Slow-to-start and long-to-end espionage thriller (or the further adventures of Dr. Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy's CIA guy from Patriot Games), detailing a covert and illicit military action against the Colombian drug cartels. There's a well-staged ambush at around the hour mark (sole survivor: Harrison Ford), and an exciting rescue near the finish, and strong supporting parts for Willem Dafoe, James Earl Jones, Harris Yulin, Donald Moffat (President of the United States), and Ann Magnuson, but not for Anne Archer: very much farther in the wings as the Woman Who Waits. There's also a large dose of bottled cynicism out of the medicine cabinet of John le Carré, and its frequent buffer, cherry-flavored self-righteousness. Directed by Phillip Noyce. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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