Production Year: 1994 - Action & Adventure - Director: Phillip Noyce - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, James Earl Jones
This is another excellent Harrison Ford film, surrounding the war on drugs.
A friend of the US President is involved with, and then killed by a Colombian drug cartel, the Cali Cartel.
In retaliation the President indirectly orders the setting up of a team to destroy the cartel and all its members. Harrison Ford is cast as Dr Jack Ryan, the Deputy Director of Intelligence. The other members of the intelligence staff keep Ryan in the dark over the covert operations, but his persistence leads to him finding out the truth.
The film has a number of interesting twists in it and is extremely well directed and acted. The action shots are very well filmed and in some excellent locations.
The only part of the film I did not like was the sequence when dead Americans were being fetched home in coffins. This sad moment was done in extremely good taste, but unfortunately the backing music was the same music used in the traditional Hovis Bread advert and this completely ruined the moment for me.
If you enjoy political manoeuvring mixed with good fighting action then have a look at this film.
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