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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
Jun 5, 1992 Wide
Dec 15, 1998
Paramount Home Video
All Critics (33) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (9) | DVD (24)
The movie kills most of the fun by watering down Clancy.
Director Phillip Noyce, who made the gripping thriller Dead Calm, has earned his directorial hack license here.
The film holds too few surprises to sustain our interest. All too often, we're ahead of the game.
I expected this one to be a little more cerebral and without the Indiana Jones ending.
Ford gives one of his most commanding performances outside of a Lucas production, establishing an action formula Ford would repeat...[Blu-Ray]
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.
Not bad. Pretty intense ending.
É sempre bom ver um filme de ação que se preocupa em desenvolver seus personagens.
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
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, 2006Super Reviewer
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