...a consistently watchable yet erratically-paced drama...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 22, 2023

It's a tad obsolete, but that does not impede it from being tremendously dynamic and entertaining. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 12, 2022

As an espionage thriller, I must say, it has a tension that runs against the clock like a torpedo under the sea as it outlines its plot of diplomacy and naval strategy in the twilight of the Cold War. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 25, 2022

If you liked the Cold War, you'll love The Hunt for Red October.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2021

...The Hunt for Red October still makes sense in a Boys' Own way even if the hopeful world described has long vanished...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2021

With enough of a corkscrew plot to keep anyone guessing and with plenty of edge-of-your-seat suspense, this high-stakes espionage thriller never misses a beat.

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

With a chilly majesty to its scale despite its confined locations, this is a supremely confident film with the courage of its convictions as the story slowly and steadily unfolds. 30 years on it still packs a powerful punch, the tension ratcheting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 10, 2018

It's to McTiernan's credit that so much of this is made intense. Every silence on board the Russian sub, whether they're squeaking through a narrow underwater canyon or sending out a single sonar ping, seems occasion to hold your breath.

| Oct 18, 2018

Coupled with Connery's magnetic performance, that's enough to make The Hunt for Red October as watchable today as it was during its 1990 release.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2018

the kind of action thriller that is rarely made today-one that emphasizes intellect and logic, intuition and political maneuvering over might and brawn

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

Clancy is known for writing difficult books, but the movie makes plausible a preposterous situation because of Baldwin's convincing, low-key approach to being a film hero.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 11, 2015

You may not be limp from accumulated tension when this hunt is over, but its cautiously upbeat global message leaves a satisfying glow and it operates with a crackerjack premise.

| Feb 11, 2015

The Hunt for Red October is a happy cinematic event, the first motion picture that allows us to experience the sweaty-palm thrills of the Cold War without worrying that the world will blow up this year.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2015

An exciting techno-suspense thriller with a hollow center.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2015

Though Hunt shows fitful signs of life, it lacks the human drama of Das Boot, the technical dazzle of The Abyss and the old-fashioned brio of Run Silent, Run Deep.

| Feb 11, 2015

Based on Tom Clancy`s phenomenally successful techno-thriller novel, The Hunt for Red October proves that a film can equal, if not surpass, the intrigue and excitement of the story it is based on.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 11, 2015

Like the nuclear submarine it's named after, The Hunt for Red October is big, shiny, and expensive. But it's also hard, cold, and cumbersome, just when it's trying hardest to be likable and even friendly.

| Feb 11, 2015

Red October is an idealized, dreamy fantasy of life in the business world-harmless as airplane reading, a bit dull on the big screen.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 11, 2015

This is first-rate adventure stuff, an all-missions-accomplished submarine movie.

| Feb 11, 2015

The Hunt for Red October is overplotted and sometimes implausible, but McTiernan's clipped style and lavish budget help it through the choppier waters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2015