You can help us help kids by suggesting a diversity update. Patriot Games offers positive messages about family, loyalty, sacrifice, and the risks we take for those we love.
Though characters are painted in very broad strokes as either good or bad, parents are shown as extremely engaged and caring, and many adults are shown as respectable, committed, patriotic people. Even when characters are bad, they're often shown as acting out of loyalty to loved ones or for love of country. The film contains numerous scenes of graphic, often bloody violence, several of which involve the injury or peril of a child, and some three dozen deaths are shown explicitly.
Several people are shot in the head, or otherwise at close range, with numerous bodies shown being shot full of bullets and bleeding profusely.
Many scenes involve the brandishing of assault rifles. There are fistfights and shoot-outs between governments and terrorist groups. In one scene, a team of government agents is shown watching the killing of a terrorist training group by satellite. There also are numerous explosions and bombings of buildings, cars, and a boat.
In one particularly graphic scene, a pregnant mother and child are shot at while they're driving and then shown crashing into a guard rail, with subsequent scenes of them in the hospital in unknown conditions.
In another, a man is impaled. There also are a few high-speed car or boat chases that involve frequent firing of assault weapons, sometimes ending in crashes and explosions.
The movie has no nudity but has one sexually suggestive scene wherein a woman in lingerie licks a man in only underwear up and down his chest while they're in bed. They roll on the bed briefly. In another scene, a man and woman kiss while in bed, with her in modest lingerie and he in a shirt and boxer shorts. A couple kiss briefly in a car. While monitoring a satellite feed to identify a terrorist, a man zooms in a woman's chest in a tank top and says, "T-ts. Explicit profanity such as "f--k" or "f--k the bloody IRA" is used occasionally.
Elsewhere, milder profanity and harsh, threatening language is used, from expressions such as "Jesus" or "bastard" to threats of "slit his throat" or "I will f--king destroy you" or "put a bullet in his head. Very casual smoking is shown in multiple scenes such as work settings, bars, or at home. In a handful of scenes, adults drink wine or champagne to celebrate. In one scene, men drink at a bar. No one is shown drunk. Parents need to know that Patriot Games is a spy thriller adapted from the Tom Clancy novel of the same name, and it's the sequel to The Hunt for Red October with different lead actors.
It contains numerous scenes of violence and bloodshed, dozens of deaths, high peril, and frequent use of weapons, particularly assault rifles. It depicts multiple scenes of a pregnant mother and her child put in grave danger, including their injury and near-death.
Language is an issue: Explicit profanity, such as "f--k," appears. Elsewhere, milder profanity and harsh, threatening language is used, from expressions such as "Jesus" and "bastard" to threats of "slit his throat" or "put a bullet in his head.
Add your rating See all 3 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 5 kid reviews. Can he protect his family as a civilian, or will the threat of danger lure him back into CIA life? It also reminds us why Harrison Ford's mix of fluster and bravado made him so good at playing a family man in pretty much anything. It also has tough scenes for parents, including a pregnant mother and child in a graphic car crash, some worrisome hospital scenes, and multiple scenes with a child under attack or a mom and daughter receiving death threats.
But for parents who love a good Tom Clancy novel or anything with Ford, it's an absorbing work that happens to eerily foreshadow some of today's drone technology and remote political warfare tactics.
Side note: With a surgeon for a wife and a daughter who crushes it at Monopoly and even a female terrorist plotting alongside the men, it is a rare bit of gender parity amid the bloodshed.
Families can talk about how films glamorize the role of CIA agents and spies. Do you think real-life spies really live this way? Sign in to vote. SnoopyStyle 8 November Ryan saves the day. Sean Miller Sean Bean is captured while his brother is killed. Kevin O'Donnell Patrick Bergin escapes. He leads a splinter group of Irish terrorists along with his girlfriend Annette Polly Walker. They break out Miller and set off to take revenge on the Ryan family.
This is a good but not great Jack Ryan movie. Harrison Ford does this type of role quite well. The film could have tighten the tension a bit more in the first half. The courtroom achieves little. Sean Bean screaming at Harrison Ford after the shootout would have been more intense. His escape could have been a great car chase but it's surprisingly static. Other than the cold blooded killings, there's nothing interesting there.
Even Jack and Cathy's phone call before the crash could have been more intense. He has literally escaped death and yet he's so coy about the danger. I do like the section where he's looking for the terrorists in North Africa with the satellite.
It's cerebral and probably the most memorable part of the movie. On the other hand, the terrorists seem to be everywhere which seems odd. First they take the slow boat to America, then escape to North America and then somehow return back to America. Hitchcoc 14 September I really like Harrison Ford.
His boyish smile and his pained workmanship approach to life in his movies is really enjoyable. I thought his character was fine in this movie except the writers had him doing ridiculous, almost comedic, things to get himself into trouble.
We have this bunch of Irish terrorists, one of whom has gone off his hinges because of the loss of a brother, going bananas in his obsession with killing and punishing Ford's character. So, knowing this, what do we do. Oh, I know. Let's go to the most deserted, unprotected place.
Let's take along the political figure the crazies are after, and leave them unprotected. It doesn't matter that the wife and daughter have nearly been killed. Let's stick them out there in as much harm's way as possible. There is a lot to recommend this movie as far as atmosphere and a presentation of the zealots that create the situation. But, what do you know, Hollywood has to once again make them superhuman, virtually impenetrable, with the tenacity of the shark in Jaws.
