Patriot Games Blu-ray | Action Thriller Movie Starring Harrison Ford | Perfect for Movie Nights & Home Theater Collections

Phillip Noyce’s Patriot Games 1992 film, “Patriot Games,” adapts the 1987 novel of the same name by Tom Clancy. Though a sequel to the 1990 film, “The Hunt for Red October,” the original book was a prequel. The film recast the roles of Jack and Catherine Ryan, with Harrison Ford and Anne Archer replacing Alec Baldwin and Gates McFadden, respectively. James Earl Jones returns as Admiral James Greer, though. The story begins with Jack Ryan witnessing and intervening an attempted kidnapping of Lord William Holmes (James Fox), the British Minister of State for Northern Ireland. In the course of the kidnapping attempt, Ryan is shot and he kills one of the would-be kidnappers. The police subdue Sean Miller (Sean Bean), the brother of the man Ryan killed. After a trial, Ryan returns to the U.S. where he teaches at the Naval Academy. Miller wants revenge and escapes English custody, taking his rogue IRA group with him in an attempt on both Ryan and his family’s lives. They fail again, but Ryan’s daughter is severely injured. Ryan returns to the CIA to search for Miller’s group, who have relocated to a training camp in Northern Africa. Ryan analyzes the data in order to find their location, but Miller’s core leadership have traveled back to the U.S. where Ryan plans to host Lord Miller for dinner during his U.S. trip, leading to a tense confrontation on the Maryland coast. The story is a solid continuation of the Jack Ryan franchise, balancing several moving plot threads and using excellent actors to bring to life the characters unique to this story. Noyce succeeded well enough that he returned to the franchise 2 years later with 1994’s “Clear and Present Danger,” a second outing with Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan.