Clear and Present Danger
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. more..
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny
Another fast, gripping spy story with some good tricks up its sleeve.
There is enough intrigue to keep it interesting, and if it ever feels too slow, try counting the number of people who get betrayed.
The plot alone is a thing of beauty.
An absorbing, if overlong adaptation of Tom Clancy's bestseller.
The storytelling is livelier and more engaging than previous adaptations of Clancy's turgid techno-thrillers.
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ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards (1995)
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Academy Awards (1995)
Best DVD Collection
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films (2004)
Favorite Actor - Action, On Video
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (1995)
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Cinema Audio Society (1995)
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