Involved in an illegal wars, Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst, who after the illness of his boss, who suffers from cancer, has taken a new position, the thing that makes his life in danger and brings terrible for him, as he is asked to find out the murder of his boss best friend and his family, who have murdered during sleeping.
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.
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.
In a film that opens with the sight of a waving American flag, subtlety may not be foremost on anyone's mind. But Mr. Ford's wary intelligence does wonders for a potentially one-dimensional character.
Washington Post
January 01, 2000
For what it is, Clear and Present Danger is fun to sit through.
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.
