Hunting for a Red October in January

Written by Mr Clancy and directed by one of my most favourite of directors John Mctiernan, who also directed Predator, Die Hard, Medicine Man, Last Action Hero and the grossly under estimated 13th Warrior.

The Hunt for Red October is a supposedly fictitious story about a state of the art soviet submarine at the end of the cold war. A crew consisting of Sam Niel, Tim Curry and Sean Connery take the helm in steering this film into a classic thriller, drama and action genre.


I don't believe films ever have one genre, instead branching into others to create something unique.

Continuing on.

Alec Baldwin is the star of this movie as Jack Ryan, a CIA Analyst who relunctantly leaves his desk thanks to James Earl Jones to do a little field work out there in the thick of it and try and help avoid a catastrophe that could provoke WWIII . I hate to say it but Baldwin of all the films i have seen him in he has only ever been good in 2, The Edge, and this.

There are some truly remarkable moments in this movie, not just with the visuals but the sound also, considering this film was made in 1990 alot of the mainstream hollywood directors should take note and learn what it is to make a good movie.

Granted this post sounds like a huge tribute to John McTiernan and his work, but seeing as he has made only 12 films since 1986 almost all of which have been instant classics you can understand why.