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    Patriot Games (1992)

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    This follow-up to The Hunt for Red October (1990) sees Harrison Ford taking over the character created by Alec Baldwin.

    Ex-CIA analyst Jack Ryan is now a lecturer at the Naval Academy, devoted to his wife, Cathy (Anne Archer) and standard-Hollywood-issue adorable but precocious daughter, Sally (Thora Birch).

    In London for a conference, he foils an IRA attempt on the life of a Royal cousin (played gawkishly by James Fox as a caricatured amalgam of all Royal cousins of the male line). The cousin, Lord Holmes, is very grateful and gives him a Sir-ship (the knighting ceremony takes place in his own living room!).

    But the IRA man (Sean Bean), whose brother was killed in the fracas, now has it in for him.

    Pursuing Ryan across the Atlantic (via the Libyan desert), he resorts to mean tactics. Cathy and Sally are threatened, and Ryan becomes the acceptable face of violence and irresistible manipulator of heartstrings as protector of his family.

    Though proficient in maintaining tension and excitement, and graced – if grimly – by strong acting from Harrison and Bean, more might have been expected in the way of integrity from Australian Phillip Noyce, who began his directorial career in the 1970s with Newsfront (1978).

    The most startling and fascinating images are blurred ones via satellite of the taking out of a terrorist training camp in the African desert – an operation that Ryan watches cold-bloodedly from the bunker at CIA HQ in Virginia. The general tone of the film is that this is the approved temperature.

    The ins and outs of Irish politics (or anyone’s) are naturally ignored to serve the time-honoured formula of good guys vs. bad guys.

    That the good guy is the CIA and the CIA version of killing is even more impressive than the IRA’s just goes to show: Glamour, nothing else, is the aim of the game.

    Committed, loving family man Jack Ryan throws himself into shoot-outs, hand to hand combat, car chases and a storm-tossed speedboat finale – all the time dressed in a suit and tie.

    It’s a thrilling movie, but if you stopped to think about anything in the film, your IQ would fall out of your ear.

    Based on a novel by Tom Clancy (as was Red October).

    Jack Ryan
    Harrison Ford
    Cathy Ryan
    Anne Archer
    Kevin O’Donnell
    Patrick Bergin
    Sean Miller
    Sean Bean
    Sally Ryan
    Thora Birch
    Lord Holmes
    James Fox
    Robby
    Samuel L. Jackson
    Annette
    Polly Walker
    Marty Cantor
    J.E. Freeman
    Admiral Greer
    James Earl Jones
    Paddy O’Neil
    Richard Harris
    Dennis Cooley
    Alex Norton
    Watkins
    Hugh Fraser
    Inspector Highland
    David Threlfall
    Owens
    Alun Armstrong
    Sissy
    Berlinda Tolbert
    Barrister Atkinson
    Hugh Ross
    Lord Justice
    Gerald Sim
    Ashley
    Thomas Russell
    Jimmy O’Reardon
    Jonathan Ryan
    Charlie Dugan
    Andrew Connolly
    Paddy Boy
    Karl Hayden
    Lady Holmes
    Claire Oberman
    Young Holmes
    Oliver Stone
    Rose
    Ellen Geer
    Winter
    John Lafayette
    Ferro
    Shaun Duke (as Duke Moosekian)
    Spiva
    Fritz Sperberg
    Dr Shapiro
    Philip Levien
    FBI Agent Shaw
    Jesse Goins

    Director
    Phillip Noyce

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