John Krasinski is back as Jack Ryan. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War premiered globally on Amazon Prime Video on May 20, 2026, and by May 22 the film had climbed to No. 1 on Amazon Prime Video’s Top 10 movies chart in the United States, according to FlixPatrol.
FlixPatrol’s data also put Ghost War at No. 2 on Prime Video’s overall Top 10 chart in the United States on May 22. The film outperformed Regretting You, Despicable Me 4, Mechanic: Resurrection and The Equalizer on the U.S. Prime Video movies chart that day — an early sign of strong viewer interest in the new release.
The film is the streaming follow-up to the hit action series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, the role Krasinski inhabited for four years on television. Andrew Bernstein directed; the screenplay is credited to Aaron Rabin and Krasinski himself. Series veterans Wendell Pierce and Michael Kelly return, and Sienna Miller appears in the cast. The picture runs 1 hour 45 minutes and is rated R.
On screen, the story sends Jack Ryan to Dubai with Mike November to pick up an important package from a former MI6 operative. That operative, Liam Crown, is a former MI6 agent who was previously involved with Greer in Project Starling, a secret black-ops program that was shut down. The plot escalates to a plan to blow up Tower Bridge, and Emma Marlowe joins Ryan to stop Crown. In one scene, James Greer — played by Pierce — quips, "Where’s the fun in that?"
For fans of jack ryan movies the return is unmistakable: familiar faces, globe-trotting stakes and a direct tie back to the shadowy Project Starling thread. Michael Kelly appears as Mike November, a continuity bridge from the series, and the film’s action set pieces move the franchise back toward the theatrical-style confrontations its audience expects.
But the film’s early chart dominance sits uneasily next to critical reaction. Rotten Tomatoes lists a 48 percent critics’ score based on 29 reviews and a 47 percent audience rating — figures that underline a lukewarm reception from both reviewers and many viewers even as streams surged. That split — brisk viewing against mediocre scores — is the story’s friction point.
The immediate judgment is clear on the evidence at hand: Ghost War is a streaming success at launch. It drew enough viewers to top Prime Video’s U.S. movies chart within days of its May 20 premiere, a concrete result that matters to platforms built on immediate engagement. Yet the modest Rotten Tomatoes marks suggest the film may not translate that early curiosity into lasting acclaim.
What that means for the broader Jack Ryan franchise is straightforward: the film has proven it can still move an audience to press play, but it has not yet won over critics or, according to the audience score, a large portion of viewers. On balance, Ghost War’s debut is a commercial win and a critical disappointment — a split verdict that will define this entry in the Jack Ryan movies catalog as it settles into streaming rotation.
