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Patriot Games

1992

Phillip Noyce

Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean ...

6.3

36,652

Action. Thriller When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"I expected this one to be a little more cerebral (...) 'Patriot Games' at least has the virtue (...) of being about subjects more interesting than the character's sex lives (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"Directed with assurance by 'Dead Calm's Phillip Noyce and attractively played by the plausibly anxious principals (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"'Patriot Games' delivers the best possible version of a tale that boils down to nothing but gamesmanship"	NEU
United States	Joseph McBride Variety	"'Patriot Games' is an expensive stiff. Mindless, morally repugnant and ineptly directed"	NEG
United Kingdom	Brian Case Time Out	"So duff that you wonder why they didn't ask Roger Moore to star"	NEG
United Kingdom	Adam Mars-Jones The Independent	"It flounders from one absurdity to another, with results that are hilarious when they aren't insulting."	NEG
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"Noyce gets bogged down in the mass of technical detail (...) Ford's performance is the picture's only saving grace"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tom Hutchinson Radio Times	"Apart from one brilliant sequence (...) [it] never gets its act together to provide the direct appeal that all good action flicks should have (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"'Patriot Games' is serviceable entertainment, with some exciting action set pieces, but it’s also stolid and prosaic"	NEU

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