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The Hunt for Red October
Before Harrison Ford assumed the mantle of playing Tom Clancy's
Jack Ryan hero in Patriot Games, Alec Baldwin took a swing at the
character in this John McTiernan film and hit one to the fence.
If less instantly sympathetic than Ford, Baldwin is in some
respects more interesting and nuanced as Ryan, and drawing
comparisons between both actors' performances can make for some
interesting postmovie discussion. That aside, The Hunt for Red
October stands alone as a uniquely exciting adventure with a
fantastic costar: Sean Connery as a Russian nuclear submarine
captain attempting to defect to the West on his ship. Ryan must
figure out his true motives for approaching the U.S. McTiernan
(Predator, Die Hard) made an exceptionally handsome movie here
with action sequences that really do take one's breath away.
--Tom Keogh
Patriot Games
Let's see--he's been Han Solo in three films and Indiana Jones in
three more. So why shouldn't Harrison Ford take on a new
continuing character in Tom Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan? In
this film, directed by Phillip Noyce, Ford picked up the baton
when Alec Baldwin, who played Ryan in The Hunt for Red October,
opted for a Broadway role instead. In this film, Ryan and his
family are on vacation when Ryan saves a member of the British
royal family from attack by Irish terrorists. The next thing he
knows, the Ryan clan has been targeted by the same terrorists,
who invade his Maryland home. The film can't shed all of Clancy's
lumbering prose, or his techno-dweeb fascination with
satellites and the like. But no one is better than Ford at
righteous heroism--and Sean Bean makes a suitably snakey villain.
--Marshall Fine
Clear and Present Danger
The third installment in the cinematic incarnation of Tom
Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan and the second starring Harrison
Ford, this follow-up to Patriot Games is a more complex,
rewarding, and bolder film than its predecessor.
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The Hunt for Red October
Before Harrison Ford assumed the mantle of playing Tom Clancy's
Jack Ryan hero in Patriot Games, Alec Baldwin took a swing at the
character in this John McTiernan film and hit one to the fence.
If less instantly sympathetic than Ford, Baldwin is in some
respects more interesting and nuanced as Ryan, and drawing
comparisons between both actors' performances can make for some
interesting postmovie discussion. That aside, The Hunt for Red
October stands alone as a uniquely exciting adventure with a
fantastic costar: Sean Connery as a Russian nuclear submarine
captain attempting to defect to the West on his ship. Ryan must
figure out his true motives for approaching the U.S. McTiernan
(Predator, Die Hard) made an exceptionally handsome movie here
with action sequences that really do take one's breath away.
--Tom Keogh
Patriot Games
Let's see--he's been Han Solo in three films and Indiana Jones
in three more. So why shouldn't Harrison Ford take on a new
continuing character in Tom Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan? In
this film, directed by Phillip Noyce, Ford picked up the baton
when Alec Baldwin, who played Ryan in The Hunt for Red October,
opted for a Broadway role instead. In this film, Ryan and his
family are on vacation when Ryan saves a member of the British
royal family from attack by Irish terrorists. The next thing he
knows, the Ryan clan has been targeted by the same terrorists,
who invade his Maryland home. The film can't shed all of Clancy's
lumbering prose, or his techno-dweeb fascination with
satellites and the like. But no one is better than Ford at
righteous heroism--and Sean Bean makes a suitably snakey villain.
--Marshall Fine
Clear and Present Danger
The third installment in the cinematic incarnation of Tom
Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan and the second starring Harrison
Ford, this follow-up to Patriot Games is a more complex,
rewarding, and bolder film than its predecessor. Ford returns as
Ryan, this time embroiled in a failed White House bid to wipe out
a Colombian drug cartel and cover up the mess. The script, by
Clancy and John Milius (Red Dawn), has an air of true adventure
about it as Ryan places himself in harm's way to extract covert
soldiers abandoned in a Latin American jungle. There are a couple
of remarkable set pieces expertly handled by Patriot Games
director Phillip Noyce, especially a shocking scene involving an
ambush on Ryan's car in an alley. The supporting cast is superb,
including Willem Dafoe as the soldiers' leader, Henry Czerny as
Ryan's enemy at the CIA, Joaquim de Almeida as a smooth-talking
villain, Ann Magnuson as an unwitting confederate in
international crime, and James Earl Jones as Ryan's dying boss.
The DVD release has a widescreen presentation, theatrical
trailer, closed captioning, optional French soundtrack, and
optional Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh