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Summary: A great thriller, Harrison Ford was awesome
Review: Harrison Ford plays Jack Ryan. After just witnessing an attack on the British royal family, saving one of them, he is haunted by it. The same terrorists come after him, and invade his home im Maryland
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Summary: An Action film which is better than the book it's based on.
Review: Although Patriot Games was both a critical and commercial failure in 1992 (because of the sensitive subject matter) it is a still a good action film. It is one of the few films which is much better than the book it's based on.Tom (please give up the day job! ) Clancy's book is loaded with stereotypical views on Irish (God fearing/ Heavy drinking!), British (Pompous/ Impotent!) and American (Loudmouth/ Stupid!) Peoples. The Book also made assumptions on real tragic events in Northern Ireland such as Bloody Sunday '72 (where Clancy's IRA men deliberately set up the British Paras to shoot unarmed Republican Protesters) which have offended many Human Rights activists and families of the victims. But where the Film itself triumphs is that it totally bypasses any true opinion on the Irish Troubles to present an exciting action Thriller where a Family man fights to protect his loved ones from the aggressions of an IRA splinter group. In fact the only reference made in the film to America's viewpoint on Northern Ireland is the scene where CIA chief Cannon implies to Jack Ryan that there is mixture of admiration and derision among Americans to Ryan's foiling of the IRA hit on the Royals. The performances are all top rate particularily Ford as an ex CIA man forced to rejoin the dark world of espionage he thought he left behind. Sean Bean's performance of an embittered IRA gunman is equally impressive as it leaves the Viewer feeling both fear and sympathy towards his character. The Actions scenes are staged quite well and the pacing is fairly adequate throughout the entire film. Some of the Set pieces in the film where we see a sattelite's view of the SAS destroying a desert fort was quite suspenseful albeit a trifle unrealistic (could 8 SAS men wipe out a high security Paramilitary camp without any casualties! ). The only real gripe is the fight scene at the end of the film which ran enthusiastically into cliche. Do not be discouraged by the other reviews written here which seem to be more focused on whether or not the Film accurately portrays the Irish Troubles and the IRA rather than it's overall potency as an espionage Thriller. Those other reviewers obviously watched the film with their eyes wide shut! All in all Patriot Games is the most exciting (although least successful) of the Ryan Trilogy which thanks to the reworked Screenplay and Noyce's direction seems to avoid getting wound up in the sensitive subject matter as well as ignoring most of Clancy's childish scribblings to present an entertaining film.
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Summary: An intense thrill ride , Harrison Ford is awsome.
Review: An , intense thriller from the makers of Red October.Jack Ryan is a family man played very well by {Harrison Ford}with a child and wife.Jack is also a true soldier for his country.On a very important assigment and a vacation.But when his family accidently gets in the middle of an intense attack from a mysterious group of rebels, making an attack on a royal family,Jack defends himself the only way he knows how he fights back.But while he may have saved his family one of the rebels , brother is killed in the attack. When Ryan testifies in court against the rebel he devises to kill Ryan at all costs.When he does even he goes as far as to attack his family.And enrages Jack to become a CIA agent one again to seek the truth to who these people are and just why they orderd the attack and then the games , begin. Harrison Ford is incredible and the supporting cast is grand.This movie will make your heart race as Games reveals it's incredible edge of you seat finally.Incredible music by James Horner and really captures the danger.The picture is crystal clear and the sound is picture perfect. If you like Harrison Ford and his acting ability you will get that but also you'll get one awsome thriller.Seat up and get ready play the Games.
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Summary: A great action film!
Review: This is my favorite movie of all time. One cannot find a movie any better than this. A fantastic job converting a terrific book into an even better movie. Most books-to-movies are terrible portrayals, however this movie keeps you in suspense until the final shot. After seeing this movie as many times as I have, I still get nervous and anxious at the peak of the movie, waiting for the finale.
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Summary: Remarkable
Review: To anyone who claims this is Hollywood garbage, I can only say you clearly haven't understood the movie... this is not an anti-IRA movie (as much as it should have been!) - the primary [evil] actors were a splinter group. More importantly than this though, it extols the virtues of family values. Attacks against family members is one of life's worst situations...Ford gives such a believable performance - deep in emotion. The music score provides a haunting backdrop to a 'thoughtful' and 'thought provoking' production. Buy this movie...
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Summary: This Movie is awesome
Review: With a compelling plot, great actors, and best of all, based on a Clancy book, what could go wrong? Nothing. This movie was just about perfect, with a few modifications. This movie has great action sequences, especially the last one. If you are thinking about buying this movie, take my word on it, buy it here, and buy it soon. you'll save som money, and save some time.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Definitly the best of the three (and I liked the other two). The soundtrack is also wonderful. The portrayal of Ryan (Ford) as an inoccent tourist who happens to break up an attack on the Royal Family is well adapted from the book. The action sequence in the end could have been a little longer, but all in all it was an excellent movie.
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Summary: Not one for the Irish peace process
Review: Reactionary, right wing rubbish. That's how best I could describe this drivel which wastes the talents of Harrison Ford and Sean Bean as the laughable, constantly scowling terrorist in a film which required sensitivity and subtlety. Sadly, Patriot Games provides neither, in this all too simplistic tale of so-called good vs evil, which has Hollywood stamped all over it.
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Summary: The best movie I have ever seen!
Review: This movie by far is one of the best movies of all time
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Summary: Ok movie it shows the IRA what they really are
Review: I have read some of these reviews with amazment that some people actually support the PIRA and their campiagns of bombing and killing on my country and in ireland when they are nothing more than thugs who go around murdering innocent people and who do not even represent a majority of northern ireland the loyalists do.
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