In addition to Han Solo and Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford had one of best action roles ever in this underrated 1994 action movie. Find out why it still holds up.
Thirty years ago this month, the movie version of Tom Clancy’s 1989 novel Clear and Present Danger sailed into theaters with Harrison Ford as the author’s iconic hero, Jack Ryan. Ford had previously taken over the role from Alec Baldwin for 1992’s Patriot Games, but Clear and Present Danger marked his final appearance as Ryan.
Clancy’s premise of the U.S. government funding a shadow war against a cartel was all too believable against this backdrop. It also seems to predict the way that the government attempted to downplay or deny misconduct from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq a decade after the movie came out. The supporting cast is stellar … but doesn’t get much to do In 2024, a film that had Willem Dafoe, James Earl Jones, Benjamin Bratt, and Anne Archer backing up Ford would be considered an all-star cast. It was just as loaded in 1994 when Clear and Present Danger came out. But aside from Dafoe’s heroic turn as John Clark, most of the big-name supporting cast members don’t get much to do.
At the time, this may not have been an issue to moviegoers, but it’s something that’s very noticeable during a rewatch. It’s only two hours and 21 minutes long, but it somehow feels longer. An overlong drama is bad enough, but a slow-moving action movie feels lethal.
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