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In risking his own life multiple times to stop the IRA from kidnapping/assassinating a member of the royal family, no Irish-American has ever cucked themselves harder than Jack Ryan in this movie. Not only does he interfere in a legitimate military operation but has the audacity to be so indignant about the whole thing he joins the CIA.

This entire film and the novel it's based on is peevish Catholic boy Tom Clancy's attempt to convince the WASP and Mormon psychos at Langley or whoever kept giving him those Navy insignia baseball hats, that he was "one of the good ones."

Polly Walker is *fire emoji* in this movie though.

"Oh hey look it's Sean Bean, I bet he's gonna die!"
- the asshole watching the movie (me)

Fully functional albeit fairly unexceptional espionage thriller.

I do love watching a real spy over an action hero any day, but making Jack Ryan out to be a "CIA analyst" feels a bit dishonest when we begin and end with big shoot 'em ups.

There was plenty that I really liked about the movie, like some of the cinematography and Harrison Ford's charisma, but the story suffered from a severe case of Screenwriter's Convenience. I'll be the last person to call out "plot holes" or anything like that, but all the characters' motivations felt a bit artificial.

Yet there's a pretty logical and well paced flow to the story and the action which makes this a thoroughly watchable little flick.

young Sean Bean is somehow extremely handsome while also looking like he’s been put through the CGI de-aging they used in The Irishman

I thought I’d like this more than The Hunt for Red October but it really was just a run-of-the-mill action film. Other than a sudden spleen removal, I could tell exactly what was going to happen the whole time. Still, there’s Sean Bean.

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watching this is like wearing the most comfortable sweater you own while eating a warm chocolate chip cookie. total cinematic comfort.

Heavy on the glowering political superficialities, but light on serious political intrigue, "Patriot Games" is a solidly made, narratively wanting action-drama. Phillip Noyce's adaptation of Tom Clancy's novel finds CIA analyst, Jack Ryan, on the radar of some IRA baddies who wish to do-away with the former Navy man and his family. The story moves at a deliberate pace, intent more on offering revenge beats when it gets cooking than compelling geo-political arcs. With Harrison Ford as Ryan, leading an eye-popping cast, however, Noyce is able to wring high drama and excitement out of the story. All in all, this is earnest-toned and handsomely constructed work that serves as an effective re-introduction to its protagonist.

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Wow, might as well call this Star Wars from an alternate universe with this cast. Harrison Ford, James Earl Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, the Star Wars franchise is all over this film. It was fun to see all these talents although Jackson and JEJ had small roles.

For an action movie, this does it’s job. There’s an actual concrete and realistic storyline, which is hard to find in action films nowadays. It was entertaining and well paced. Jack Ryan was a very likeable character and they really made you feel for him in certain scenes.

The fight choreography and special effects are atrocious at points, a product of the time this was made. But nonetheless this did exactly what I wanted an action film to do.

Rating: B+

jack ryan is an imperialist running dog who pathetically begs to rejoin his langley masters after sticking his nose where it doesn't belong in the struggle for a united ireland. ya hate to see it

Oddly, this movie seems to take place a VERY long time after Hunt for Red October (not even sure if they’re connected but just noticed).
I like that this film gets more personal, being a revenge thriller but a more subtle one.

Sean Bean dies

Strange. Harrison Ford is obviously effortlessly charming snd disarming, and Sean Bean plays a good enough boogeyman in the limited screentime he’s given, the motivations on both sides are succinct as to not drag down the pace and are completely understandable motivations for both characters. And yet, all that results in a big fat “meh” for me. Not complex enough drama, not enough action, just period. It’s ok, and that’s about all it is.

I wonder if anyone even knows what the IRA is any more?

Pretty uneventful and you never feel the hero is in that much danger.

Sean Bean sells his character though, and I bought it, the story just is a little meh . .

There was a time when hearing Han Solo and Indiana Jones drop an f bomb was the most shocking event of my life.

Roast of James Horner

Horner's Score: Actually pretty good, he has some tense building orchestral music along with some impressive new age chanting that he probably reused for The Devil's Own

The Movie: I was massively disappointing, I had good hopes for this film, cause I was expecting this to be a kidnapping/revenge film but then the film remembered "oh yeah we're a spy thriller film from the guy that Ubisoft keeps milking". And my interests just weren't having any of it; although the house invasion and boat chase saved it slightly. Needed about 20 minutes cut.

Also Ford has a pregnant wife cause of course

Sean Bean ya bastard

Harrison Ford is my favorite. Sean Bean might be the most classic 90s villain ❤️

An early instance of a franchise reboot, this version of Jack Ryan is no longer a weirdo analyst wonk nerd but an angry, righteous avenger who acts on blind rage.

A dour, humorless ho-hum political thriller.

well-crafted bore