![]() No mere desk jockey, he’s soon on a plane to Bogota and man-on-man in the combat.Ĭharting an even balance between action and emotion, the screenwriting platoon (Donald Stewart, Steven Zaillian, John Milius) have skillfully crafted a big-screen actioner that is propelled not only by a cataclysmic and dangerous national situation but, perhaps more movingly, by one man’s strong sense of ethics. Honorable and decent Ryan soon finds himself holding the bag for a covert-action team that’s waging a deadly guerrilla war in the jungles of Colombia. ![]() ![]() Determined to keep a low profile and guard his flank, Ryan is nevertheless catapulted unsuspectingly into the midst of a clandestine war between the White House and the Colombian drug thugs. In this post Cold War-scenario, Ryan is promoted to interim deputy director of intelligence for the CIA as a result of his superior’s (James Earl Jones) ill health. The third in the fleet of Tom Clancy bestsellers brought to the screen by producers Mace Neufeld and Robert Rehme, Clear And Present Danger is a spit-polish, fast-moving action-thriller, retaining Clancy’s intricate plotting but throwing overboard his turgid techno-prose. ![]()
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