When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.
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Patriot Games is a short thriller based on Tom Clancy's novel of the same name. It follows the events after an IRA assassination plot is foiled by CIA agent Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford). Sean Bean plays IRA renegade Sean Miller seeking revenge. Though all good performances, they are forgotten in this mediocre movie.
There are some beautiful set pieces that take the audience back and forth on different sides of the Atlantic. Yet, I found the plot tying all events together a bit too convenient to be believable.
Action is too far and few between to keep the audience captivated. Some things happen too conveniently. And the plot moves at a snail's pace.
3/5. Though I like espionage films, I couldn't find myself recommending this to anyone except the most devout Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan fans.
- mikayakatnt
- Mar 21, 2020
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- TriviaThe attack on members of the Royal Family at the beginning of the film was inspired by a similar true-life attempt to kidnap Princess Anne on March 20, 1974. She was in her car when a man shot her guard and driver. She was subsequently helped by a passerby who attacked the criminal and saved her.
- GoofsWhile it is true that the average British police officer does not carry a firearm, there is no way that a convicted high-profile IRA terrorist would be escorted without an armed guard.
- Quotes
Jack Ryan: I want to know where Sean Miller and Kevin O'Donnell are.
Paddy O'Neil: [scoffs] Let me try and understand this. You want me to sell out my fellow lrishmen to you? Is that why you came down here? You don't understand me at all.
Jack Ryan: Oh, l think l do.
Paddy O'Neil: Look, I don't give a damn what they've done, but the day that l sell out my countrymen will be the day that I put a bullet through my own head.
Jack Ryan: That's it, then, huh?
Paddy O'Neil: That's it. You know, on second thought, maybe I won't have a drink with you
Jack Ryan: Okay, then I'll go home.
Paddy O'Neil: Have a safe trip.
Jack Ryan: I'll go home and call the TV stations, give them what they want: let them take their cameras into my daughter's hospital room, put it on the evening news.
[getting in Paddy's face]
Jack Ryan: I don't give a shit whether you did it or not, and neither will anyone else. But I will put such a stranglehold on your gun money, you'll be out in the streets throwing rocks! I will *fucking* destroy you! I will make it my mission in life!
- Alternate versionsThe German TV-version has got a few cuts.
- ConnectionsEdited into EBN: Commercial Entertainment Product (1992)
- SoundtracksTheme from Harry's Game
Performed by Clannad
Details
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Juego de patriotas
- Filming locations
- 1920 Scientists Cliff Road, Port Republic, Maryland, USA(Ryan's house aerial view)
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $45,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $83,351,587
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,511,191
- Jun 7, 1992
- Gross worldwide
- $178,051,587
- Runtime1 hour 57 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
- 2.35 : 1
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