—
Patriot Games
Film
FilmPG-131994
Clear and Present Danger
Directed by Phillip Noyce
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure… From TMDB
229 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
—
No Data
Sentiment labels for these sources are still being hand-checked; no score yet.
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 31 | 8 | 178 |
| Mastodon * | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| TMDB reviews * | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
What people are saying
A written summary appears once the title has a score.
At a glance
Clear and Present Danger is a 1994 action drama thriller film, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe and Joaquim de Almeida.
- 189 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Mar 23, 2019 to Nov 5, 2026
Assembled from TMDB, Wikidata and Steam fields and our own counts, nothing written by a model. Method
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
229 public posts have mentioned Clear and Present Danger so far, but it needs 10 opinionated reactions from checked sources before it gets a score. Seen it? Post your take.
The Experts
74%
avg of 3 sources
The People
—
audience score
Reactions
60 of 229 · most liked firstVenezuela Strike? SEAL Team 6 et al has been on the ground since September. It comes as no surprise they directed air strikes on a drug transshipment dock. I saw it in the Tom Clancy movie “A Clear and Present Danger “ years ago.
neutral · AI labelView post →Its intriging how many books and movies lose some of their edge after the events of this year ... case in point, Clear and Present Danger ... the fear of a deputy director in the CIA having to explain to Congress why we had carried out unilateral military action against drug cartles...
neutral · AI labelView post →Has he read Tom Clancy’s “Clear and Present Danger”? Or seen the movie? Because this doesn’t work out well for the US!
neutral · AI labelView post →As a Canadian watching from afar, when it comes to dealing with Trump and his fascist buddies, I'll just quote the movie, Clear and Present Danger, "The course of action I would suggest is a course of action I can't suggest"
neutral · AI labelView post →Donald Trump secretly directed the Pentagon to use military force against drug cartels – just like the movie, “Clear and Present Danger.” Ali Velshi adds, “the plan to send American soldiers after the cartels was a bad idea in the movie and it’s a bad idea in the real world.” youtu.be/63ND593iA7w
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a plot point in “Clear and Present Danger.” All of this happened in the book / movie! Written by a big time conservative! As a cautionary tale about a corrupt and lawless Presidency!
neutral · AI labelView post →Fantastic actor. Loved him in Ghostbusters and in Clear and Present Danger. RIP. deadline.com/2025/06/harr...
neutral · AI labelView post →This *was* a plot point in a Tom Clancy novel and the movie based on it. Ironically, it was called Clear and Present Danger.
neutral · AI labelView post →alright when's the last time we had a really solid evil bureaucrat in a film your Cutters from Clear and Present Danger or your Burkes from Aliens
neutral · AI labelView post →We already saw this movie. It was called "Clear and Present Danger" and it didn't end well for anyone involved.
neutral · AI labelView post →Wasn’t “a US President abuses his position to order the extrajudicial assassination of civilians suspected to be members of a drug cartel” literally the plot of the Tom Clancy book/movie “Clear and Present Danger”?
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm no lawyer so I have no idea but I did see the movie A Clear and Present Danger a few times and I think you're correct
neutral · AI labelView post →Amazing. From an Air Force history of the MH-53 Pave Low, the backstory of how the Air Force helped Tom Clancy get Pave Low details right in the book Clear and Present Danger, and jealous Army SOF officers allegedly then connived to have MH-60s replace the Pave Low in the movie
neutral · AI labelView post →I will die on the hill, and take as many of my attackers with me as I can, that Harrison Ford was a terrible, terribly cast Jack Ryan and that Patriot Games a is a terrible adaptation of the book and Clear and Present Danger is actually worse. The Hunt is the only good Clancy movie.
negative · AI labelView post →Clear and Present Danger might be the actual movie he watched.
neutral · AI labelView post →"We are doing Clear And Present Danger, from the novel and film Don't Do Clear And Present Danger."
