“Without Remorse” (**1/2 out of four) was a slick if overly generic adaptation of Tom Clancy’s spy novel about a navy-seal (Michael B. Jordan) whose family is murdered and he is left for dead; he subsequently finds out that his entire unit was targeted and assassinated and he goes on a rampage gunning for revenge in a conspiracy that goes all the way to the political top (Guy Pearce, Lucy Russell, and others). Commanding and gripping at first then starts to lose its way as it wanders into a mechanical and routine political pulp melodrama which feels “Bourne” again. Jordan is first-rate as usual and makes this worth watching. Not up to the craft and polish of the Harrison Ford/Clancy adaptations but an improvement over the last adaptation with Chris Pine.

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