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Patriot Games Special Edition [1992]
from Paramount Home Entertainment
starring Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch
directed by Phillip Noyce

Features:

• PAL
• Special Edition

Editorial Review:

Let's see--he has been Han Solo in three films and Indiana Jones in three more. So why shouldn't Harrison Ford take on a new continuing character in Tom Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan? In this film, directed by Phillip Noyce, Ford picked up the baton when Alec Baldwin, who played Ryan in The Hunt for Red October, opted for a Broadway role instead. In this film, Ryan and his family are on vacation when Ryan saves a member of the British royal family from attack by Irish terrorists. The next thing he knows, the Ryan clan has been targeted by the same terrorists, who invade his Maryland home. The film can't shed all of Clancy's lumbering prose, or his techno-dweeb fascination with spy satellites and the like. But no one is better than Ford at righteous heroism--and Sean Bean makes a suitably snakey villain. --Marshall Fine

His days as a CIA analyst behind him, Jack Ryan travels to London to vacation with his family. Outside Buckingham Palace, he is caught in the middle of an attack on a member of the royal family but manages to foil the attempt and dispatch one of the terrorists. The Irish terrorists vow revenge. Based on Tom Clancy's novel.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• enjoyable and fairly believable story about a cia hero
  This is a fast-paced though predictable thriller but never becomes dull because of good acting by harrison ford, anne archer, sean bean and the other cast members.The action is realistic and doesn't rely too heavily on special effects.Worth watching once.

• One of the best thrillers of all time
  This adaptation ot Clancy's novel of the same name is outstanding- Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan is once again excellent in this thriller.
  The story centres on Ryan, who having left the CIA behind years previously to focus on his family, gives a lecture in London during a holiday with his wife and daughter. In a chance encounter in Mayfair, Ryan defends an attack on a member of the Royal Family by a brutally ruthless IRA-ofshoot faction, killing one of two brothers involved, and thus incurring the wrath... more info

• GREAT FILM
  Gripping stuff. Harrison Ford plays Dr. Jack Ryan, loosely employed with the CIA. Ryan foyles an IRA attack on a member of the Royal family, whilst working in London, in which one of the gunmen (Sean Bean) loses his younger brother. Out for revenge, Bean targets Ryan's family and injur his wife and daughter in a hit and run style car attack. Ryan joins the CIA and unravels the IRA cell.
  Great action and very clever story from Tom Clancy.

• A BRILLIANT FILM
  love this film! No doubt about it! I usually watch this film once every 3-4 weeks, and I never get sick of it! There are not many other films that are so addictive you can watch it over and over again and not get sick of it, so this is a rarity coming from the beginning of the 90s. (other addictive films include 'Romancing the Stone', 'Die Hard' and 'A Fish Called Wanda') The cast for the film is superb! Ford is great as Ryan, who is relieving Alec Baldwin after 'Hunt For Red October'. Also, the main... more info

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