Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Bullwork Movie Club. Make sure to hit like and subscribe. I want to get this out of the way first because sometimes I forget at the end. We are here today to talk about a movie that is weirdly relevant to our moment, but also just amazingly fun to watch, clear and present danger. The Philip Noy adaptation of the Tom Clancy, a 1989 novel of the same name,

stars Harrison Ford in his second and final appearance as Jack Ryan,

final appearance of James Earl Jones in the series.

The single greatest action setpiece of the 1990s.

I'll make that case.

I'll make that case.

Amongst other things. I know exactly which one you're going to talk about. Everybody knows, Bush. There's him hanging from the, is it him hanging from the chopper? No. No, the SUV convoy. Oh, where they, they rocket them? Yeah. It's, it's great. That's a great.

That's a great sequence there.

Oh, my goodness.

The setup of the movie is pretty straightforward.

Drug dealers kill one of the president's friends, and the president wants revenge.

But he can't just say, I want revenge.

So there's all sorts of weird, interne internecing sub rosa conflicts in the bureaucracy

so they can take the revenge. It was a different time. Today, the president could just say,

I want revenge. Different time. The president would just go on Fox News today and say, I want the military

to kill all these drug dealers. And it would happen, probably. No rules. It would be fine. But then in this, so in

this movie, there's a lot of all this. This is a classic, like, TNT classic sort of movie where I,

you, you can turn on any 15 minutes of this movie. And indeed, I did not see this movie all the way

through until maybe like five or 10 years ago. Like, I don't think I ever actually sat down and watched the movie from start to finish until

fairly recently.

But I had seen all of it.

I'd seen all of it because it played all the time.

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