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The Hunt for Red October

1990

John McTiernan

Alec Baldwin, Sean Connery, Sam Neill, Scott Glenn ...

7.1

58,256

Action. Mystery While engaging in an intricate series of military exercises in the North Atlantic, the respected captain and selected crew members of a Soviet nuclear missile submarine announce their plan to defect to the USA.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"An exercise in military and diplomatic strategy in which the players are all smart enough that we can't take their actions for granted.(...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Though Hunt shows fitful signs of life, it lacks the human drama of Das Boot, the technical dazzle of The Abyss and the old-fashioned brio of Run Silent, Run Deep"	NEU
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"A terrific adventure yarn"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Charity Time Out	"McTiernan guides us surely threough the convolutions of an admittedly over-complicated plot, and adeptly links hi-tech with character"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The movie finally is never very convincing. Even the special effects aren't great. Connery, however, wears the movie as if it were a favorite old hat."	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"'The Hunt for Red October' is colorful and exciting, yet unless you’re a young moviegoer, nothing in it takes you by complete surprise."	POS

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