Patriot Games (DVD)

Patriot Games is the 1992 political thriller directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan, an ex-US army marine and CIA analyst who is forced back into the service of the CIA when he foils an IRA attempt to assasinate a member of the British Royal family whilst on holiday. In spoiling the terrorist attack, Ryan kills one of the perpetrators. The dead man's brother (Sean Miller played by Sean Bean), who is also a member of the IRA group responsible for the attack then targets Ryan's family, trailing them to the United States. This forces Ryan back into the service to try and track down the terrorist and thus save himself and his ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Patriot Games is the 1992 film starring Harrison FGord based on the novel by Tom Clancy. It is a direct sequel to Hunt For Red October in terms of stories, but can easily be watched on its own without having seen the previous film, which starred Alec Baldwin in the role of Jack Ryan, here played by Harrison Ford. Ryan is a retired CIA agent on holiday with his family in Ireland. As bad luck would have it, he interferes with an IRA attack, and becomes the target himself. However, CIA expert Ryan has other ideas, and the last thing any terrorists want to be doing is targeting him. Ford gives a good rendition of Jack Ryan. He was to follow it up with ...  Read the complete review