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Patriot Games

Patriot Games

6,7 /10 (1,855 Votes)
1992 EN 117 min

Overview

When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

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Release date

04/06/1992

Votes

1,855

Popularity

8.2

Not for honor. Not for country. For his wife and child.

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

117 min

Budget

$45,000,000

Revenue

$178,051,587

Original Soundtrack

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John Chard

John Chard

2019-03-15

⭐ 7

Good guys are real good, and the bad guys are real bad. Patriot Games is a more than serviceable thriller, perhaps a bit out of date when viewing it now, but still a very effective good against evil piece. The source material is so dense and intricate it was always going to be hard to condense that into a 2 hour movie, but I feel the makers manage to keep it fleshy whilst making the respective characters interesting and watchable. The acting on show is more than adequate, Harrison Ford is great in the role of Jack Ryan, he manages to portray him as a sensitive family man who can st…

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-07-07

⭐ 6

Clearly Alec Baldwin was too exhausted after his submarine adventure in 1990, so Harrison Ford picked up the mantle of "Jack Ryan" - now a former CIA operative who is on the UK on holiday with his family. Hardly have the titles ended before he is embroiled in an IRA attempt to kidnap "Lord Holmes" (James Fox), a distant cousin of the Queen Mother. Intervening, he kills one of the attackers who happens to be the younger brother of the surviving attacker "Sean" (they kept it simple for Mr Bean). Of course he is sprung from police custody via some dinghies near Tower Bridge and next thing "Ryan" …

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