Ben Affleck doesn't look like a Jack Ryan, but they got a much worse John Clark. I'm mean Liev Schriber as a ruthless assassin???
Rather liked Schriber as Clark myself. Professional, no remorse. A little like the Clark of the books. Sure as heck beats heroine addict in a pimp suit that was DaFoe. But some folks loved Defoe as Clark, I'll never know why. Just looked like he was still lost on the set of Platoon the whole time.
Might be that I've never seen Schriber in anything else, and that I'd read the books before the movies.
-Al
I was so disappointed by the casting of Defoe. When I read Clancy I imagine the young Baldwin as Ryan, actually Alec Baldwin and Ryan should be the same age depending on the book you read, and Tom Berrenger as Clark. I also imagined John Leguizamo as Ding, but they got a suitable guy for the movie.