CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
A film review by Adam Taylor
Copyright 1994 Adam Taylor
Well, what can I say? Harrison Ford still hasn't done a bad movie; he must be one of the most successful actors ever. The movie CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER is a complicated political action/thriller. The main plot is that the US wants to get revenge on a Columbian who killed a US businessman, and also would like to stop drug smuggling from Columbia into the US.
Do not expect to go to this movie and just sit back and not think. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER in some parts is hard to follow so if you are expecting a easy-to-follow, "full-of-action" movie you may not want to see this one. It deals with more legal and political subjects than action, but this movie has a great finish and the acting is superb.
Although this film is mostly serious, some humour has been slipped into it to make it a bit more entertaining during the "slow" parts of the film. Harrison Ford plays Jack Ryan, who works for US intelligence and is forced to take over James Earl Jones's job as Deputy when James Earl Jones finds out he has cancer. Harrison Ford then falls into a deadly trap since he has to fly down to Columbia under the President of the US's orders to apprehend a man who is wanted for the murder of a woman working for him. Ford finds that this flight becomes a lot more dangerous than he expected since he barely gets out alive after many Columbians (from a drug smuggling clan) begin a small war by shooting at Ford's car and other vehicles around him. Ford does get out alive, but just barely.
The movie starts off quite slow but by the end you are into it since the action and suspense is classic (sort of like that of the previous Harrison Ford/Tom Clancy movie PATRIOT GAMES). This is not one of Ford's best movies, but I would say it is worth the 8 bucks to go see it since it is fit for the big screen, and it is a nice lengthy entertaining yet complicated movie.
Rating out of 10 - 7
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