The story is satisfyingly complex and the characters have been developed beyond the two-dimensional ciphers that usually serve in this kind of movie.

| Feb 1, 2024

Harrison Ford is on commanding form for his second outing as CIA troubleshooter Jack Ryan and director Phillip Noyce makes a much better job of this than he did of The Saint.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 25, 2024

...a methodically-paced yet mostly gripping political thriller...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 14, 2023

With Ford leading the way, Clear and Present Danger is still by far the most consistently entertaining and engaging take on Clancy’s beloved literary character.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2022

This is a guy movie; jam-packed with politics, CIA scheming, special forces sniping, and a smart bomb dropped by an F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet on a Colombian drug lord's daughter's quinceañera. In other words, a REAL murder Hornet.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2020

Plot suffocates the film. Simply too much happens.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 14, 2020

The premise is a fairly standard backstabbing and covert operations blend, but the details are substantial.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 11, 2020

In both novel and film, Ryan is the moral centre, but the film jettisons the book's range of supporting characters whose differing values help define his position.

| Feb 6, 2020

both cutting in its indictment of how power corrupts even the best intentions and bravely optimistic in asserting that, not only can one maintain one's sense of honor and integrity in a rigged system, but very possibly make all the difference in the world

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 17, 2018

'90s book-based political thriller has violence, language.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 10, 2018

Having figured out how to make a Jack Ryan action thriller with Patriot Games, the same cluster of filmmakers got to do it again... managing to improve virtually across the board.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 21, 2014

Ford's second and final appearance as Jack Ryan is a sprawling thriller.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 9, 2012

Well crafted if utterly conventional action thriller (third in Tom Clancy's series), whose best asset is Harrison Ford's star turn.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 23, 2012

None of it is uplifting or tells us something fresh, but it passes as easy viewing entertainment.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 6, 2010

This is the third movie with Jack as its hero, so he is a known quantity -- a humanist spook with an overdeveloped moral sense -- but Ford, playing the part for the second time, knows how to keep his earnestness fresh.

| Jan 13, 2010

It's a formula film with a typically dubious political message, but the storytelling is livelier and more engaging than previous adaptations of Clancy's turgid techno-thrillers.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 13, 2010

Narrative complexity and momentum make this a true cinematic equivalent of an absorbing page-turner.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2008

Passable entertainment

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 4, 2007

High energy Harrison Ford in another installment of spy series.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2007

There's a glimmer of interest in the film's ideological contortions, but as a commercial action thriller this is inflated and sluggish.

| Feb 9, 2006