Patriot Games (film)
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Directed by | Phillip Noyce |
Screenplay by |
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Based on | Patriot Games by Tom Clancy |
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Starring | |
Cinematography | Donald McAlpine |
Edited by | |
Music by | James Horner |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 117 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $45 million |
Box office | $178.1 million |
Patriot Games is a 1992 American
During production, Clancy repeatedly voiced his displeasure with his understanding of the script, in particular details of technical items to be shown onscreen and the 49-year-old Ford conflicting with his vision of Jack Ryan's age, but publicly stated his satisfaction once he actually saw a cut of the film a few weeks before it was released.
The film premiered in theaters in the United States on June 5, 1992, and spent two weeks as the No. 1 film, grossing $178.1 million worldwide at the box office. It received a generally positive reception from critics. It was followed by Clear and Present Danger (1994), with Ford, Archer, Jones and Birch reprising their roles.
Plot
Former
Miller is tried and convicted. As he is being transported to
Back in the United States, Ryan is informed about Miller's escape. Soon after, he narrowly survives an assassination attempt by Miller's accomplices, while Miller simultaneously targets Cathy while she drives home to
While Lord Holmes is at the Ryan residence to present Ryan's KCVO medal, a severe thunderstorm apparently knocks out the house's power. Ryan notices the boat-house lights are still on, and he is unable to radio any DSS agents or state troopers guarding the premises. He deduces the house's power was deliberately cut and fears an imminent attack. Ryan realizes that Holmes's assistant, Watkins, is the informant and forces him to reveal information. Outside, O'Donnell, Miller, and their team have killed all security personnel, then infiltrate the house. After Ryan and his Naval Academy associate, Lt. Commander Robby Jackson, eliminate several terrorists, Ryan lures O'Donnell, Miller, and Annette into pursuing him on open water in their waiting speed boats. Upon realizing it is a ruse, O'Donnell demands they return and complete their mission to abduct and ransom Holmes. Miller, crazed with revenge against Ryan, refuses, then fatally shoots O'Donnell and Annette. He leaps aboard Ryan's boat where a struggle ensues; Ryan kills Miller and jumps overboard just before the burning boat crashes into jutting rocks and explodes. An FBI Hostage Rescue Team arrives, rescuing Ryan.
Cast
- Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan
- Anne Archer as Cathy Ryan
- Patrick Bergin as Kevin O'Donnell
- Sean Bean as Sean Miller
- Thora Birch as Sally Ryan
- James Fox as Lord Holmes
- Samuel L. Jackson as Robby Jackson
- Polly Walker as Annette
- J. E. Freeman as Marty Cantor
- David Threlfall as Inspector Robert Highland
- James Earl Jones as Admiral Greer
- Richard Harris as Paddy O'Neil
- Hugh Fraser as Geoffrey Watkins
- Bob Gunton as interviewer (uncredited)
Production
Development and casting
The actors who played Jack and Caroline Ryan in The Hunt for Red October,
McTiernan initially wanted to follow The Hunt for Red October by directing an adaptation of Clear and Present Danger using a script written by John Milius.[15][16] After the studio opted to adapt Patriot Games, he declined to direct because of his Irish-American background. Walter Hill, Kevin Reynolds, and John Badham were considered to replace McTiernan. Badham was almost hired but asked for too high a fee, and Phillip Noyce was chosen instead. Donald Stewart returned from the first film to co-write the script with W. Peter Iliff.[4]
In the original novel, the assassination attempt was made on the
Filming
Shooting began on November 2, 1991. The budget was initially $28 million, but was raised to $40 million by Brandon Tartikoff. The movie was filmed on location in areas around London, at Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and at Pinewood Studios.[6] Scenes were also filmed at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.[18] Jack Ryan's home was filmed on the California coast and made to look like it was in Maryland.[19]
The scenes set at a terrorist camp in Libya were filmed in the desert near Brawley, California. To make the attack on the camp appear as infrared footage, actors wearing black body suits were filmed from a helicopter and the resulting video images were reversed in post-production.[20]
Patriot Games was the first movie to be allowed to film at the George Bush Center for Intelligence, CIA Headquarters.[21]
Filming also took place at Aldwych tube station (closed 1994), which was then only being used for weekday peak hour service, for a sequence later in the film.[22]
Test audiences in April 1992 responded negatively to the original ending, which had Jack Ryan and Sean Miller fighting underwater. The ending was re-shot with a more explosive finale.[23][24] The reshoots increased the film's production budget to $45 million,[25] and with the marketing budget included, the cost to the studio was $65 million.[4] While reshooting the scene, Harrison Ford accidentally hit Sean Bean with a boat hook; Bean has a scar over his eye as a result.[26]
Before seeing the film, numerous differences between the script and the novel caused Clancy to distance himself from the film production.[24] Clancy was unhappy with details of technical items scripted to be shown onscreen, and complained about the age of then-49-year-old Ford, as compared to the 34-year-old Baldwin, to portray his vision of Ryan.[4][27] During production he asked for his name to be taken off the film. He complained that the final attack scene was "unrealistic" and that he had not been shown any rushes. He said he was not sure a film of Clear and Present Danger would be made, as the script for Patriot Games meant it "will turn out so bad."[28] However, after meeting with Tartikoff and actually seeing a cut of the film, which did not – in fact – contain the details that Clancy mistakenly thought were going to be in the film, Clancy was "impressed with how the movie depicted the CIA’s intelligence-gathering process", and stated that he looked forward to working with the studio on the adaptation of Clear and Present Danger.[27]
Music
Patriot Games: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | ||||
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On June 9, 1992, the original motion picture soundtrack was released by the
In 2013, a 2-disc expanded soundtrack album was released by La-La Land Records. Limited to 3000 copies, the album contains over 50 minutes of previously unreleased music (including cues by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and John Philip Sousa).[30]
Reception
Critical response
On the
Roger Ebert called it "absorbing" while also commenting that Harrison Ford "once again demonstrates what a solid, convincing actor he is".[34] Chris Hicks of the Deseret News mentioned how director Noyce gave the film "flourish and tension" while star Harrison Ford injected "a commanding sense of decency and humanity to the role of CIA analyst Jack Ryan, making it his own."[35]
There was controversy associated with the specifics of a negative review by
Box office
Patriot Games grossed $83.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $94.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $178.1 million, against a budget of $45 million.[25] It debuted at No. 1 for the weekend of June 5, 1992,[38] repeated in the top spot in its second weekend, and spent its first six weeks in the Top 10 at the box office.[39]
Notes
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External links
- Patriot Games at IMDb
- Patriot Games at the TCM Movie Database
- Patriot Games at AllMovie