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The Hunt for Red October [Blu-ray]

Sean Connery (Actor), Alec Baldwin (Actor) Rated:

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Moscow, Washington and a CIA analyst track a renegade Soviet captain and his new submarine. Directed by John McTiernan. From the Tom Clancy novel.

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Actors: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Sam Neill, Vlado Benden, Michael George Benko
Format: AC-3, Blu-ray, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English, French
Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Dubbed: French, Spanish
Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
Number of discs: 1
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Parental Guidance Suggested
Studio: Paramount
DVD Release Date: July 29, 2008
Run Time: 135 minutes
Customer Reviews: 4,083 customer ratings
ASIN: B001AII4SQ
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #918 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #35 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #143 in Action & Adventure Blu-ray Discs

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A. Rose

Probably the best adaptation from any of Clancy's novels

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2017

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This is a 1990 movie based on a 1984 novel by Tom Clancy. It stars Sean Connery as the Soviet captain of an experimental submarine. Launched during the Cold War, the captain and his officers decide to defect to America, but soon find themselves the target of, not only their own fleet, but also the American Navy, who have been told that they intend to launch their nuclear weapons on the United States. Only CIA consultant Jack Ryan, played by Alec Baldwin, believes in their true intentions, and fights to keep the military from killing them. This film has a stellar supporting cast, including Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, and Tim Curry. Probably the best adaptation from any of Clancy's novels, this was the one that introduced the character of Jack Ryan to American movie audiences. The character has since appeared in many action films, played by such notables as Harrison Ford (between his Star Wars films), Ben Affleck, and Chris Pine (known for also playing the latest version of Captain Kirk). This is a thriller that will keep you guessing and on the edge of your seat until the very end. Perhaps one of my very favorites in the drama/action genre.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2018

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One ping only please.

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First class movie that is worth watching!

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2017

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This is an exceptional movie and you should see it. I own the Bluray version but we just watched the film using Amazon Prime to stream to my digital projector. The streaming worked perfectly and the video and audio quality were perfect.

This is an excellent story based on a novel written by Tom Clancy. To top it off the film features a strong cast of actors and it is directed well. It is one of my favorite movies with the character of Jack Ryan. The book was excellent and this film follows the book very closely.

I strongly recommend this film. I have probably watched it 5 times. This is a good film to have in your library of films. It features great acting and a good story line.

This was one of Tom Clancy's best books and the movie version was created in a very realistic and entertaining way.

This is a good film that you should have in your video library.

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Karlie Laumer

If you've never seen this film, just watch it now.

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2018

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I've seen this movie 984 times. I still love every minute of it. It also makes me nostalgic for my dad, because he loved watching it too.

Honestly, no review is needed. Anyone who hasn't seen it, please change that soon. The movie is amazing. Great music, Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin at the top of their game, incredible supporting actors, and a top notch script.

And be still my heart - when you get to see Sir Sean AND Alec Baldwin in dress Navy blues? It's an added perk.

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Sean H.

This might be my all time favorite movie. I've watched it countless times on VHS

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2018

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This might be my all time favorite movie. I've watched it countless times on VHS, then DVD, and now I've upgraded to Blu-ray. While the transfer to Blu-ray is excellent, this movie suffers from the same problem most underwater movies do. It seems that Hollywood can produce a movie about anything that is completely realistic, unless it takes place underwater. Everything just seems to fall apart when it comes to the underwater scenes. Based on the age of this movie (and hence the technology available to produce it), when transferred to Blu-ray this problem is only exacerbated. I think the saving grace for this movie in the theaters originally was the limited ability to put out a level of brightness modern flat-panel TVs have no problem with today. But if you watch it in a completely dark room on a big TV it's still a fantastic movie, you just might have to focus on the plot a little more than the visuals.

