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The Hunt for Red October

Sam Neill (Actor), James Earl Jones (Actor), John McTiernan (Director) Rated:
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4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 19,297 ratings
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Genre Action, Thriller
Format Anamorphic, Color, Multiple Formats, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled, Closed-captioned
Contributor Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sean Connery, Sam Neill, John McTiernan
Language English, French
Runtime 2 hours and 15 minutes
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Based on Tom Clancy's bestseller, "The Hunt for Red October" seethes with high-tech excitement and the tension of men who hold Doomsday in their hands. A new, technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. The entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find him, too. 1990 135 min

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 1.6 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2237068
  • Director ‏ : ‎ John McTiernan
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Anamorphic, Color, Multiple Formats, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled, Closed-captioned
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 15 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ May 18, 2010
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Sam Neill, James Earl Jones, Scott Glenn, Alec Baldwin, Sean Connery
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (DTS 5.1)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00008K76U
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 19,297 ratings

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"This submarine ain't big enough for your lips and my accent."
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"This submarine ain't big enough for your lips and my accent."
SPOILERS... maybe?This was a fun movie to watch. Definitely not a nuanced political assessment of Cold War politics but good drama, good story and so awesome to watch the submarines scooting around under water. Also, what a treat to see Dr. Crusher out of uniform and enjoy James Early Jones's dulcet tones. I miss that man. Keep your eye out for submarine super sleuth Seaman Jones, my favorite character who saves the day via his ear hole after raiding the 99 cent reading glasses bin at Walgreens. Dr. Alan Grant of Jurassic Park actually attempts a Russian accent as Connery's second in command and confirmed my suspicions of my own psychic powers when I predicted perfectly his last line. Test yourself @ 2:00:14 on the Amazon Prime version!A few "say what?" moments that I chose to roll with: 1) pretty campy to have all the Soviets played by American/British/Scottish actors. I like the cinematic world post-Inglorious Bastards where language barriers are embraced and add an extra tension to the narratives. Yeah, sub titles are extra work but if you want to gain insight into the human experience from your movies it's worth the sweat. 2) In their own corners Connery & Baldwin were fantastique but when they finally got together in the last few scenes their bro-ey chemistry obliterated the simmering tension that made the rest of the movie. Those guys need to do a comedy together. Or a Broadway play. 3) Baldwin's resting Blue Steel face. In those close ups meant to convey concerned reflection all I can hear is, "Lemon!". I always thought that lip purse was affected but in fact... that's just his face.In sum, perfect for a night of soothing entertainment. If you can get down with ridiculous accents, cool water machines, naval uniforms and chest hair, this is a worthwhile watch.
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K.L.
5.0 out of 5 stars Cold war classic!
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2024
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Anything with Sean Connery is guaranteed to be good, in my opinion. Add to that a complex plot development, great cast, and a rich musical score, and you have an excellent movie experience. If you are too young to have experienced the tension and intrigue of the cold war, this is your best introduction. An enjoyable movie, either way. Many years ago I worked alongside some Nuclear Navy submarine veterans. They had all enjoyed the movie, although they complained that the bridge and other compartments were unrealistically spacious in the Hollywood version. Also, the sonar “pings” in the movie are the dainty Hollywood version of reality. It’s worth searching youtube for videos with actual sonar sounds. I’m glad they weren’t realistic in the movie - the reality is something between a banshee scream and fingernails on the chalkboard. Anyhow, I strongly recommend the movie!
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David
5.0 out of 5 stars great submariner movie (1990), for Sean Connery fans (if you ignore his accent)
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2024
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Great early 1990's film, a work of fiction based on Tom Clancy's novel, set in late 1970's or early 1980's. Starring Sean Connery, with a great supporting cast including: Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, Richard Jordan, & (co-star) Alec Baldwin, etc. One of my favorite naval submarine movies, a classic, although it may be a bit more action/sci-fi (like a comic-book?) or free with 'dramatic license' compared to a serious period drama such as "Das Boot" (aka 'The Boat', a German WW2 U-boat movie circa 1981)... "Red October" (1990) has great film pacing, with fluid scenes, clean dialogue, & really cool practical submarine effects (used large hand-made models; with special lighting, supported by clear mono-filament 'fishing' line, smoke instead of actual water, with computer controlled cameras per Industrial Light & Magic aka ILM, a division of Lucasfilm), this is the kind of movie you can watch over and over again, it never gets old (even after almost 35 years this film still holds up pretty well). Another awesome action-thriller from under-rated director John McTiernan, whose directing credits include: "Diehard" (1988), "Predator" (1987), "Last Action Hero" (1993), "Diehard with a Vengeance" (1995), & "The Thomas Crown Affair" (the 1999 re-make). 5 out of 5 stars, highly recommend.
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PillS Mccoy
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2024
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The Russian in the movie is mid but the movie is great.
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alfonso espada jr
5.0 out of 5 stars very good movies dvd
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2024
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very good movies dvd
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Jack
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic movie. Alec Baldwin nice performance.
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2024
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Suspense, intrigue & violence all mixed into a good story. It's a movie to watch when you need to feel better.
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Darren Harrison
4.0 out of 5 stars Great movie and documentary on classic sub film
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2004
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Director John McTiernan has had a checkered past as a movie maker. He has made some of the best movies to come out of Hollywood in recent years (`Die Hard' and `The Thomas Crown Affair') and yet he is also the one responsible for some of the worst big budget productions (`The 13th Warrior,' `Nomads' and `The Last Action Hero'). Thankfully for fans of the Tom Clancy novel on which `The Hunt for Red October' is based, this movie falls into the first category. And equally lucky for fans of the novel and film is the fact that Paramount Pictures has seen fit to replace the previous movie-only bare bones DVD release with a special collectors edition.