neutral · AI labelView post →Ben Afflek My dog’s Movie farts 😳 Clear and Present Danger
neutral · AI labelView post →introduce myself with a book, a movie, an album, and a television programme? easy Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy Clear and Present Danger by Philip Noyce Clear and Present Danger by James Horner The Great British Baking Show season 13 episode 4: Mexican Week
neutral · AI labelView post →As a Canadian watching from afar, when it comes to dealing with Trump and his fascist buddies, I'll just quote the movie, Clear and Present Danger, "The course of action I would suggest is a course of action I can't suggest"
neutral · AI labelView post →Sicario 2 is basically Clear and Present Danger (the movie) but dumber (which is impressive because Clear and Present Danger the movie is already pretty stupid, just relative to the book)
negative · AI labelView post →rewatching Clear and Present Danger (1994), it's a real dad movie, middle aged analyst doesn't do gun play but from research and few fisticuff reveals a conspiracy all the way at the top and sticks to his honor youtu.be/Ok2OsgMQQD4
positive · AI labelView post →As a Canadian watching from afar, when it comes to dealing with Trump and his fascist buddies, I'll just quote the movie, Clear and Present Danger, "The course of action I would suggest is a course of action I can't suggest"
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking just one is feels impossible. There's a dad movie for every occasion!! But Master & Commander and A Clear And Present Danger are like neck and neck for me.
positive · AI labelView post →I don’t know how I never noticed these in the movie adaptation of “Clear and Present Danger” before (except that they’re only in the infil, not the exfil)—the 160th SOAR flew two MH-60s to Mexico for the movie (160th SOAR later also supplied real MH-60s for “Black Hawk Down,” of course)
neutral · AI labelView post →He watched Clear and Present Danger and thought it was a how-to. The movie doesn't show it, but in the book the president gets impeached and removed IIRC. Of course that's back when we thought conviction after impeachment was possible.
neutral · AI labelView post →The craziest part is I know all these people have seen Clear and Present Danger. They know even by fake movie standards this was horrifically wrong.
neutral · AI labelView post →Straight up Clear and Present Danger movie ass argument.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 30th birthday to "Star Trek: Generations," a kinda-okay-but-not-really movie that I watched an unreasonable number of times, as it came at the height of my Trek obsession. Special thanks to my dad who saw "Clear and Present Danger" with me just so I could see the "Generations" preview.
neutral · AI labelView post →isn't the relevant movie not sicario but rather A Clear and Present Danger
neutral · AI labelView post →Reds wasn’t very good but so ambitious. Clear and Present Danger didn’t hold up that well. The Invite is amazing. And American Hustle would be most film makers best movie. #LastFourWatched 👠
negative · AI labelView post →As a Canadian watching from afar, when it comes to dealing with Trump and his fascist buddies, I'll just quote the movie, Clear and Present Danger, "The course of action I would suggest is a course of action I can't suggest"
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching ‘Clear and Present Danger’ and it is still a great film, though it’s a bit disconcerting it’s the entire basis for Trump’s Mexico Cartel plans, tbh
positive · AI labelView post →Clear and Present Danger ends with accountability or a soft resignation, depending on if you mean the movie or the book, I'd honestly prefer that reference
neutral · AI labelView post →There was a Tom Clancy movie about a similar situation that was seen as a massive breach of justice and presidential authority- Clear and Present Danger.
neutral · AI labelView post →it's funny because there are so many scenes from PATRIOT GAMES that are just burned into my subconscious, but also on a rewatch it's a legitimately bad movie. just not even in the ballpark of either HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER or CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
positive · AI labelView post →Remember that movie, “Clear and Present Danger” where Darth Vader and Han Solo are good friends.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is nowhere near his best film, but so good when he says “I’m sorry Mr. President…I don’t dance” when the President in Clear and Present Danger called it “the old Potomac two-step” to be violently corrupt, lie about it and defame a deceased Black veteran’s name (James Earl Jones’ character).
