THE SUM OF ALL FEARS (2002)
Jack Ryan: "General, the President is basing his decisions on some really bad information right now. And if you shut me out, your family, and my family, and twenty-five million other families will be dead in thirty minutes."
CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) must thwart the plans of a neo-Nazi terrorist faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the USA and Russia's newly elected president by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore.
And they say American football isn't as exciting as ours?
Affleck - playing Ryan as a nerdy, singleton - was too young for the role after it had been taken by grizzled veterans Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin. It didn't help that the film was set in the present.