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Since the Russians are “topical,” yet again…

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2020

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… I thought I step outside my normal genres of movies and watch a Cold War classic “thriller,” based on the Tom Clancy eponymous novel, which was published in 1984. The novel has been fairly wide-read, with 1500 plus reviews posted at Amazon. The movie version, directed by John Tiernan, was released in 1990. And the movie has more than 3000 reviews. In evaluating an item I normally try to compare it against other items within its category. This can sometimes lead to some screwy results, as it were, when one is evaluating a “torrid romance novel.” In both that case, and in the case of “Red October,” how much “disbelief” is it appropriate to suspend? In addition, I could not help but compare this movie with one produced almost three decades earlier, with some common themes: “Dr. Strangelove.”

“Red October” is the latest super-secret Soviet submarine, with a new propulsion system that permits it to run very quietly, almost undetectable by normal sonar. It is named for the month in which the Russian Revolution of 1917 occurred, which actually happened in November, if one is keeping track on the Gregorian calendar (it occurred in October, on the Julian calendar, which was operative in the Russian Orthodox Catholic world at the time.) “Red October” is under the command of Captain Marko Ramius, who is not Russian, but Lithuanian. He is at the very top of his game in the Russian navy, having trained many of the other sub commanders. It is hard to imagine anyone playing that part better than Sean Connery. James Earl Jones is Admiral Greer in the American navy. Alex Baldwin plays the part of Jack Ryan, a famous character in his own right, who continues to live on today. Ryan is a book-writing CIA operative, also at the top of his game.

Ramius has decided to defect to the Americans, taking the sub with him. Early on, it is demonstrated that he knows the “enemy” (the Americans) well. Although his name is not mentioned in the movie, in the book that Ramius carries in his cabin, the famous quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer (“that fella up there in Los Alamos,” as he was once described to me), “Now I am Death, the Destroyer of Worlds,” taken from the Bhagavad-Gita, is underlined. It is the boat’s political officer, Ivan PUTIN (I can’t make that up!) who questions Ramius about this. Ramius blames his wife for underlining it! Later on, Ramius draws on the precedence of Cortez burning his ships once he got to Mexico. Adding to the glossy patina of intellectualism of some of the characters, the very clever American sonar technician enjoys his opera!

The two-hours plus flew by. It is a “thriller,” after all, with enough twists and turns in the plot to keep it very interesting. Ramius had written a letter telling the Soviet naval leadership that he was defecting, and thus the entire Russian navy is after him. The Americans can’t be sure he is defecting, or going to blow up NYC and DC. Every second counts, of course. Several bushel baskets full of “disbelief” must be suspended, for example when the American sub commander, who has Ramius in his sights, must surface to pick up Ryan, who is being helicoptered to the sub, in a chopper with not quite enough fuel, and he drops in the ocean to keep his rendezvous. Ugh. And that is just one example.

In “Dr. Strangelove,” it is an obsessed rogue American general who launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. There is a lot of slapstick gallows-type humor as the Russians and Americans work together to thwart the attack. In “Red October,” the “rogue” Russian commander is not depicted as being crazy and the gallows-type humor is missing, but there are similar scenes of the Russian and American leadership working together, sometimes at cross-purposes. I think “Strangelove,” even with its deliberately exaggerated humor (“a fella could have a good time in Vegas with all that”), is a much better depiction of the real world than “Red October,” with its heroic CIA operatives jumping off the helicopter cable into the icy North Atlantic.

Overall, the time did “fly by,” and I am most surprised that no other reviewer has called out this fantasy as being even more unlikely than “Major King Kong” (Slim Pickens) riding that nuclear bomb down to its target (Note: James Earl Jones also played in “Strangelove” as Lt. Lothar Zogg). For “Red October,” a “screwy” 3-stars.

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CONNERY BETTER THAN BOND?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2017

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I found this 130 min REGION B/2 DVD highly entertaining and very engrossing and am sure that it will keep most viewers on the edge of their seats. It's a very intense film but nothing serious.
Based on Tom Clancy's bestseller, directed by John McTiernan and starring Sean Connery and Alex Baldwin. The Hunt for Red October seethes with high-tech excitement and sweats with 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 (Sean Connery) The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst (Alex Baldwin) has a different idea, he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it as the entire Russian naval and air commanders are trying to find him too.

