Patriot Games (1992)

Directed by

Phillip Noyce

Genre

drama film, action film, techno-thriller, crime film, spy film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 1,839 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Jack Ryan is a former CIA analyst who gets caught up in a conflict with a splinter group of the IRA after he intervenes in an attack on a member of the British royal family. The terrorists then threaten his own family, forcing him to take action to protect them.

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What happens

Patriot Games is a 1992 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce and based on Tom Clancy's 1987 novel of the same name. It is a sequel to the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October, part of a series of films featuring Clancy's character Jack Ryan, but with different actors in the leading roles. Harrison Ford stars as Jack Ryan and Anne Archer as his wife, and James Earl Jones reprises his role as Admiral James Greer. The cast also includes Sean Bean, Patrick Bergin, Thora Birch, Samuel L. Jackson, James Fox, and Richard Harris. During production, Clancy repeatedly voiced his displeasure with his understanding of the script, in particular details of technical items to be shown onscreen and the 49-year-old Ford conflicting with his vision of Jack Ryan's age, but publicly stated his satisfaction once he actually saw a cut of the film a few weeks before it was released. The film premiered in theaters in the United States on June 5, 1992, by Paramount Pictures, and spent two weeks as the No. 1 film, grossing $178.1 million worldwide at the box office. It received a generally positive reception from critics. It was followed by Clear and Present Danger (1994), with Ford, Archer, Jones and Birch reprising their roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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