snow. D
Final theatrical movie of Richard Marner (President Zorkin). D
Now Playing Podcast reviewed The Sum of All Fears. This film received two "recommends" and one "not [...] D
John Beasley's character General Lasseter who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was heav [...] D
Harrison Ford dropped out of reprising the role of Jack Ryan because he and director Phillip Noyce c [...] D
The facility on which they zoom in the satellite shot near the beginning of the movie is the actual [...] D
This is the first "Jack Ryan" movie in which James Earl Jones (Admiral James Greer) does not appear. [...] D
If the President had to be taken to Mt. Weather, he would not be taken by vehicle. Obeying traffic l [...] D
The title is paraphrased from a Sir Winston Churchill speech; "Why, you can take the most gallant sa [...] D
In the scene introducing John Clark, when he meets Cabot at the airfield in the rain, it was Liev Sc [...] D
This movie takes place in October 1973, and from September to November 2002. D
California property master Russell Bobbitt also played the Israeli pilot in the opening scene. The p [...] D
Ciarán Hinds (President Nemerov) who did not previously speak a word of Russian, learned all of h [...] D
The lines "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" are from The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again", wri [...] D
When Ben Affleck first arrived on the set, he told director Phil Alden Robinson, "Nice working with [...] D
At 29 years old, Ben Affleck is the youngest actor to play the role of Jack Ryan. D
President Fowler (James Cromwell) is not the same President who appeared in Sotto il segno del peric [...] D
When the newscast of the chemical attack is seen on-screen, the chemical mentioned is a version of t [...] D
Morgan Freeman played a ranking member of James Cromwell's Presidential administration. In Deep Impa [...] D
After having bought the 12-type fission bomb for $400 from the Arab digger (a nominal sum, for the d [...] D