Sometime in the early 1980s I was looking through novels in the local bookstore searching for that one elusive book that would make a great birthday present for my mother. I came across a work by an author I had never heard of, and a novel that sounded as if it had an interesting `Firefox-like' plot. The author was Tom Clancy and the novel was `The Hunt for Red October.'

Fast forward several years and in 1990 Paramount Pictures released the Sean Connery/Alec Baldwin starring adaptation of the novel. The movie was a triumphant success, even given its longer than usual running time and its lack of real action (most of the actual action occurs in the final moments of the film). What held the movie together, and kept the viewers rapt attention, was the simply incredible acting and presence of Sean Connery as Soviet sub captain Marko Ramius and the building suspense and tension that pervades the well structured plot.

The plot centers on the plan by Ramius to, with the help of some fellow crewmembers, to defect to the United States, taking with him the newest sub in the Russian fleet - the Red October (named after the October revolution. The Red October is capable of running silent with a new propulsion system that makes it almost invisible to sonar. The Russians launch a mission to destroy the submarine and even tell the Americans that Ramius is a rogue in an attempt to elicit their help in sinking the ship.

The one American who doesn't believe the Russian story is CIA analyst Jack Ryan (played in this movie by Alec Baldwin). Having met Ramius previously and studied him he suspects the true intention of the Soviet captain. He must convince his bosses and eventually an American sub captain (played wonderfully by Scott Glenn) to trust him and give Ramius a chance.

Taut and at times nerve wrenching (the blind timed navigating through the underwater trenches), the `Hunt for Red October' is simply one of the best techno-thrillers to come out of Hollywood in the past two decades. Sticking fairly close to the Clancy novel, McTiernan keeps building the pressure and ratcheting up of the stakes until an explosive final confrontation off the Labrador coast.

For the collectors edition Paramount has provided us with not only a commentary by McTiernan but also a nice "making of.." documentary. I have always been disappointed with McTiernan commentaries (`The Thomas Crown Affair' is a case in point) and again here with `The Hunt for Red October' there is a lot of dead air with not much being said. Where this DVD does score top marks is in the documentary. We are provided with some fairly in-depth insight into what went into the making of the picture.

Featuring all the leading actors in the movie and the production team responsible the documentary covers every angle and even reveals how close they came to not signing Connery when the Scottish actor was faxed the entire script sans the opening scroll.

A great movie and this well-made documentary make this DVD a must buy - Recommended.
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Mac Sanders
5.0 out of 5 stars I would buy from this store again
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2024
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The video is as described. It came before the estimated time and was shipped quickly.
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george Estrada
5.0 out of 5 stars product review
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2024
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excellent suspense movie with great cast of actors. enjoy watching movie several times. definitely an all time favorite
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plefebv
5.0 out of 5 stars Article conforme, en bon état et reçu rapidement.
Reviewed in France on April 12, 2024
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Article conforme, en bon état et reçu rapidement. Pas encore lu.
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5.0 out of 5 stars CHILLING ‘RED OCTOBER’ ENLIVENS A CHILLY, WET, FEBRUARY!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2024
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This is a review of the 1990 submarine-set spy thriller, ‘The Hunt for Red October’. We watched it on the 2011 All Region Blu-ray from Paramount Home Entertainment. It plays in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, 5.1 Dolby TrueHD audio, with occasional English subtitles in the early part of the film. The film looks and sounds seriously good. There are some extras.

