The Hunt for Red October (Special Collector's Edition)
Based on Tom Clancy's bestseller, directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard) and starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER sweats with high-tech anxiety and the tension of men who hold Doomsday in their hands. A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius (Connery). The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst (Baldwin) has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find him, too. The hunt is on!
Before Harrison Ford assumed the mantle of playing Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan hero in Patriot Games, Alec Baldwin took a swing at the character in this John McTiernan film and hit one to the fence. If less instantly sympathetic than Ford, Baldwin is in some respects more interesting and nuanced as Ryan, and drawing comparisons between both actors' performances can make for some interesting postmovie discussion. That aside, The Hunt for Red October stands alone as a uniquely exciting adventure with a fantastic costar: Sean Connery as a Russian nuclear submarine captain attempting to defect to the West on his ship. Ryan must figure out his true motives for approaching the U.S. McTiernan (Predator, Die Hard) made an exceptionally handsome movie here with action sequences that really do take one's breath away. --Tom Keogh
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The Hunt for Red October (Special Collector's Edition) Reviews
And Blu-ray only makes it better, especially in surround sound. This story follows Clancy's actual writing more closely than the other films based on his novels. We loved the increased definitionbut mostly the SOUND. Having already had Hunt for Red October on tape and DVD, it was totally necessary to get this Blu-Ray DVD. A movie for the entire family to delight and be thrilled with. Absolutely PC-ized version of a story). Very interesting, and a great film that the entire family can view, but, with three scenes of "dispatching a character via firearm," maybe the very youngest should be shielded from watching. I prefer Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan (more age and "gravitas") but Baldwin does a credible job here.
So good was the sound, that we got a soundtrack CDalso from Amazon. Absolutely NO "gender interaction," so no explanation of "birds and bees" is necessary, and finally, ALL the roles are played by superb character actors. (Also have all of Clancy's books in hardcover, and would pay a King's Ransom for ALL of his movies to be FAITHFULLY made into block-buster movies and put onto Blu-Ray). (Particularly "bad" is the latest, Sum of all Fears.
The ocean looks great on the silver screen, or your TV for that matter. Sean Connery was the original and coolest James Bond but it was not all downhill from those glory days. The story is the fantastical stuff of nerdy military loving, rightwing Cold War warriors' sweaty dreams. I think Tom Clancy books are a dime a dozen but they got at least one decent escapist flick out of 'em. There are a few famous faces that grace the screen in this one: Darth Vader's voice, a Senator and 2008 presidential candidate.
The ocean and ships sort of steal the show in these things though when you think about it. Connery's performance THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER disproves Sick Boy's theory (along with a few others in his career btw). There's a period in your life, probably when you were younger, when you could have had *it* but then you loose *it* and are past your prime. This is the most cinematic and well made Jack Ryan film.
Ford looks old. Affleck looks like Affleck. Well, the other character listening to this was right to feel unimpressed by this cocky punk's disrespectful and plainly dumb understanding of human accomplishment. Alec Baldwin is also good, his take on CIA agent Jack Ryan much more compelling than Harrison Ford's or Ben Affleck's. Basically he believes that for everybody in life at one point you got it, then you don't.
Some punk junkie named Sick Boy in the the Danny Boyle cult classic TRAINSPOTTING espouses a "theory" of his in which he uses the career of Sean Connery to illustrate.
EXCELLENT MOVIE A MUST FOR SEAN CONNERY FANS.I RECEIVED THE DVD PROMPTLY AND WILL CERTAINLY PURCHASE AGAIN.THIS IS A MOVIE I HAD SEEN MANY TIMES AND HAD BEEN SEARCHING FOR IT FOR A LONG TIME.
Hopefully they haven't screwed up the Blue Ray edition. The picture quality is atrocious. The Hunt for Red October (Special Collector's Edition). A disgruntled customer and pissed at Paramount for allowing this to happen. I have been replacing my favorites with DVDs and Red October was my latest purchase.
Paramount should be ashamed of themselves. I will probably throw it in the trash. . Unfortunately, I gave my old Laser disk player and movies away months ago. I am, Peter Harrison. DO NOT BUY THIS MOVIE IN DVD FORMAT.
Of course its a classic film. Just by the DVD, you won't miss the extra static contained in the higher definition version here. Worst transfer to a "high-definition" format that I've seen so far.
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