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J. Alm

Submarine adventure starring Jack Ryan

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2017

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A fantastic film and a brilliant copy. Like most older films the faces are not as clear as the rest but this is one of the most icon films of it's time.

Jack Ryan is brought into a meeting about a new sub just launched by Russia. They set out to find out what the submarine's purpose is. We find out a lot about Jack. It has a lot of action in the cat and mouse chases. Not only the Americans but the Russians are looking for the sub. There is a great twist at the end.

The film has a lot of character, some amazing acting and amazing special effects for it's time.

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Oliver Browne

Best submarine movie ever?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2016

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Absolute classic and one of my very favorite movies. This is Sean Connery at his best and there are some other great actors in there too. The storyline is superb and somewhat believable as a 'true story' (it is not, but could be easily if the technology was there at the time!). The soundtrack is fantastic too and I have lost count of how many times I have watched this movie and not got bored of it.

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Mike Gee

POOR QUALITY

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 12, 2018

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This is not the same as the original. The picture quality is poor; it is very grainy, rather like a VHS recording. Also there are scenes where the included sub-titles during Russian dialogue have been omitted.
The overall effect was to spoil a great film. I shall have to look elsewhere for a better copy.

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A very good realistic story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2019

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If you enjoy a good story this is for you. A brand new Russian submarine out on trials who's officers want to defect without being found out. This is how they went about it. A very good story full of tension from start to finish.

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EMac

Many thanks for your excellent and efficient service

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 13, 2018

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I couldn't pass up the opportunity to get this. The book's one of my favourites of the John Clancy's series involving Jack Ryan. The film still manages to grip my attention from start to finish after all these years and despite the current trend of droids, robots and monsters from outer space or heroes from magazines. Many thanks for your excellent and efficient service.

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James Murchison

excellent entertainment

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2019

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Many people put this on their top ten list of action movies, and I can see why. Superbly scripted, acted and produced. A really impressive cold-war action movie which enthrals from start to finish.

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colin51

Great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2016

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Great film, one of my all time favourites, you can watch this many times over and still enjoy, unlike many other films.

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L. Clarkson

Oh my god the glasses!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2013

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This is a great story. I got the blue ray version of this film because I loved it the first time I saw it.
It's very stereo typical though. The usual forumula but for all that very entertaining.

What I found so distracting and didn't remember at all from the last time I saw this were the glasses worn by the Americans!
What a strange device to differentiate between the very similar interiors of two submarines! I must admit it made me laugh this time.
Oh how times have changed. Still its got Sean Connery in it being his usual cool self.. more stereo types but hey ho!

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Mr. C. Findlay

US blu ray plays on my UK blu ray player

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2018

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The Jack Ryan series has been consistently good, and this is no exception. Connery is great, of course, and Alec Baldwin shouldn't have thrown away the opportunity to continue in the role, though Harrison Ford was excellent when he took over. I was concerned that the US blu ray might not play on my blu ray player, but it works fine.

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Phil Cleary

Terrible !

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2018

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I bought this film from the seller WeBuyBooks and the entire film is in Russian ! Despite selecting the English options, still in Russian How this was sold like this baffles me. Would i recommed, Nyet !

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prudence davison

A terrific find and very cheap

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 21, 2017

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How I missed this movie in the first place, I cannot recall. A terrific find and very cheap. A rather good and interesting story, kept you glued to the television. Thanks for careful packaging and arrived in wonderful condition.

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Richard Atkinson

The Hunt

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2019

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It was very quick delivery, actually a day ahead of the date outlined. However, the disk wouldn't play on my PC or my Xbox, unfortunately because it was a good film.

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BedfordshireBoy

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2017

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Great film. Nice price.

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Mr R Thersby

Enjoyable hokum

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 11, 2016

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Enjoyable film although there were several examples of the US Navy being able to move it's ships to new distant locations at near light speed - very impressive.

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