History Film / TheSumOfAllFears

* AdaptationalNameChange: Andrey Narmonov was renamed "Nemerov" in this movie.

--->'''Monceau''': "In light of the week's events, I am grown uncomfortable with this plan. So I must beg your leave, gentlemen."
--->'''Dressler''': "Herr Haft will hep you out."
--->'''Haft''': "Your scarf, monsieur." (''strangles him'')

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!!The movie contains the following tropes:

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* ExternalCombustion: Subverted. Dressler is smart enough to have his bodyguard start the car first, and the poor guy obviously knows why. This is why the assassin wires the bomb into the cigarette lighter in the back seat, since Dressler is a chain smoker.

''The Sum of All Fears'' is a 2002 movie adaptation of the [[Literature/TheSumOfAllFears novel of the same name]] by Creator/TomClancy.

* {{Irony}}: A Neo-Nazi organisation is in possession of a nuclear weapon originally crafted by the Israelis.

* NotSoDifferent: In a [[TheWarOnTerror post-9/11 film]], it's very [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]] for a US President to criticize the Russian President for [[DoubleStandard taking military action abroad against terrorists that target a person's homeland]]. The point of the film is to demonstrate how, [[HarsherInHindsight in the aftermath of a terrorist attack, terrible things start to seem reasonable.]]

** Dubinin is assassinated by Clark for his role on the conspiracy.

** The deception of a demilitarisation treaty between USA and Russia at the end of the film, meanwhile the audience is treated to a montage of [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge the perpetrators getting hunted down and mercilessly killed by the two countries' secret services]], resembles [[Film/TheGodfather Michael Corleone's purge of the rivals five families meanwhile he stands at the altar as the child's godfather in the christening of his sister’s baby.]]

* BezerkButton: Russian leader Nemerov flips out when the U.S. president mentions Russian atrocities committed in Chechnya.

* BerzerkButton: Russian leader Nemerov flips out when the U.S. president mentions Russian atrocities committed in Chechnya.

* {{Expy}}: {{CIA}} director William Cabot is a similar substitute for Admiral Greer from ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober''; both are African-American {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s with high clearance who introduce Ryan into decision-making circles. Cabot is more [[CynicalMentor cynical]].

* ActionDuo: Jack Ryan and John Clark during the mission in Ukraine. The former is just a CIA analist whith no military training while the latter is the more badass-like guy.

* MythologyGag[=/=]ContinuityCameo: The [[AdaptationExpansion absent in the novel]] Tupoloev Backfire attack on the U.S. carrier is transplanted from Clancy's ''Literature/RedStormRising'', which technically is not part of the Ryanverse.

* AdaptationalHeroism: President Fowler is nowhere near as unpleasant as his book counterpart. He still makes rash decisions, but they are based on logical reasons given to him by his advisers. In the book, Fowler ends up resigning from office are nearly nuking an innocent city for revenge, while here, he ends the crisis when given a chance and later enacts anti-nuclear weapons treaties with Russia.

** The deception of a demilitarisation treaty between USA and Russia at the end of the film, meanwhile the audience is treated to a montage of [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge the perpetrators getting hunted down and mercilessly killed by the two countries' secret services]] resembles [[Film/TheGodfather Michael Corleone's purge of the rivals five families meanwhile he stands at the altar as the child's godfather in the christening of his sister’s baby.]]

* ResignationsNotAccepted: One of the conspirators disagrees with the neo-Nazi murderous plan and attempts a gentleman's exit. He soon learns it is not an option.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: While the Neonazi terrorists are very undeniably the bad guys in their attempts to nuke a city to spark a full-scale nuclear war, the US and Russian governments are shown to act very morally ambiguous themselves. Case in point: [[spoiler:As the deception gets cleared up and a demilitarisation treaty is signed at the end of the film, we are treated to a montage of [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge the perpetrators getting hunted down and mercilessly killed by the two countries' secret services]]]].

** If in the novel Nemerov was a UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev's {{expy}}, in the movie he is a UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin's expy, and his predecessor, President Zorkin, was a UsefulNotes/BorisYeltsin's expy.

Directed by Phil Alden Robinson, the movie stars Creator/BenAffleck as Jack Ryan, with a supporting cast including Creator/MorganFreeman, Bridget Moynahan, Creator/JamesCromwell, and Creator/LievSchreiber. It is notable for changing the villains from Arab terrorists to Neo-Nazis while forwarding the timeline to 2003. It also re-envisions Ryan as a young analyst in a form of ContinuityReboot[=/=]{{Prequel}} from the previous movies, and has him dealing with his first foray into the real inner workings of the CIA.

* AdaptationaNameChange: Andrey Narmonov was renamed "Nemerov" in this movie.