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Frans
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#48
Mijn Waardering:
6
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Ja
Eigenaar:
Frans
Locatie:
Huiskamer
Thriller
Plot:
In Patriot Games, Harrison Ford plays former CIA agent Jack Ryan, taking over from Alec Baldwin, who had played author Tom Clancy's brainy protagonist in Hunt for Red October. This time around, Ryan foils an attempted assassination, thereby incurring the wrath of maniacal Irish radical (Sean Bean). After several complex plot convolutions (including a nailbiting sequence involving a satellite reconnaissance photograph), the villains seem to be neutralized, and Ryan decides to celebrate the occasion with his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter (Thora Birch), whose own lives have been imperiled throughout the picture. At this point, all logic flies out the window with an unbelievable terrorist assault on Ryan's seacoast home, followed by an even sillier speedboat chase. As stupidly as Ryan behaves in failing to provide adequate protection for his family (is Archer condemned for life to play victimized wives?), the villains are even more foolhardy, with one terrorist virtually begging to be killed by facing down the well-armed Bean and shouting "You're insane!" Author Tom Clancy himself bemoaned the liberties taken with his novel in the final sequences; in addition, Ford is not as ideally suited for the role of Jack Ryan as Alec Baldwin had been. But who cared? Patriot Games made a fortune, and inspired a far better followup, A Clear and Present Danger (1994). -- Hal Erickson
Review:
The second film in the series of Tom Clancy spy-thrillers featuring CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford), crisply directed by Phillip Noyce, has the plot twists and gimmickry his fans expect, though the ending seems a bit far-fetched even by the standards of this reality-bending genre. If the events of September 11 have given pause to those who shrugged off Clancy's books as right-wing paranoia, they've also pointed up the limitations of the intelligence community for which he's been such a hyperbolic acolyte. Indeed, in the early days of the crisis, the CIA was forced by the press to acknowledge his exaggeration of its real-time satellite surveillance capabilities, as depicted in one of this film's most entertaining scenes. Jack Ryan, unlike most CIA analysts who never face as much danger as the average accountant, seems to be a veritable magnet for mayhem, here becoming the target of a vengeful IRA terrorist. To raise the stakes, his wife (Anne Archer) and child have also been placed in jeopardy, and by a perhaps intentional twist of casting, these symbols of domestic virtue have been rendered less glamorous than the terrorists, especially as played by the likes of Patrick Bergin and Polly Walker. Richard Harris, as an IRA gunman, offers a lively change from the film's predictable alternation of bureaucratic infighting and terrorist plotting, and his bar scene with Ford is the film's best. Yet, Noyce never lets the momentum flag, and up to the point where the bad guys unbelievably decide to hunt down Ryan on his home turf for a comic-book ending, one is willing to suspend disbelief. The excellent cast includes James Earl Jones, Sean Bean, James Fox, and Samuel L. Jackson. -- Michael Costello
USA / English
| Harrison Ford | Jack Ryan |
| Anne Archer | Cathy Muller Ryan |
| Patrick Bergin | Kevin O'Donnell |
| Sean Bean | Sean Miller |
| Thora Birch | Sally Ryan |
| James Fox | Lord Holmes |
| Samuel L. Jackson | Robert Jefferson 'Robby' Jackson |
| Polly Walker | Annette |
| J.E. Freeman | Marty Cantor |
| James Earl Jones | Admiral James Greer |
| Samuel L. Jackson | Lt. Cmdr. Robby Jackson |
| James Earl Jones | Adm. James Greer |
| Regisseur | Phillip Noyce |
| Producent | Mace Neufeld; Robert Rehme |
| Schrijver | Tom Clancy; W. Peter Iliff |
In Patriot Games, Harrison Ford plays former CIA agent Jack Ryan, taking over from Alec Baldwin, who had played author Tom Clancy's brainy protagonist in Hunt for Red October. This time around, Ryan foils an attempted assassination, thereby incurring the wrath of maniacal Irish radical (Sean Bean). After several complex plot convolutions (including a nailbiting sequence involving a satellite reconnaissance photograph), the villains seem to be neutralized, and Ryan decides to celebrate the occasion with his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter (Thora Birch), whose own lives have been imperiled throughout the picture. At this point, all logic flies out the window with an unbelievable terrorist assault on Ryan's seacoast home, followed by an even sillier speedboat chase. As stupidly as Ryan behaves in failing to provide adequate protection for his family (is Archer condemned for life to play victimized wives?), the villains are even more foolhardy, with one terrorist virtually begging to be killed by facing down the well-armed Bean and shouting "You're insane!" Author Tom Clancy himself bemoaned the liberties taken with his novel in the final sequences; in addition, Ford is not as ideally suited for the role of Jack Ryan as Alec Baldwin had been. But who cared? Patriot Games made a fortune, and inspired a far better followup, A Clear and Present Danger (1994). -- Hal Erickson
Review:
The second film in the series of Tom Clancy spy-thrillers featuring CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford), crisply directed by Phillip Noyce, has the plot twists and gimmickry his fans expect, though the ending seems a bit far-fetched even by the standards of this reality-bending genre. If the events of September 11 have given pause to those who shrugged off Clancy's books as right-wing paranoia, they've also pointed up the limitations of the intelligence community for which he's been such a hyperbolic acolyte. Indeed, in the early days of the crisis, the CIA was forced by the press to acknowledge his exaggeration of its real-time satellite surveillance capabilities, as depicted in one of this film's most entertaining scenes. Jack Ryan, unlike most CIA analysts who never face as much danger as the average accountant, seems to be a veritable magnet for mayhem, here becoming the target of a vengeful IRA terrorist. To raise the stakes, his wife (Anne Archer) and child have also been placed in jeopardy, and by a perhaps intentional twist of casting, these symbols of domestic virtue have been rendered less glamorous than the terrorists, especially as played by the likes of Patrick Bergin and Polly Walker. Richard Harris, as an IRA gunman, offers a lively change from the film's predictable alternation of bureaucratic infighting and terrorist plotting, and his bar scene with Ford is the film's best. Yet, Noyce never lets the momentum flag, and up to the point where the bad guys unbelievably decide to hunt down Ryan on his home turf for a comic-book ending, one is willing to suspend disbelief. The excellent cast includes James Earl Jones, Sean Bean, James Fox, and Samuel L. Jackson. -- Michael Costello
| Editie gegevens | |
| Regio | Region 2 |
| Release Datum | 2000 |
| Scherm Verhouding | 2.35 Anamorphic |
| Ondertitels | Dutch; English |
| Geluidssporen | DTS |
| Lagen | Enkelzijdig, Dubbellaags |
| Aantal Disks/Banden | 1 |
| Persoonlijke Gegevens | |
| Aanschafdatum | 10-1-2004 |
| Aanschafprijs | € 11,00 |
| Winkel | Free Record Shop |
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