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Patriot Games
Directed by
Phillip Noyce
R
1992
1h 57m
Drama
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Action
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6.8
72%
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When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.
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Cast of Patriot Games
Harrison Ford
Jack Ryan
Anne Archer
Dr. Caroline "Cathy" Ryan
Thora Birch
Sally Ryan
Sean Bean
Sean Miller
Patrick Bergin
Kevin O'Donnell
Polly Walker
Annette
James Fox
Lord William Holmes
Samuel L. Jackson
Lt. Cmdr. Robby Jackson
James Earl Jones
Adm. James Greer
Richard Harris
Paddy O'Neil
J.E. Freeman
Marty Cantor
Alex Norton
Dennis Cooley
Hugh Fraser
Watkins
David Threlfall
Inspector Highland
Alun Armstrong
Owens
Berlinda Tolbert
Sissy
Gerald Sim
Lord Justice
Pip Torrens
First Aide
Thomas Russell
Ashley
Andrew Connolly
Charlie Dugan
Keith Campbell
Ned Clark
Jonathan Ryan
Jimmy Reardon
P.H. Moriarty
Court Guard
Bob Gunton
Interviewer
Ted Raimi
CIA Technician
Brenda James
Secretary
Karl Hayden
Paddy Boy
Claire Oberman
Lady Holmes
Oliver Stone
Young Holmes
Tom Watt
The Electrician
Tim Dutton
Constable
Martin Cochrane
Constable
Ellen Geer
Rose
John Lafayette
Winter
Shaun Duke
Ferro
Fritz Sperberg
Spiva
Allison Barron
CIA Analyst
Philip Levien
Dr Shapiro
Jesse D. Goins
FBI Agent Shaw
Michael Ryan Way
Avery
Peter Weireter
FBI Director’s Bodyguard (uncredited)
Roger Blake
Constable
Patriot Games Ratings & Reviews
Newsweek
David Ansen
Much of Patriot Games is routine: good guys and bad guys running around with heavy artillery. But at its best moments, Noyce and Ford snap the genre back to life.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Patriot Games is serviceable entertainment, with some exciting action set pieces, but it's also stolid and prosaic; it lacks the dazzle and intricacy a movie like this one needs.
Newsday
Jack Mathews
There's not an ounce of plausibility to be found anywhere in the plot, or among its cast of characters, but it does have its moments. Australian director Phillip Noyce is a wild man with action scenes, and Ford remains [appealing].
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
Patriot Games has all the makings of a summer hit: escapism, a fast-moving plot, a high-profile cast and direction that accentuates the movie's strengths.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Patriot Games delivers the best possible version of a tale that boils down to nothing but gamesmanship, as its title implies.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Holleman
The movie delivers enough thrills to satisfy all but the most hard-core adrenalin addicts. And several touches, especially the lead performance of Harrison Ford, elevate this film above the standard summer suspense offerings.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Denby
Despite a few oddities, Patriot Games is well done, but you can't figure out why it was done... The filmmakers and actors are pros, but this is the original thing they have to say: "A man whose family is in danger will take strong steps to protect it."
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Patriot Games is peppier than the boring glub-glub-glubbing of The Hunt for Red October. But despite Ford's self-deprecating charm, it's disappointingly ordinary, even by right-wing standards.
Detroit Free Press
Linnea Lannon
Patriot is not going to win Best Picture, but as action thrillers go, it is more than serviceable. It's good-looking, it's got small details to savor, and it's fun.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Michael H. Price
Patriot Games has a commonplace feel, a going-through-the-motions attitude that makes the story not only forgettable but also unexciting, even while the suspense is supposed to be building.
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
The screenplay, by W. Peter Iliff and Donald Stewart, eliminates most of Clancy's journalistic focus, and Noyce's primitive direction reduces the material even further, to the kind of simplistic melodrama most notoriously embodied by [Death Wish].
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Strip away the gloss that a big budget buys, and what you have here is the basic revenge drama that Steven Seagal and Chuck Norris have been making and taking to the bank for years.
New York Daily News
Kathleen Carroll
Patriot Games crackles with tension.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A perfectly adequate action thriller that neither disappoints nor exhilarates. If it doesn't exactly crackle with energy, it lets off a good buzz now and again, and depending on your mood, it may seem churlish to ask for more than that.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
There is something abstract and distant about Patriot Games. But there are at least four exciting preliminary confrontations... Along with the expert binding of Ford's performance, these are the juicy raisins in an otherwise blandish pudding.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Noyce stages these sequences marvelously, shaping the action as if he were molding a kinetic sculpture.
Arizona Republic
Bob Fenster
Patriot Games is an overlong, overwrought action movie without much action. Its depiction of international anti-terrorism is insulting to the intelligence, and even Harrison Ford can't bring much life to a dull movie.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
What Patriot Games does very well is what Tom Clancy's novels do so well -- take us on a credible journey inside the high-tech CIA.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Best of all is Mr. Ford, the Thinking Person's Action Hero... He's this "Games'" most Valuable Player. By a mile.
Variety
Joseph McBride
While Ford is a solid blend of thought and action in his James Bondish role, and his need to protect his family gives the film some gripping moments, the film's moral viewpoint is strictly neanderthal.
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