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Patriot Games
1992
His days as a CIA analyst behind him, Jack Ryan travels to London to vacation with his family. Outside Buckingham Palace, he is caught in the middle of an attack on a member of the royal family but manages to foil the attempt and dispatch one of the terrorists. The Irish terrorists vow revenge. Based on Tom Clancy's novel. Read more
| Starring | Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Sean Bean, Richard Harris |
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| Director | Phillip Noyce |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Patriot Games
His days as a CIA analyst behind him, Jack Ryan travels to London to vacation with his family. Outside Buckingham Palace, he is caught in the middle of an attack on a member of the royal family but manages to foil the attempt and dispatch one of the terrorists. The Irish terrorists vow revenge. Based on Tom Clancy's novel.
| Starring | Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Sean Bean, Richard Harris, Patrick Bergin, James Fox, Thora Birch, Samuel L. Jackson, Polly Walker, J.E. Freeman, James Earl Jones |
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| Director | Phillip Noyce |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 52 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 06 Nov 2000 Production year: 1992 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (4)
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Riding roughshod over the delicate Irish political situation, Phillip Noyce's film has ex-CIA man Harrison Ford rescuing peer James Fox from terrorist attack and being hounded for his trouble by the psychotic Sean Bean. But, apart from one brilliant sequence showing a remote-controlled desert massacre, Noyce's thriller (based on the novel by Tom Clancy) never gets its act together to provide the direct appeal all good action movies should have. Richard Harris's brief apologia for what's going on is lamely unconvincing.
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Muddled and melodramatic, it relies on nationalistic clichés and violent set-pieces rather than narrative coherence; it is certainly not for posterity.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Great great great!!!!!!!!!!!
When I first read Tom Clancy I pictured Harrison ford as Jack Ryan, low and behold they cast alec baldwin in the hunt for red october. realising thier mistake Harrison Ford was cast for this one. He is great believable. Good action, great story. Not as good as the book. but when are they.
I just want to know why you would get on a boat in Kent to go the Isle of Wight??? Definitly the best Tom Clancy work put to film. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
UP THERE WITH THE BEST
As far as thrillers go, this one has got to be up there with the best. It has everything - a very good and interesting story, excitement, tension, action and a believable plot. The film doesn't have any real 'dull' moments, and the added extra of true to life Irish politics makes the movie all so more enjoyable. The film kicks off in London with Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) on a trip to present and speak at a military college in the capacity of being an ex military commander and member of CIA. He is with his family when h witnesses on the streets of London an IRA terroist attack on a member of the royal family. His natural military instincts take over and he bursts into the terrorists grappling with a gun of one of them and then shoots dead a young irish terrorist. The brother of the dead terrorist played by a nasty Sean Bean is convicted of attempted murder and sentenced. On the way to jail his Irish colleagues rescue him and then he go hell bent on revenge to get Jack Ryan back for sooting his brother. The tension really builds and Ryan and his family are now targeted back in the USA, before a dramatic and nerve tingling finale! Well worth getting
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Pine to play Jack Ryan
- 15 Oct 2009
Star Trek star Chris Pine is to step into Ben Affleck and Harrison Ford's shoes after signing up to play beloved movie character Jack Ryan in a new movie. Pine becomes the fourth actor to portray the Tom Clancy character on the big screen behind Ford, Affleck and Alec Baldwin, who played Ryan in 1990's The Hunt For Red October. Ford played Ryan in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, while Affleck took over the role in 2002's The Sum of All Fears. Read more
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