This could have been a finely crafted thriller. The situation is set up wonderfully. The terror is there. Isn't it enough to be looking over the shoulder at every move. It ends up being another Indiana Jones conclusion, incredibly contrived, and totally unbelievable. It could have been so much more, if the script didn't fall back on every formula imaginable.
Stupid to the point of insulting bob the moo 19 December Jack Ryan has left the CIA. He is on holiday in London when he manages to spoil an IRA assassination attempt on a member of the Royal family. However when the brother of one of the terrorists swears revenge on Ryan, he is forced to rejoin Admiral Greer's CIA in order to track down and capture Miller and the others who are in the IRA.
The plot to this is full of ridiculous points - the shoot out in front of Parliament, the fudging of the IRA issues right through to Ryan being decorated on behalf of Britain in his living room. The plot is too scared to upset the Irish audience in making sure that it's not the IRA that's doing it - instead it's a group that is 'too crazy for the IRA'.
This allows some of the IRA members to be shown as kindly old men etc Richard Harris without them being associated with Sean Beam's murderers. The story is very daft and is only an excuse for set pieces and action. It's all very daft and it is just a shame that no-one tried to make the plot stand up for itself.
Ford just does his standard 'normal man in heroic situation' stuff and doesn't do anything special. Bean is good but is lumbered with a poor role and bad dialogue. Bergin is also stuck in the same boat. Jackson, James Earl Jones, Fox and Harris all add a touch of class to this that it patently doesn't deserve to have. The film is almost insulting in it's attempts to turn terrorists into good men, and blame any trouble on people outside the main IRA who are too crazy to be members of this fine upstanding organisation!
None of the terrorist groups are honourable. If a splinter group exists it is not because they were 'too violent' or 'too crazy' to be part of the main group, but because the main group wants to be able to claim peace while still condoning violence. For example the protestant terrorists use splinter groups called 'The red hand defenders' while the IRA hide behind 'the continuity IRA' 'the real IRA' or any other name that comes to mind.
A film that thinks that members are too crazy is clearly doesn't want to let the facts get in the way of a story. Overall this is so daft that I'm surprised it ever got OK'd to be made. Alec Baldwin played Ryan in 'Hunt for Red October' and missed out here because of high wage demands compared to a low star rating.
I imagine he watched this and thanked God that he hadn't signed anything binding. The movie does use quite a few cliches - but when you have Harrison Ford in the lead Jack Ryan role I mean can you really be mad at the movie?
Maybe you can, I reckon I can't. Still the movie has its flaws and its strength at times, the former especially evident towards the end, when our main bad guy throws rhyme and reason Up to this point we have to deal with an American tourist who is at the right place at the right time Always the good doers Good actors add to the gravitas of the movie and hold up the tension of it - and make you look the other way instead of cringe at certain moments In , Baldwin says he did not appear because of "sleazy Hollywood tools.
No offense to Baldwin, and no offense to Ben Affleck, who are both being excellent actors in their own right. But Ford just has the right look of an experienced agent, and someone you expect to get in combat with another spy. This is quite an interesting idea, basically someone ruins a plan and then he and his family are the new targets.
These people want to get his family involved as well. These nasty people are lead by Sean Miller Sean Bean , and there is a really good fight scene near the end between him and Ryan. There are some pretty good chase sequences in the film, but I think it is Ford and Bean that make the film really good. Also starring Samuel L. Jackson as Lt. This is an outstanding thriller, a movie I have always enjoyed watching since it came out.
Apparently a number of people also did since a few sequels followed featuring the main character ex-CIA analyst "Jack Ryan," played by Harrison Ford. Sean Bean was excellent as the revenge-obsessed villain, a member of a "splinter group," as its labeled not really an IRA extremist, but one too out-of- control for any group.
Ford is the man best able to stop him and the film is very interesting start-to-finish and smart enough not to overdo the violence.
Suspenseful is probably the best word to describe the movie as Bean goes after Ford's family. This is simply one of the best thrillers I've ever seen and almost every scene is interesting. A captured IRA terrorist is Sean Bean, whose brother Harrison has just killed in self defense, and Bean will never give up his quest for revenge on Ryan and his family. It's always interesting to see what kind of heavy a movie gives us. The heavies are a chronicle of the times. In this instance it's unlikely that a story from Tom Clancy, a robustly nationalistic Irish-American novelist who plays with guns, is going to paint the Irish Revolutionary Army red, for reasons both sentimental and commercial.
It's a splinter group, see. Not the actual IRA. This splinter groups is so mean that they kill an IRA chief who tries to restrain them. And as if that weren't enough, Sean Bean turns out to be too evil even for the "ultra-violent splinter group" as Ford describes them.
Bean is an iconoclastic loony who shoots the members of his own splinter group when they try to dissuade him from killing Ford. Bean's group has one member, himself. I guess that should put enough distance between the evil Sean Bean, on the one hand, and the Auld Sod on the other. After the initial violent encounter, the movie turns into a game of cat and mouse, with Bean the cat and Ryan the mouse.
Bean escapes from captivity, pursues Ryan to Annapolis, and tries to kill everyone in sight. The climactic fight is done by the number in typical action movie style.
Two speedboats on rough seas in the middle of the night during a thunderstorm. But Miller also wants personal vengeance on Ryan, and that creates a division even within this ultra-militant group. The Irish always resented this arrangement, which included feudal absentee landlordism; and when England became Protestant, religious discrimination was added to ethnic discrimination. Then in Oliver Cromwell executed the King of England and tried to establish a permanent non-monarchial form of British government with himself as the first Lord Protector.
Cromwell led a strike into Ireland which included a massacre of civilians at Drogheda.
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