Clear and Present Danger

1994

PG-13

2h 21m

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6.7/10

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Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.

Directors

Phillip Noyce

Writers

John Milius(screenplay by)

Steven Zaillian(screenplay by)

Donald E. Stewart(screenplay by)

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Harrison Ford

Willem Dafoe

Joaquim de Almeida

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Jack Ryan

John Clark

Col. Felix V. Cortez

CIA Deputy Director Robert Ritter

Harris Yulin

National Security Advisor James Cutter

President Bennett

Ernesto Escobedo

Captain Ramirez

Domingo Chavez

Judge Moore

Dr. Cathy Ryan

Sally Ryan

Moira Wolfson

Admiral James Greer

Senator Mayo

FBI Director Emile Jacobs

Greg Germann

Petey

Tim Grimm

Dan Murray

Directors

Phillip Noyce

Writers

John Milius(screenplay by)

Steven Zaillian(screenplay by)

Donald E. Stewart(screenplay by)

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7/10

Luckily, this final outing for Harrison Ford's "Jack Ryan" is far more entertaining that his previous "Patriot Games" shenanigans from 1992 - so the Queen Mother's other cousins can relax. This time, he is promoted into the shoes of his terminally ill mentor "Greer" (James Earl Jones) as Deputy Director of Intelligence at the CIA. Everyone is working on plans to shut down the infamous Cali drug cartel in Colombia, but it soon becomes clear that there are wheels within wheels in the US administration, traitors all over the shop, and "Ryan" looks certain to take the fall when the dominoes start to tumble. This is a solid espionage thriller, with a complex plot peppered with a few extended action scenes and some decent performances from Ford, Willem Dafoe as the betrayed enforcer "Clark" and the combination of Messrs. "Ritter" (Henry Czerny) and "Cutter" (Harris Yulin) make poor old "Jack" realise that he might well be safer on the side of the drug lords! It's a bit too long, and certainly it takes maybe thirty minutes of plot development to get going, but once it does it's a quality adaptation of a more cerebral story of corruption, deceit and ass-covering that still holds up thirty years later.

Geronimo196704 Jul, 2022