There are a number of very good, thrilling, edge-of-the-seat movies made about submarine warfare, set both during WW2 and the Cold War. As examples: ‘Das Boot’(1981), the German masterpiece (and subsequent TV series); Dick Powell’s wonderful ‘The Enemy Below’(1957); & Robert Wise’s fine ‘Run Silent, Run Deep’(1958) all cover WW2. The excellent British-American ‘The Bedford Incident’(1965) and superb ‘Crimson Tide’(1995) are more contemporary.

Dramatic events playing out on submarines inevitably start from a strong position because of the setting, in a confined space, with jeopardy resulting from the physical positioning under the waves, as well as enemy action. Sounds are magnified. Human errors, mechanical failure, treachery, can have existential impact. Catastrophe is unqualified. So a good story, a well-written script, set on board a submarine, does signpost a possible winner. If that story is by Tom Clancy, and the source novel is already a best-seller, things are really cooking!

Clancy’s 1984 book was his first. The central character, Jack Ryan, is a CIA analyst, a clever man but not trained for field work ~ though that changes in subsequent novels and films, Events are contemporaneous, taking place in the final months before the election of Mikhail Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Soviet Politburo on 11 March 1985. This was the event that began the inexorable trajectory of the Soviet Union towards its dissolution, in December 1991. Prior to Gorbachev’s election however, there was a period of extreme instability, with two leaders (Andropov and Chernenko) elected and dying in quick succession, and an intensification of the Cold War. The book and film are set against this chilling backdrop, which although it is not mentioned, is woven into the fabric of events playing out. The development of a new, stealth, weapon, a sure-fire killer, is only too believable, and it makes the behaviour of a crew apparently gone rogue, totally unpredictable. Can Ryan unpick this high stakes conundrum? This is what the film considers.

The director of this winning formula is also a winner: John McTiernan of ‘Predator’(1987) and ‘Die Hard’(1988) fame. He takes Clancy’s sizzling premise by the scruff of the neck, and develops a blockbuster! The production team and cast were allowed unprecedented access to US submarines, although the filming was carried out on soundstages. In the days before CGI, everything was created using standard cinematic techniques, and hugely impressive it is.

The cast is large and seriously starry. Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin lead, as the Russian sub Captain, Marko Ramius, and Jack Ryan. Scott Glen as the CO of the US sub, and the late Richard Jordan, as the US National Security Advisor, are especially effective. So too is Courtney Vance, as the US sonar operator. McTiernan draws intense, committed, performances from everyone, and it makes for powerful drama.

It is ironic that the release of the film coincided with events leading to the end of the Soviet Union. For a while, the plot may have seemed ancient history. Now, in 2024, that is sadly, no longer the case. Watching this film is a reminder of how bad things can get, and it is well worth 6 chilling Stars.
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Papamad
5.0 out of 5 stars Gran Pelicula
Reviewed in Spain on April 27, 2013
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Esta película está basada en la novela de Tom Clancy del mismo título. El personaje que interpreta Alec Baldwin (Jack Ryan) ha sido encarnado en otras películas por Harrison Ford (Peligro inminente y Juego de patriotas. Sean Connery interpreta a Marko Ramius con el aplomo y solidez que le caracteriza, un gusto verle (y oírle en inglés).

La imagen de la película tiene una calidad perfecta. Esta en castellano, aunque prefiero el inglés para oírles. El sonido magnifico. Uso un antiguo amplificador Luxman y unos también antiguos Bose, aun no tengo Home Cinema, y no sé si,...

El guión es bueno y te mantiene en tensión, hasta el desenlace, con guiños de humor. Una gran film.

El envío perfecto y a tiempo. Me encantaría que todas mis compras futuras me provoquen la misma satisfacción que esta.
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Paul
5.0 out of 5 stars A good military thriller
Reviewed in Canada on January 9, 2024
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You can learn a bit about the technical details of nuclear submarines here but more so the twisted and fractured social pressures of two distinctly different societies. The USA and Russia.
Well filmed, far out but still just plausible, this is good entertainment. Better than average.
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Kh
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent quality
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2024
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