Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst, is thrust right in the middle of a power struggle within the Colombian drug cartel after one of the President's "life long" friends is murdered, apparently in retaliation for stealing money as part of a money laundering scheme for the cartel. Jack is then appointed acting Deputy Director of Intelligence, CIA, upon the terminal illness of Admiral James Greer, former DDI, and quickly gets in over his head due to his political naivete. The situation rapidly deteriorates when some of the presidents men convince the President to conduct covert actions against the cartel, in direct violation of congress. Felix Cortez, the security chief of Ernesto Escobeda, the "victim" of the missing money, is one of the cartel boss's. Cortez tries to play both sides, appearing to inform Escobeda about the CIA's involvement in the covert operations against him, while trying to orchestrate a coup to take over the cartel, with Cortez as it's sole boss. James Cutter, the President's National Security Advisor, makes his own deal with Cortez, with the Presidents knowledge, and halts communications to the covert troops still in Colombia, through the Deputy Director of Operations, CIA, Robert Ritter. Ryan ends up going to Colombia to rescue the covet ops troops with the help of field agent John Clark, but not before some fence mending between the two, being that Ritter blamed Ryan for the comm outage, with Clark's men subsequently being captured by Cortez's mercenaries.
CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
Harrison Ford plays again the agent Jack Ryan, in this good, but a little unsuccessful, sequence for "Patriot Games". Directed by Philip Noyce, the same film maker who conducted the first one of the series and counting with an interesting supporting cast, "Clear and Present Danger" deserves to be seen, specially for a few excellent action moments (there is a particular impressive part, in which the CIA agents are caught between a shooting among the traffickers) and for the nice Harrison Ford's performance. If you didn't check the original, I recommend you to rent "Patriot Games" first, so you can understand the story.The bad points reside in the bad rhythm and in the confused direction by Noyce, who made a great work in "Patriot Games", but here accomplishes a decent, but not memorable work.Harrison Ford is a good actor and he has presence, but his character doesn't seem tough and hard enough.
At first it looks like a banal drug film with some CIA agents trying to find out who killed a couple of people and why, people who were personal friends of the President of the US. Just that makes things tricky, I mean the fact that the victims were friends of the President of the US. Be discreet Jack. But things are also trickier than they look and I don&#39;t want to tell you the film. I am just going to give a few ideas about politics first. A politician always lies, by definition and by principle. It sounds pessimistic and it is. Never believe a politician, no matter what side he is on and what side you are on. A politician will always do what the circumstances will make him do under pressure. If he is wise he will listen to his advisers and he will think then. If he is not wise he will run into the wall and push with his head. He may break through, but anyway afterwards he will tell you tall tales. The second element is that you have to serve politicians, no matter what and just try to cover your back and by back I mean under your lower back. You can serve them well it does not matter. If there is a problem you will be the fuse. If the problem was big, you may be the fuse, but the politicians will get it on their heads. But that will not give you what you deserve: a medal and a premium for serving them well. The film brings up another line of reflection. Politicians do not give a damn about the life of the people who are defending the country or who are fighting just or unjust wars for their country. Politicians consider these fighters as pawns on their chessboard and if they die they are collateral victims of their own game. Too bad for them they were those who had to die. If they died with honor they might get some coverage and recognition, otherwise they might get buried under a pile of rocks in some jungle. Their families will be handed a casket full of stones. But beyond these fighters in uniform do not believe civilians are in any way considered in this matter. Civilians are not even collateral damage. They are just collateral garbage. And unluckily that&#39;s the fundamental point here. Who cares about children, women, and plain civilians. They should not have been here in the first place. Good riddance, next time they will not be dumb enough to be present on a future mass crime scene. That&#39;s how you get out of that film. And the last scene will not change anything. There is no justice in such a situation. You may see the politician who exploited you fall because his arrogance brings him down, but that will not be justice for you who will have footed the bill of that liar. So make up your mind and just accept to be used, over-used and abused by politicians: that&#39;s their fundamental function and you are a sucker by definition since you are not in politics.<br/><br/>Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
Enjoyable, but it's a shallow enjoyment.
