The other day, I watched the movie Patriot Games. The action film was released in 1992. It was based on Tom Clancy's novel with the same title. The lead is Harrison Ford.
The story follows Jack Ryan, a former CIA
analyst, who and whose families Sean Miller, an IRA member, persistently
assaults in order to avenge his little brother's death because Ryan had killed
his brother.
I had watched it a few times years ago. The computers, which the characters use in it, had looked advanced
when it was released, however, I felt nostalgia for and laughed at how dated the
computers are, especially the bulky shape of them. Then watching Sean Bean as
Sean Miller, I remembered that I had felt déjà vu when I saw James McAvoy playing
the lead character in the movie It Chapter Two. I felt that the two actors looked very similar and I thought that
they must be a father and his son, so I checked them on the internet. They actually are an English and a Scot respectively. They are not even related. I was
kind of disappointed at the fact that they resemble each other merely because
both of them were born in the United Kingdom. I was caring about such things
that have nothing to do with the story watching the movie partly because I had done it several
times already.
The movie is good as an action. In the Jack
Ryan movie series in the 1990s, I prefer The
Hunt for Red October to it but I like it better than Clear and Present Danger. The three movies are nearly equal in
terms of the fun, though. I think that Alec Baldwin is the most proper Jack
Ryan actor because of his sophisticated air among the ones including Ben
Affleck in The Sum of All Fears
released in 2002.
Harrison Ford looks cooler as a fighting man,
such as Han Solo and Deckard in Blade Runner, than as Ryan in it. I associated Ford playing well as the president
of the United States, who fights against the terrorists in the jet plane, in Air Force One with Ford as Ryan
fighting the IRA members toward the end of it. I got only a
feeling of strangeness when I watched Ford as Ryan in suit sitting in front of
his personal computer in the sequel, Clear
and Present Danger, though that is based on my selfish idea of wishing Ford
to always play rough. Sadly, Ford did not look as good as Sylvester Stallone
and Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Expendables 3. It could not be helped
because of the differences among their muscles.