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Directed By
John McTiernan
Written By:
Larry Ferguson, Donald Stewart
Cast:
Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jordan, Scott Glenn, Joss Ackland, Sam Neill, James Earl Jones, Peter Firth, Tim Curry, Courtney B. Vance, Jeffrey Jones, Fred Dalton Thompson
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The Hunt for Red October (1990)
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Movie Review by AJ 
April 21st, 2006
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Tom Clancy character Jack Ryan's first big screen outing, The Hunt for Red October, has a rather lengthy running time, but for the most part, it blows right on by, almost effortlessly entertaining. The very next film McTiernan made after Die Hard, Red October is directed in the same kind of skillfull, operatic style. Its major problem is that McTiernan, working from a screenplay by Larry Ferguson and Donald Stewart, is never really able to create a protagonist as interesting as John McClane. Granted, Jack Ryan is a very different person, but there's not much to him other than what Alec Baldwin manages to breathe into the role. Of course, the most interesting character is the "villain" played so masterfully by Sean Connery; every scene he's in is brilliant. A very swift-paced, entertaining action movie which proves that McTiernan used to be the end-all, be-all of action movie directors.
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