Tom Clancy/Harrison Ford Movie: ***^ Patriot Games (1992)

Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) is back and quickly becomes a hero when he says a British Royal from attack.  In his heroics he kills a terrorist.  The brother of the terrorist, Sean Miller (Sean Bean) is now gunning for Ryan, and his family, wife Cathy (Anne Archer) and daughter Sally (Thora Birch).  Sean Miller is the muscle while the head of the group is Kevin O'Donnell (Patrick Bergin) and his girlfriend Annette (Polly Walker).  Turns out she is a liability as the head of the Irish Republican Army, Paddy O'Neil (Richard Harris) will not turn on a fellow Irishman but she is British.  So through her they are able to track them down in Libya.  They mount an operation, but it misses them.  Instead the attack the Ryan residence when the Royal is there.  Lord Holmes (James Fox) is visiting.  Holmes' secretary Watkins (Hugh Fraser) is a traitor and Miller and the team are coming.  

This movie is more intense than the other Jack Ryan movies.  There is more swearing and more violence, and it earned an R rating.  Samuel Jackson and James Earl Jones also have parts, Jackson as Ryan's boss and Jones as director of the CIA.

James Bond Movie: **** Goldeneye (1995)

 We have a new James Bond in Pierce Brosnan.  We also have the first woman M (Judi Dench), and a new actor play Miss Moneypenny (Samantha Bond).  Q is the same showing his gadgets.  Our villain turns out to be 006/ Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), who appears to die at the beginning of the movie.  Trevelyan is helped by Xenia Onatopp (Famke Jansen) who has many methods of killing including a good squeeze.  She kills with sexualized passion.  For his part, Bond refuses to die.  He is helped by Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco), who escaped alive from the first use of the Goldeneye satellite, which fries all electronics.  She worked at a satellite dish which was used to control the device, but then targeted.  This time financial markets will be the target allowing them to steal assets without being seen as the device will destroy all records.  Bond's job is to prevent this.  Jake Wade (Joe Don Baker) with th CIA helps.  Boris Grishenko (Alan Cumming) also helps Trevelyan as the inside computer geek who worked with Simonova.  

This movie has a chase scene, Bond in am army tank trying to rescue Simonova.  He runs over lots of car, and even puts the tank in front of a train for a spectacular collision.  

This movie continues the Bond fun and action.  There are plane crashes Bond walks away from, and lots of shooting.  And the effects of electrical pulses.  

Movie Review: **** National Treasure (2004)

National Treasure           

This is a very exciting ride, and it includes enough intellectual history trivia to peak my interest.  This movie features Ben Gates (Nicholas Cage) and Riley Poole (Justin Bartha) trying to find a great national treasure which was hid by the Masons about the time of the Revolutionary War.  The Gates family has been searching for the treasure for several generations, all with the clue that it has something to do with the Columbia.  And so we see Gage and Poole in the Arctic, where they find an old ship, in which they find what looks like a pipe.  They are double crossed by the financier, Ian Howe (Sean Bean) for their venture and left for dead in the Arctic.  However they make it back  The clues they found in the ship leads them to look at the Declaration of Independence, so they can expose a secret map on the back of the document.  Both groups, Howe and his henchmen, and Gage (Gage to keep it from Howe) decide to steal the document to continue hunting for the treasure.  In doing this, they meet Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger) who works for the National Archives.  The stealing of the document is very exciting, and bits both groups against each other.  The FBI is now on their trail, so they turn to their Gage’s father (Jon Voight) for help.  He does not believe in the quest, but he has some old letters they need to.  They find writing on the back, a series of codes, but need more information, so they are off to Philadelphia where they are still pursued by Howe.  They find some glasses to help with the deciphering of the script on the back of the Declaration of Independence, while Howe gets the actual document from them.  Gage is arrested by the FBI, but to get the Declaration he is allowed to meet Howe.

This journey is one good ride.  I especially like the action and they little bits of knowledge which are thrown in as part of the clues they find.  Very fun