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Patriot Games (1992)

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Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 29
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Critic Reviews: 6
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In Patriot Games, Harrison Ford plays former CIA agent Jack Ryan, taking over from Alec Baldwin, who had played author Tom Clancy's brainy protagonist in Hunt for Red October. This time around, Ryan foils an attempted assassination, thereby incurring the wrath of a maniacal Irish radical (Sean Bean). After seemingly neutralizing the villains, and deciding to celebrate the occasion with his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter (Thora Birch), everything appears to be back to normal; then all hell

R, 1 hr. 57 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Phillip Noyce

In Theaters: Jun 5, 1992 Wide

On DVD: Dec 15, 1998

Paramount Home Video

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Cast

Harrison Ford
Jack Ryan
Anne Archer
Dr. Cathy Ryan
Patrick Bergin
Kevin O'Donnell
Sean Bean
Sean Miller
Thora Birch
Sally Ryan
James Fox
Lord Holmes
Samuel L. Jackson
Robby Jackson
Polly Walker
Annette
J.E. Freeman
Marty Cantor
James Earl Jones
Admiral James Greer
Richard Harris
Paddy O'Neil
Alex Norton
Dennis Cooley
Hugh Fraser
Watkins
Alun Armstrong
Owens
Allison Barron
CIA Analyst
Roger Blake
Constable
Keith Campbell
Ned Clark
Martin Cochrane
Constable
Andrew Connolly
Charlie Dugan
Franklin Dam
Midshipman
Kim Delgado
TV Reporter
Tim Dutton
Constable
Jeff Gardner
Midshipman
Ruben Garfias
Anesthesiologist
Ellen Geer
Rose
Jesse D. Goins
FBI Agent Shaw
Karl Hayden
Paddy Boy
Stephen Held
FBI Rifleman
Gregory Paul Jackson
Taxi Driver
Ivan Kane
TV Reporter
Branda Lynn Klemme
Secretary
John La Fayette
Winter
Philip Levien
Dr. Shapiro
Jeff Mandon
Marine Guard
Rebecca Mayhook
School Girl
Duke Moosekian
Ferro
P.H. Moriarty
Court Guard
Claire Oberman
Lady Holmes
Eric Paul
Marine Guard
Theodore Raimi
CIA Technician
Hugh Ross
Barrister Atkinson
Russell Thomas
Ashley
Jonathan Ryan
Jimmy O'Reardon
Pamela Saxon
Midshipman
John Shepard
FBI Helicopter Pilot
Gerald Sim
Lord Justice
Fritz Sperberg
Spiva
Leah Tabassi
Midshipman
David Threlfall
Inspector Highland
Lester T. Tillery
Midshipman
Berlinda Tolbert
Sissy
Fred Toma
Arab Soldier
Pip Torrens
First Aide
Tom Watt
Electrician
Michael Ryan Way
Avery
Bonnie Webster
Midshipman
Debora Weston
CNN Reporter
Michael Francis Kelly
O'Neil's Bodyguard
Oliver Stone
Young Holmes
Cathy Sandrich
Ros Hubbard
Amanda Mackey-Johnson
Bob Gunton
Interviewer
John Hubbard

Critic Reviews for Patriot Games

All Critics (33) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (9) | DVD (24)

The movie kills most of the fun by watering down Clancy.

May 12, 2001 Comment

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

Director Phillip Noyce, who made the gripping thriller Dead Calm, has earned his directorial hack license here.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

The film holds too few surprises to sustain our interest. All too often, we're ahead of the game.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Hal Hinson

Washington Post

Top Critic

I expected this one to be a little more cerebral and without the Indiana Jones ending.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

Ford gives one of his most commanding performances outside of a Lucas production, establishing an action formula Ford would repeat...[Blu-Ray]

August 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews

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Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews Source: Groucho Reviews

The film's dominant motif is that of revenge. In a key scene, the wife tells her husband (Harrison Ford): You get him. I don't care what you have to do, just get him." From that point on, the film becomes the story of a nuclear family in imminent danger.

October 7, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

Not bad. Pretty intense ending.

April 9, 2004 Comment

Alex Sandell

Juicy Cerebellum

� sempre bom ver um filme de a��o que se preocupa em desenvolver seus personagens.

March 9, 2004 Comment

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

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Of all the Tom Clancy adaptations, Patriot Games has got to be one of my personal favorites. The films story, for me has to be the best idea that Clancy had written on paper. The IRA seeks to assassinate a member of the Royal Family, and Jack Ryan stops the assassination attempt and in the midst kills the brother of

April 9, 2011

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

Harrison Ford's first Jack Ryan movie is a convincing action thriller. While some parts feel a bit simplified, probably even more so when compared to the novel, the film still flows perfectly and has you on the edge of your seat, especially during the really exciting showdown. One might say with a cast of names like

June 14, 2006

Jens S.

Super Reviewer

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