The Hunt for Red October [Blu-ray] Review
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The first of the Jack Ryan films, taken from the first Tom Clancy Ryan technothriller (The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan)), is a winner from the start. Historian and free-lance intelligence analyst Ryan (Alec Baldwin), who’s currently living in London, travels to CIA Headquarters to consult with an old friend, Adm. Greer (James Earl Jones) about some mysterious photos he’s acquired of a new Russian nuclear sub. The “Red October,” which boasts a secret new silent-running capability known as a “caterpillar drive,” is captained by an ethnic Lithuanian, Marko Ramius (Sean Connery), whom Ryan soon begins to suspect is planning to defect, and take the sub and at least part of its complement with him. Unfortunately he can’t prove it–and the Russians, who know it to be the truth, have turned out everything that can float to stop or destroy the fleeing sub. It’s up to Jack to either convince the American authorities that the Russians are using them as cat’s-paws, or get aboard the “October” and get the truth from Ramius himself. The tension ratchets up steadily to an almost unbearable peak as American and Russian navies alike quarter the North Atlantic, each trying to drive the “October” into range of the other. (Watch for Courtney B. Vance as Seaman Jones, a classical-music-loving sonar specialist aboard the sub that’s actually the first to get a whiff of the “October”’s location.) Drenched in salt water and almost unequalled in pace, this may be the best (as it was the first) of the adaptations to film of best-selling author Clancy’s thick, complex books.
The Hunt for Red October [Blu-ray] Overview
Widescreen/Blu-Ray. PG rating. Hunt For Red October. A contemplative thriller by early 1990’s standards, The Hunt For Red October was the first movie based on the successful Jack Ryan novels of Tom Clancy. Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. In the movie, Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders, and steers his sub Red October towards American waters, hoping to defect Robbed of much of the book’s Cold War appeal by the time of its release, the movie was nonetheless embraced by American audiences; it was among the ten highest-grossing movies of 1990.
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Before Harrison Ford assumed the mantle of playing Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan hero in Patriot Games, Alec Baldwin took a swing at the character in this John McTiernan film and hit one to the fence. If less instantly sympathetic than Ford, Baldwin is in some respects more interesting and nuanced as Ryan, and drawing comparisons between both actors’ performances can make for some interesting postmovie discussion. That aside, The Hunt for Red October stands alone as a uniquely exciting adventure with a fantastic costar: Sean Connery as a Russian nuclear submarine captain attempting to defect to the West on his ship. Ryan must figure out his true motives for approaching the U.S. McTiernan (Predator, Die Hard) made an exceptionally handsome movie here with action sequences that really do take one’s breath away. –Tom Keogh
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