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Without any such political dimension, Patriot Games is little more than a variation on Cape Fear or Fatal Attraction (the latter also featured Archer as the wife/mother whose family is threatened by an irrational outsider set upon destroying it). (The brothers belong to a radical faction of the Irish Republican Army, if that's possible.) From there, Patriot Games pits the Ryan nuclear family against the terrorist seeking to avenge the death of little brother at any cost, without much attention paid to the politics which put the plot in motion.
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Ryan's instinctive act of courage results in the death of a young Irishman recruited to participate in the kidnapping by an older brother, a man whose intense hatred for the British rule in Northern Ireland motivates him to kill mercilessly. In this second big-screen adaptation of a Tom Clancy best seller (The Hunt for Red October, the 1990 surprise box-office smash, was the first), Jack Ryan - now a former CIA intelligence analyst - unwittingly foils a kidnapping attempt upon a member of the Royal Family while visiting London with his wife and daughter.
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For a film in which cold-blooded murder is frequently committed in the name of country, the politics in Patriot Games are relatively bloodless.