Without Remorse movie review: Michael B Jordan saves this conventional action-thriller

Without Remorse movie review: It is a good thing that the film is a star vehicle for Michael B Jordan, as he gets plenty of screen time. His character is not particularly well-written, but he makes it more compelling than it has any right to be.

One might reasonably expect that a movie titled Without Remorse and claiming to be based on the eponymous book by Tom Clancy would, at least to a certain degree, follow the said book’s plot. But that is not the case. This scribe admits ignorance of the source material, but the choice is still confounding, for whatever the quality of the book, it likely could not have been this generic.

Directed by Stefano Sollima, Without Remorse is headlined by Michael B Jordan, who plays a blunt US Navy Seal operative called John Kelly on a quest for vengeance after his pregnant wife is murdered by what look like Russian nationals.