Patriot Games (1992)

Tom Clancy's brick is given the Hollywood treatment with Harrison Ford stepping into the role previously played by Alec Baldwin in The Hunt For Red October, CIA agent and future PotUS Jack Ryan, a family man, patriot, and all-round impossibly good guy who here becomes the target of an IRA revenge plot that greatly endangers the lives of his beautifully expressive wife (Anne Archer) and daughter.

★★★★☆

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The Hunt For Red October (1990)

In this first of the Jack Ryan movies, released in 1990 with Alec Baldwin as Tom Clancy's hero, Jack Ryan is a mere "expendable" analyst but even so he is the only one among CIA heavies and the navy elite of two countries who can intuit what is really going on (nothing terribly thrilling) when a Russian nuclear submarine, the Red October, goes awol.

★★★☆☆

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