Patriot Games (film)
1992
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Mar 2, 1990 · "The Hunt for Red October" has more fun by suggesting how easily men can go wrong, how false assumptions can seem seductive and how enormous consequences can sometimes hang by slender threads. Ryan's knowledge of Ramius' personality, for example, upon which so much depends, is based almost entirely on one occasion when they dined at the same table.
Perfectly cast and packed with suspense, The Hunt for Red October is an old-fashioned submarine thriller with plenty of firepower to spare. Based on the popular Tom Clancy novel, this suspenseful ...
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- John Mctiernan
- PG
- Sean Connery
Our review: Parents say ( 2 ): Kids say ( 11 ): THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER keeps tension and suspense front and center. The plot builds nicely, keeping you guessing as it moves quickly along. The tight writing and strong acting make much of essentially watching a chess game in which players try to guess the others' next moves.
- John Mctiernan
- Andrea Beach
- Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, James Earl Jones
Sep 23, 2018 · The 1990 first film in the series, The Hunt for Red October, was shot on good old 35 mm film, and the film has been rescanned and mastered in 4K, which has been used here for this Ultra HD Blu-ray release. The disc presents a native 3840 x 2160p resolution image in the film's original theatrical aspect ratio of widescreen 2.4:1.
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- UHD Blu-Ray
This movie tells the story of Captain Marko Ramius (Sir Sean Connery), the skipper of the Soviet Union's newest nuclear submarine, the "Red October." Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) of the C.I.A. gets involved in a tense, tangled hunt for this sub, when Ramius defects, taking the "Red October" with him. The story is an action packed techno-thriller.
- John Mctiernan
- 2 min
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 11, 2015. David Sterritt Christian Science Monitor. Like the nuclear submarine it's named after, The Hunt for Red October is big, shiny, and expensive. But ...
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James Earl Jones, Sam Neill and Courtney B Vance are on hand. Based on the 1984 Tom Clancy novel, "The Hunt for Red October" (1990) is a well-done Cold War thriller and the first of currently five movies involving the character of Jack Ryan. The next two are "Patriot Games" (1992) and "Clear and Present Danger" (1994) featuring Harrison Ford in ...
