Patriot Games Reviews

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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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Critics' reviews (4) of Patriot Games
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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.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
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
- Posted 02 Mar 2006
"...Sleek....Ford's restrained performance is just right..."
- New York Times
- Posted 11 Mar 2005
Most helpful members' reviews (3) of Patriot Games
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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.
- - A customer from Orpington Kent
  - Posted 10 Sep 2005 15:20
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Loved it!!!

I absolutley love this film and have seen it about twenty times now and am still not bored. Sean Bean and Harrison Ford are great and little Thora Birch is one hell of an actress. I totally recommend this film to everyone!
- - Julie from Cardiff, Wales
  - Posted 21 Jun 2005 19:25
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Ecxellent thriller

Yet another blockbuster from Harrison Ford. Good performances from Sean Bean and the little girl too.
- - A customer from Telford, Shropshire
  - Posted 23 Jul 2006 10:33
Most recent members' reviews (2) of Patriot Games
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Classic

A good Harrison Ford movie with him in one of his first class straight rolls
- - The White Rabbit from a burrow in Gloucestershire
  - Posted 02 Apr 2006 19:05
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Loved it!!!

I absolutley love this film and have seen it about twenty times now and am still not bored. Sean Bean and Harrison Ford are great and little Thora Birch is one hell of an actress. I totally recommend this film to everyone!
- - Julie from Cardiff, Wales
  - Posted 21 Jun 2005 19:25

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.
- - A customer from Orpington Kent
  - Posted 10 Sep 2005 15:20
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Loved it!!!

I absolutley love this film and have seen it about twenty times now and am still not bored. Sean Bean and Harrison Ford are great and little Thora Birch is one hell of an actress. I totally recommend this film to everyone!
- - Julie from Cardiff, Wales
  - Posted 21 Jun 2005 19:25
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Ecxellent thriller

Yet another blockbuster from Harrison Ford. Good performances from Sean Bean and the little girl too.
- - A customer from Telford, Shropshire
  - Posted 23 Jul 2006 10:33
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

patriotic

this is a classic film. sean bean shines as the irish dude out for blood. it had me hooked from about 2 minutes in right up till the end. really good and worth a look
- - A customer from good old england
  - Posted 21 Feb 2004 23:29
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
- - A customer from manchester
  - Posted 09 Jan 2006 18:02
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Classic

A good Harrison Ford movie with him in one of his first class straight rolls
- - The White Rabbit from a burrow in Gloucestershire
  - Posted 02 Apr 2006 19:05
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Typically Good

Good Film, Harrision Ford plays another good role. A goo family watch.
- - A customer from Cambridge, UK
  - Posted 06 Dec 2006 09:18
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Harrison Ford at his best.

Jack Ryan is a retired CIA operative who prevents an Irish terrorist organization’s plan to assassinate a major British political figure. One of the terrorist seeks revenge on Ryan for the death of his brother, now begins the vengeance. One of the best action, thrillers I have ever seen. Watch Clear and Present Danger Next. I believe that The Hunt for the Red October (another good film) precedes Patriot Games I think Harrison Ford plays a better Jack Ryan.
- - Cornetto from Lancaster
  - Posted 10 Apr 2007 22:06
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Classic

Loved the Book --loved the movie
- - David Needham from Pickering
  - Posted 18 Nov 2007 10:59
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

That's what I'm talkin about!

Very good movie, proper action movie. Great stuff from Ford. Enough said.
- - A customer from Hamilton
  - Posted 25 Feb 2008 13:37

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Critics' reviews (4)
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
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
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
- Posted 02 Mar 2006
"...Sleek....Ford's restrained performance is just right..."
- New York Times
- Posted 11 Mar 2005
"...Lively..."
- USA Today
- Posted 11 Mar 2005

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