The Hunt for Red October

The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 American submarine spy thriller film directed by John McTiernan, produced by Mace Neufeld, and starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, and Sam Neill. The film is an adaptation of Tom Clancy's 1984 bestselling novel of the same name. It is the first installment of the film series with the protagonist Jack Ryan.

Plot
In November 1984, during the late Cold War era and involves a rogue Soviet naval captain who wishes to defect to the United States with his officers and the Soviet Navy's newest and most advanced nuclear missile submarine, a Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius is given command of Red October, a new Typhoon-class nuclear missile submarine with a stealth "caterpillar drive", rendering it undetectable to passive sonar. Meanwhile, CIA analyst Jack Ryan thinks Soviet nuclear submarine commander Captain Marko Ramius is planning to defect but only has a few hours to find him and the submarine.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It is the very first Jack Ryan film series that managed to stay faithful to the 1984 novel of the same name.
 * 2) Sean Connery gave amazing performances as Marko Ramius, Commanding officer of Red October (SSBN).
 * 3) Director John McTiernan gives a wonderful direction throughout the movie.
 * 4) The movie has a good pace throughout the movie.
 * 5) Besides Sean Connery, the acting is very good, especially for the cast members including Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan, CIA intelligence analyst, author, Professor of Naval History at the United States Naval Academy, and Joss Ackland as Andrei Lysenko, Soviet Ambassador to the United States.
 * 6) Very nice special effects, especially with the submarines.
 * 7) You arrogant ass. You've killed us!
 * 8) Awesome effects for the Submarines.
 * 9) Amazing soundtrack that was composed by Basil Poledouris.
 * 10) Wonderful cinematography.
 * 11) The scene where Jack Ryan goes on a shootout with Loginov right before the final submarine battle begins amazing.
 * 12) The final submarine battle scene with the torpedos is extremely awesome.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While the pacing is good, it sometimes can be pretty slow at times, considering the runtime is 135 minutes long.
 * 2) Some of the effects don't aged well.
 * 3) The story sometimes, can be very confusing to some people.

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" rating of 89% based on 72 reviews, with an average score of 7.70/10. The site's consensus states: "Perfectly cast and packed with suspense, The Hunt for Red October is an old-fashioned submarine thriller with plenty of firepower to spare." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 58 out of 100 based on 17 reviews, indicating "mixed or average views". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it "a skillful, efficient film that involves us in the clever and deceptive game being played", while Gene Siskel commented on the film's technical achievement and Baldwin's convincing portrayal of Jack Ryan. Nick Schager, for Slant magazine's review, noted, "The Hunt for Red October is a thrilling edge-of-your-seat trifle that has admirably withstood the test of time".

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