Rent It No good deed goes unpunished. That's the premise of Patriot Games (1992), the second of four Jack Ryan espionage thrillers to date, and the first of two to star Harrison Ford, following Alec Baldwin's film debut of the character in 1990's The Hunt for Red October . Patriot Games is significantly altered from Tom Clancy's novel, though on its own terms is reasonably adult and intelligent, despite one climax too many, a view of Irish-Catholic and British politics that's both muddled and simplistic at the same time, and occasional lapses into the unbelievable. Paramount's Blu-ray disc is, sorry to report, a major disappointment. Filmed in Panavision with a lot of shallow- and rack focus cinematography, Paramount Home Entertainment second-guessed consumer demands on the format by way over-processing the film with DNR. A high-definition theatrical trailer, also included as an extra, m... Read the entire review ...
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Rent It No good deed goes unpunished. That's the premise of Patriot Games (1992), the second of four Jack Ryan espionage thrillers to date, and the first of two to star Harrison Ford, following Alec Baldwin's film debut of the character in 1990's The Hunt for Red October . Patriot Games is significantly altered from Tom Clancy's novel, though on its own terms is reasonably adult and intelligent, despite one climax too many, a view of Irish-Catholic and British politics that's both muddled and simplistic at the same time, and occasional lapses into the unbelievable. Paramount's Blu-ray disc is, sorry to report, a major disappointment. Filmed in Panavision with a lot of shallow- and rack focus cinematography, Paramount Home Entertainment second-guessed consumer demands on the format by way over-processing the film with DNR. A high-definition theatrical trailer, also included as an extra, m... Read the entire review ...