Patriot Games (DVD)

Patriot Games sees Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan return to the screen fresh from the hit movie Hunt for Red October. This time Ryan, who is played by Harrison Ford in this film, breaks up an assassination attempt on a member of the British Royal family whilst on vacation in London. During the attempt Ryan kills one of the terrorists, the younger brother of Sean Miller played by Sean Bean. The Irish terrorist group behind the attack don't take kindly to this and fuelled by Sean Miller's thirst for revenge they target Ryan and his family. Of course Jack Ryan isn't going to take this lying down so rejoins the CIA to track down the terrorist group for the sake of his ...

This is a good quality action/thriller type of film and should appeal to most people. The basic plot at time is original but there are a few flaws. The basic plot follows Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) a CIA agent. Whilst on holiday he prevents an assassination attempt upon the royal family a kills one of the assassins, he happens to be the brother of a nasty Irishman (Sean Bean) who takes up a vendetta against Ryan and his family. For the rest of the film Bean and his group attempt to harm his family and basically there is room for a few close shaves before a powerful ending where Bean lays siege to Ryan’s home. The overall plot is good and as you’d ...

Harrison Ford stars in this excellent action thriller as Jack Ryan a CIA analyst who has a superb strategic mind but is y no means a seasoned field operative, while on a combined business trip and holiday with his wife (Anne Archer) and young daughter he intervenes in an IRA splinter groups assasination attempt on a member of the Royal Family and shoots dead one of the terrorists while another, the dead mans brother played by Sean Bean, is captured. When Beans' character escapes from the police he seeks out revenge on Ryan who has returned to America with his family and the two enter into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with some ery high stakes ...