positive · AI labelView post →Someone please take “Clear and Present Danger” out of the presidential movie library
neutral · AI labelView post →You should listen to the episode of @jamellebouie.net & John Ganz's podcast, Clear and Present Danger, re: the movie Air Force One. One point they make is that a Clintonian Dem, a neocon Rep, and another kind of Rep could all watch the movie & think that Harrison Ford's Prez character agreed w/them.
neutral · AI labelView post →I will die on the hill that in comparison to The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games was bad, Clear and Present Danger was worse, and Harrison Ford was the most miscast actor in the history of film.
negative · AI labelView post →Just like the book/movie… “Clear and Present Danger” The plan to send American soldiers after the cartels was a bad idea in fiction… And it’s a bad idea in fact…
neutral · AI labelView post →If you are curious about what can happen when operational plans are disclosed, watch the movie “Clear and Present Danger.” Not only is it a damn good movie, it shows how men and women can get killed from OpSec leaks. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/clear_and_...
positive · AI labelView post →Oh, so they want to do that Clear and Present Danger movie but without having to hide it or have the president possibly facing consequences after a congressional hearing
neutral · AI labelView post →This is also a persistent fantasy of Trump's, from his first term. And, of course, it's lifted straight from the Tom Clancy book (and Harrison Ford movie) Clear and Present Danger. Where it proves to be a disastrous policy leading to the President resigning.
neutral · AI labelView post →Add "between my legs" to a movie title Clear and Present Danger Between My Legs😏
neutral · AI labelView post →We were watching a movie- #HATM refers to Historians At The Movies - we were watching Clear and Present Danger. But there were some parallels to the modern day. :)
neutral · AI labelView post →if anyone knows how to check historical movie listings go see when cable in DC last aired Clear and Present Danger please
neutral · AI labelView post →US gov extrajudicially killing South American alleged drug traffickers is literally a key plot point in Clancy’s Clear and Present Danger, only that in the novel/movie the government did not proudly announce it to the world
neutral · AI labelView post →lots of people who misunderstood the point of the movie "Sicario" (and of the book and movie "Clear and Present Danger" for that matter) seem to be primed for it now
neutral · AI labelView post →There are many weeks in which I love the "here's what was in the news that day" part of the CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER pod (@jamellebouie.net @pastpunditry.bsky.social this week) more than the film discussed. And on Oct 24, 1997, the NYT discovered omakase: www.nytimes.com/1997/10/24/u... 1/2
neutral · AI labelView post →I feel like I’m watching the movie Clear and Present Danger played out in real time. Except Jack Ryan will not being swooping in and save us.
neutral · AI labelView post →Clear and Present Danger was a great movie, it should stay a movie. ~Variable
positive · AI labelView post →what the hell is actually in those files?! undeclared illegal war is the ultimate level pull of distraction extrajudicial murders at sea without proof, only lies by Commander Bone-Spurs (FIVE deferments!) hell there was a movie about this? (1994 Jack Ryan: Clear and Present Danger)
neutral · AI labelView post →Is there something buried in some statute from the war on drugs era he’s using like in the movie Clear and Present Danger?
neutral · AI labelView post →30 years later, Clear and Present Danger is still a banger of a movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Phillip Noyce's second Jack Ryan movie CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER is not really my thing, but has its moments.
neutral · AI labelView post →Harrison Ford One of Movie My Farts 🎥 Clear and Present Danger
neutral · AI labelView post →Describe your personal life rn with a movie title "Clear and Present Danger"
neutral · AI labelView post →We were watching a movie- #HATM refers to Historians At The Movies - we were watching Clear and Present Danger. Hope you can join in sometime. :)
neutral · AI labelView post →With any luck he watched Clear and Present Danger* and remembered to keep the receipts (*American President get wrapped up in the drug business, and commits extrajudicial murder, only to be taken down by a rogue CUA agent) youtu.be/dKsDjpKr2Mk?...
neutral · AI labelView post →
Posts are quoted from public profiles with links to the original. Want yours removed? Contact us.
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
