The Hunt for Red October
1990 Directed by John McTiernan
Synopsis
Invisible. Silent. Stolen.
When a Soviet nuclear sub headed toward American waters drops off U.S. scanners, the Yanks scramble to take defensive steps. But CIA analyst Jack Ryan convinces the brass that the sub's commander has something other than a first strike in mind. A perilous cat-and-mouse game ensues.
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Film 2 in The December Challenge: My Waterloo.
Submarine films always prove to be better than they have any right to be.
And this is no different. Directed by the director of Die Hard, this is no action movie. It is however a well paced, well acted, Cold War thriller. And who the fuck doesn't like them??
It is a bit "talky", but that is in no way a bad thing when you have the great Alec Baldwin and the greater Sean Connery delivering great, well written lines. And they keep you hooked until it all kicks off near the end.
The Hunt For Red October is now 22 years old. It has aged phenomenally well.
Exshellent.
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Submarine films always prove to be better than they have any right to be.
And this is no different. Directed by the director of Die Hard, this is no action movie. It is however a well paced, well acted, Cold War thriller. And who the fuck doesn't like them??
It is a bit "talky", but that is in no way a bad thing when you have the great Alec Baldwin and the greater Sean Connery delivering great, well written lines. And they keep you hooked until it all kicks off near the end.
The Hunt For Red October is now 22 years old. It has aged phenomenally well.
Exshellent.
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McTiernan constantly reorients you in a three-dimensional space by pulling focus rather than cutting or moving along the axis, opening and closing distances at will. if a submarine movie (or actually just operating a submarine) is about anything it's about quickly and precisely locating obstacles on a constant basis.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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I recently read Tom Clancy's source novel of this movie and I was only mildly entertained; his book wraps too much naval technobabble around a striking Cold War story, extremely simple in its concept: what would happen if a Russian nuclear submarine commander decided to defect to the United States? The Hunt for Red October is the answer to that question and if Clancy's novel doesn't quite deliver on the premise, John McTiernan thankfully manages to weave a relatively entertaining movie adaptation out of the work - he strips away plenty of the jargon or extraneous characters of the novel and closes in tighter on the central plot, to pretty decent effect. That said, this is no Crimson Tide.
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McTiernan of Predator and Die Hard fame reserves his action set-pieces for superbly handled political strategies in this suspenseful, intelligent paranoia drama. Connery and Baldwin square off in calculated, cunning mind games, there's a booming score from Poledouris, and piercing rains with underwater submarine claustrophobia add to all of that tension. It's astonishing how gripping this film is just by resorting to dialogue-driven sequences amongst the Russians and Americans. Connery also gives one of his most undervalued and mighty performances. Is he a madman seeking to destroy the US? Or is he looking for an unconventional way to defect? By being the most hot-eyed and stoic character physically, he's also very methodical, careful and calm. Only in a few instances…
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Nem egy mai darab, de imádom.
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Die Hard director John McTiernan's The Hunt for Red October is a solid enough action film cum Cold War thriller, but not onche does Sean Connery pash for Rushian.
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I never get tired of this flick.
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Arguably the ultimate cold war thriller, one of the best naval suspense films out there, and a great showcase for the director (John "Die Hard" McTiernan) and the fantastic case. Basil Poledouris' score is perfect every step of the way, and it's perhaps this movie more than any other than cements Jan De Bont as a great visualist (if not a great director). If the upcoming Jack Ryan reboot is anywhere near as good as this, I'll be ecstatic.
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In the 90s these Jack Ryan movies were huge. They had tons of high profile actors and were based on an incredibly popular series of books. Generally speaking, I would say that Harrison Ford's run in the two subsequent movie are the most popular. Patriot games and Clear & Present Danger are the films that most people seem to remember.
This movie is my favorite in the series. The editing and the acting are both tight. James Earl Jones brings a level of prestige and a sense of capability to the CIA that I don't think they have in the real world anymore. Somehow Sean Connery is able to pull off his Scottish accent while playing a Lithuanian captain of a… -
Me habían hablado tan bien de ella, que las expectativas eran muy altas y no las ha cumplido, esta bien para pasar el rato y poco mas
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Submarine films always prove to be better than they have any right to be.
And this is no different. Directed by the director of Die Hard, this is no action movie. It is however a well paced, well acted, Cold War thriller. And who the fuck doesn't like them??
It is a bit "talky", but that is in no way a bad thing when you have the great Alec Baldwin and the greater Sean Connery delivering great, well written lines. And they keep you hooked until it all kicks off near the end.
The Hunt For Red October is now 22 years old. It has aged phenomenally well.
Exshellent.
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McTiernan constantly reorients you in a three-dimensional space by pulling focus rather than cutting or moving along the axis, opening and closing distances at will. if a submarine movie (or actually just operating a submarine) is about anything it's about quickly and precisely locating obstacles on a constant basis.
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Absolutely superb Cold War Thriller from the Tom Clancy novel.
A Russian Commander steals their latest submarine and heads off for the US coastline. Is he planning an all out attack on the US or does he have other plans?
Sean Connery leads an star studded cast featuring Alec Baldwin, James Earl Jones, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, Fred Dalton Thompson, and Richard Jordan (no relation).