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Patriot Games Details

1992 Certificate 15
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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
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
Director Phillip Noyce
Studio PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 52 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Collections The Tom Clancy Collection
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
  • Critics' reviews (4) of Patriot Games

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    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.

    • Radio Times
  • Muddled and melodramatic, it relies on nationalistic clichés and violent set-pieces rather than narrative coherence; it is certainly not for posterity.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    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 ... more

      • A customer from Orpington Kent
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Typically Good

    Good Film, Harrision Ford plays another good role. A goo family watch.

      • A customer from Cambridge, UK
  • News and features

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    Clear and Present Danger

    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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    • 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. ...