John, having taken lives and delayed countless flights, goes to prison, but nonetheless demands to be put on the team to kill the man responsible for his pain - Viktor Rykov (Brett Gelman). Roger Moore wouldn’t have risked soiling his pristine white tuxedo with blood and soot.

He slams into the SUV of a Russian boss, douses the car in gasoline, sets it ablaze and … hops in? Yes, John interrogates the slimeball in a smoky, vehicular oven, and then shoots him in the throat. The best stop on his vigilante justice tour comes early on, outside Dulles Airport. John survives, and goes into full Charles Bronson-in-“Death Wish” mode, murdering anybody with even tangential involvement in the crime without government approval. The cold-blooded baddies start by killing the wife and unborn child of Navy SEAL John Kelly (Jordan the character’s name change is explained) during an assassination attempt on multiple SEALs on US soil. Sadly, though, these lame-o Russians are no longer bursting with color and personality like St. Now, old-fashioned Russian foils are back in “Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse,” an overly familiar revenge film that bears no resemblance to the original novel and stars Michael B. Remember Famke Janssen’s violently insatiable Xenia Onatopp in the 1995 James Bond film “GoldenEye”? Fantastic. They made bang-up movie villains during the Cold War and in its immediate aftermath. Given the news cycle, I never thought I’d miss the Russians so much.

Without Remorse by Tom Clancy