Rating: R
Genre:
Action
Theatrical Release: 06/05/1992(USA)
Release Date: 03/22/2003
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DTS/DD2
Run Time: 116 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Not For Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
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 breaks loose. Author
Tom Clancy himself bemoaned the liberties taken with his novel in the final sequences; the picture scored with audiences, however, and soon inspired a followup,
A Clear and Present Danger (1994), also starring
Ford.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide