Mistakes reveal areas of life that need revision. Learning from a mistake is often the catalyst for actual change to happen.

No one is perfect, but people can change if they want to. If someone is genuinely remorseful, besides admitting their mistake and apologizing, they will attempt not to repeat the same error. There should be a genuine change that occurs in this areaĤ – They avoid repeating the same mistake.Explain how they plan to change in this area.Admit the wrong done that caused you pain.All is well and peaceful in fact, as John is retiring from the SEALs to take a lucrative and relatively safe gig doing private security. Nevertheless, the mission is a qualified success, with John and his colleagues gunning down numerous anonymous henchmen.Ĭut to a few months later, with John and his eight-months-pregnant wife Pam (Lauren London) hosting a cookout at their Washington, D.C., area home, which is a REALLY nice spread and looks more like something a wealthy senator might own. We know there’s a problem with this mission from the get-go because it’s telegraphed via the duplicitous and smarmy CIA operative Robert Ritter (the chameleonic Jamie Bell, excellent as always), who smirks and calls John “sweetheart” and brushes off his concerns, even after it’s determined the bad guys aren’t soldiers, they’re ex-Russian military turned mercenaries and they don’t play by any established rules of war. One assumes the intention was to replicate the true chaos inherent in such situations, but that doesn’t necessarily make for clearly defined cinema.

The ensuing rescue mission/shootout is indicative of many of the impressively choreographed but murky action sequences that permeate “Without Remorse,” where there’s lots of shouting and shooting and explosions and carnage, but it’s often difficult to keep up with the proceedings as we squint through the dust and darkness.

We have seen John Kelly as a supporting player in previous film adaptations of Clancy books (Willem Dafoe played him in “Clear and Present Danger” in 1994, and Liev Schreiber in “The Sum of All Fears” in 2002), but now John is front and center as the senior chief of an elite team of Navy SEALs sent into Syria to extract a CIA agent ostensibly being held captive by the Syrian Army. That’s exactly the kind of cliché, er, character, Jordan portrays here.

Without remorse