Clear and Present Danger is based on the 1989 novel of the same title by American author Tom Clancy. It is a sequel to two other films featuring Jack Ryan: <a href="/title/tt0099810/">The Hunt for Red October (1990)</a> (1990) and <a href="/title/tt0105112/">Patriot Games (1992)</a> (1992). Yet another sequel, <a href="/title/tt0164184/">The Sum of All Fears (2002)</a> was released in 2002. The novel was adapted for the movie by screenwriters Donald Stewart, Stephen Zailllian, and John Milius. A reboot of the franchise started with <a href="/title/tt1205537/">Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)</a> in 2014. No. Clear and Present Danger works as an independent story from all of the previous films. The only carryover question from Patriot Games is the gender of Jack (<a href="/name/nm0000148/">Harrison Ford</a>) and Cathy (<a href="/name/nm0000271/">Anne Archer</a>) Ryan&#39;s about-to-be-born child (a son). In the film, when discussing the problem of the South American drug cartels in the U.S., President Bennett (<a href="/name/nm0595567/">Donald Moffat</a>) says that they represent a &quot;clear and present danger&quot; to the national security of the United States. The phrase comes from a legal opinion by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and deals with the circumstances under which the government may legally regulate speech. Holmes offered the standard that speech can be regulated when it will create a situation which constitutes a &quot;clear and present danger&quot; that the government has an interest in preventing. The hypothetical example used by Holmes was falsely shouting &quot;fire&quot; in a crowded theater. Such a situation is punishable by the government since, in this case, the speech would present a clear (easily foreseeable) and present (imminent) danger that people in the theater would get hurt in an effort to flee a fictitious fire. The flag was that of Panama. The reason why the Colombians put up the flag was to show that they were Panamanian and that the coast guard had no jurisdiction to stop them. However the US Coast Guard has agreements with many countries around the world such that they can stop any ship they feel is suspicious. The boat was registered to the US, so the Coast Guard had an incontrovertible reason to stop it. Cortez (<a href="/name/nm0021835/">Joaquim de Almeida</a>) killed Moira (<a href="/name/nm0005174/">Ann Magnuson</a>) because she was a loose end who could potentially identify him if ever there was an investigation into who knew FBI director Emile Jacobs (<a href="/name/nm0848716/">Tom Tammi</a>) was going to Colombia. Moira didn&#39;t know Cortez&#39;s real name, but she could have put a face to the file that the CIA/DEA already had for him. Moira was also a &quot;honeypot&quot; as she was unknowingly feeding Cortez detailed information through her intimate relationship with him. Jack Ryan&#39;s real name is John Patrick Ryan. Jack is a nickname for John, just as Bob is a nick for Robert. It&#39;s the Largo from the Symphony N°9 (aka New World Symphony) by Antonin Dvorák and commonly known as Going Home, a standard tune for pipe bands to play at funerals for police officers and military personnel. So far, Clancy has written 12 novels that feature Jack Ryan. They are: The Hunt for Red October (1984), Patriot Games (1987), The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988), Clear and Present Danger (1989), The Sum of All Fears (1991), Without Remorse (1993), Debt of Honor (1994), Executive Orders (1996), Rainbow Six (1998) (mention only), The Bear and the Dragon (2000), Red Rabbit (2002), and The Teeth of the Tiger (2003). Of the 12 books in the Ryan-universe, five have so far been made into movies—<a href="/title/tt0099810/">The Hunt for Red October (1990)</a> (1990), <a href="/title/tt0105112/">Patriot Games (1992)</a> (1992), Clear and Present Danger, <a href="/title/tt0164184/">The Sum of All Fears (2002)</a> (2002), and <a href="/title/tt1205537/">Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)</a> (2014). <a href="/title/tt0499097/">Without Remorse</a> is currently in development without an expected release date.
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