Tom Clancy’s John Clark finally gets the big-screen treatment, and it’s Michael B. Jordan going full one-man vengeance machine in the snow.

Jordan’s Senior Chief John Kelly starts as the ultimate SEAL: loving husband, lethal operator, ice in his veins. Then Russian hit squad murders his pregnant wife in their own home, and the switch flips. What follows is 90 minutes of pure, unfiltered payback: underwater knife fights, burning down safehouses, and a final Moscow showdown that feels like Taken and Bourne had a baby raised on steroids.

Guy Pearce slithers as the shady secretary, Jodie Turner-Smith is the badass Lt. Commander who keeps trying to pull Kelly back from the edge, and Jamie Bell’s rogue CIA ghost adds just enough paranoia. The action is brutal and practical: that freeway ambush in the rain, the apartment breach with the pregnant pause before all hell breaks loose, and the third-act “one mag, one target, no mercy” rampage is peak Jordan rage.

It’s not subtle, it’s not deep, and yeah, the conspiracy gets a little cartoonish, but when Kelly finally whispers “You should’ve let me die with them” before lighting the world on fire? Chills.

Turn your brain off, crank the volume, and let MBJ remind you why revenge still tastes so sweet.

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