Clear and Present Danger (Limited Edition Steelbook) [4K UHD
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Clear and Present Danger (Limited Edition Steelbook) [4K UHD +Blu-Ray]
This is the third film based on Tom Clancy’s high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992’s Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Reaganesque Donald Moffat) is murdered by a Colombian drug cartel. When Ryan discovers that the President’s wealthy friend was in league with the cartel, the President’s devious national security adviser (Harris Yulin) and an ambitious CIA deputy director (Henry Czerny) send a secret paramilitary force into Colombia to wipe out the drug lords. The force is captured and then abandoned by the President’s lackeys. It falls to Ryan to enter Colombia and rescue them, aided only by a renegade operative named Clark (Willem Dafoe), with both his life and career on the line.
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Clear and Present Dange
I believe that Harridon Ford did an outstanding job in this movie. I also believe that James Earl Jones, and the other cast members were superb in their portrayals they played. It just shows us what A government is capable of.
“Clear and Present Danger” is, in my opinion, the best film adaptation of a Tom Clancy novel.
I enjoyed “The Hunt for Red October” and the other movies made from his books but they, frankly, paled in comparison to the novels. They lacked the richness of detail that are hallmarks of Clancy’s books.
In “Clear and Present Danger,” however, that’s not the case. The director and producers have assembled a top-flight cast and have taken the time to pay a great deal of respect to the nuances of Clancy’s political thriller.
Harrison Ford is great as CIA analyst Jack Ryan but, for me, Willem Dafoe as a former CIA operative now living in Panama, and Joaquim de Almeida, as a former military intelligence officer now working for a drug cartel, give the best performances in the movie. Dafoe is just world-weary enough to trust no one very much and some of his early scenes with Ford really crackle with venom. De Almeida is very smooth as the self-assured strategist for a volatile drug lord and is quietly ruthless throughout the movie.
It’s a long movie but, then again, it’s based on a long book and it needs a certain amount of time to properly tell the story so, in my opinion, this is not a drawback.
It comes down to this: If you have an attention span greater than a 14-year-old Twitter fanatic you should give “Clear and Present Danger” a chance to draw you into a world few of us will – thankfully – never know. If you do I think you’ll agree that this is one very fine example of film making
Paramount studios released this third adaptation of the Tom Clancy character CIA analyst Jack Ryan, here again played by Harrison Ford, with Anne Archer back as his wife and Thora Birch as his daughter. Once again directed by Philip Noyce and co-starring for the third and last time James Earl Jones. Story sees Jack Ryan as acting CIA Deputy Director investigating the murder of a friend of the President (played by Donald Moffatt) which leads into a much larger conspiracy involving Columbian drug lords and unauthorized US entanglements that force him to clear both the air and his name…
Looking just fine in HD (I am at present unable to view the UHD disc) porting over the extras from the DVD, though nothing new was added. Good (if a bit too long) action thriller rounded out what became a trilogy of stories, as Ford did not return despite this film’s success, instead being rebooted (multiple times!) long after. A shame that, but let’s enjoy what we have regardless.
A very timely Tom Clancy story as relevant today as when it was written…maybe even more so. Solid performances by all and the late, great James Horner delivered a magnificent score. Along with Hunt for Red October, Clear and Present Danger is probably one of the two best movie adaptations of his work. The only nitpick I have that pertains to this offering and other 4k UHD offerings is the “Digital Code” claim at the top of the package without any disclaimer that the code is time sensitive and expired, which it had, after I purchased the disc. An asterisked footnote on the back of the package stating when the code expires should be mandatory for all studios to include since it tends to be a critical reason for many when considering purchasing the disc.