Patriot Games (1992)
Directed by Phillip Noyce
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
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Still, for true genre fans competence is nothing to sneeze at, and Aussie director Phillip Noyce ("Patriot Games," "Clear and Present Danger") combines the creepy atmospherics and the puzzling forensic details -- old iron bolts, piles of crushed oyster shell, bits of 19th century paper -- with almost mathematical precision.
But Washington makes us buy it and director Phillip Noyce ("Patriot Games," "Clear and Present Danger") does manage to keep "The Bone Collector" respectable throughout most of its running time, maintaining tension without going too far overboard on the gory visual details of what this killer does to his prey as he taunts Rhymes with evidentiary enigmas that he races against time to solve before each victim's demise.
Having previously helmed the successful suspense thriller, "Dead Calm"(as well as the Tom Clancy flicks "Clear and Present Danger" and "Patriot Games"), Noyce obviously knows a thing or two about the genre and shouldn't have to resort to such cheap and amateurish tactics.
Offering no originality (unlike 1995's "Copycat"), no realism (unlike 1990's "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer"), no intelligence (unlike 1991's "The Silence of the Lambs"), no surprises (unlike "Se7en"), and not one character we get to know well enough to care about (unlike all of the above), the film is a lifeless product that is tiresomely directed by Noyce (who helmed such strong films as 1992's "Patriot Games" and 1994's "Clear and Present Danger").
Since then, he's cranked out mediocre thrillers like Patriot Games (1992), Sliver (1993), and The Saint (1997).
Philip Noyce (“Salt”, “Patriot Games”) reminds us of what hiring an accomplished director brings to one of these cookie-cutter movies, creating vivid flashbacks of memory — sledding from when there was snow, sailing from when they knew the ocean, the horrors of combat when the world was at war.
The latest is The Giver , which boasts a decorated cast led by Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep, and a capable director in Patriot Games 's Phillip Noyce.
Director Phillip Noyce's ("Patriot Games," "Clear and Present Danger") surprisingly limp big-screen adaptation is faithful to Lowry's 1993 young adult book, yet that something that made her tome so captivating got lost in translation on its way to the big screen.
A veteran of Harrison Ford’s Jack Ryan run – he helmed both Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger -- Noyce makes two wise decisions (which belong, in part, to Lowry’s text).
And with only partial success, Noyce, who’s long been one of the best action directors around (“Patriot Games,” “Clear and Present Danger,” “Salt”), tries to turn Lowry’s elegant, open-ended climax into a large-scale setpiece involving speeding motorbikes, drone aircraft and storm-trooper thugs rounding up dissidents into a Guantanamo-like prison.
Just when we thought that Hollywood had emerged from the stock Cold War villain era, Australian director Phillip Noyce (Rabbit Proof Fence, Patriot Games, Dead Calm) has cleverly resurrected the classic US enemy in an espionage thriller reminiscent, in story and style, of Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur.
Director Phillip Noyce, who made a mainstream name for himself with the Tom Clancy thrillers Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger , took some time off in 2002 to flex his artistic muscles, releasing two very good, very literate films in Rabbit Proof Fence and The Quiet American .
A first class director, Phillip Noyce ("Patriot Games," "The Quiet American"), and a first class female action star, Angelina Jolie (taking the role originally intended for Tom Cruise), team up with a second, sometimes third-tier writer, Kurt Wimmer ("The Recruit," "Law Abiding Citizen"), and deliver a film that works more often than not.
Salt the propulsive new thriller from Phillip Noyce ( Clear and Present Danger Patriot Games ) has been dubbed “Bourne with boobs ” but that label isn’t entirely accurate.
Luckily for us Phillip Noyce never forgot, and he's back in fine form with Salt, a movie more like his early 90s spy landmarks A Clear and Present Danger and Patriot Games than anything that's come since.
Since the film treads (clumsily) in Tom Clancy territory, it seems only appropriate that Phillip Noyce ("Patriot Games", "Clear and Present Danger") should direct.
That cast includes Good Will Hunting's Skellan Skarsgård as a fussy East German communications expert, Patriot Games' Sean Bean as a wild-card British weapons man, The Professional's Jean Reno as a reserved French soldier-for-hire, Jonathan Pryce as McElhone's invisible boss and two Americans -- one played (with typical Method smoulder) by the eminence gris of cool himself, Robert De Niro.
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The film's director, Phillip Noyce, is best known for making big-budget thrillers, his biggest hits being "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger."
The man who had made such iconic Australian films as Backroads (1977), Newsfront and Heatwave (1982), would eventually work with 'stars' like Harrison Ford, Denzel Washington, Sharon Stone and Val Kilmer to make a range of action-thriller genre flicks (Patriot Games [1992], Sliver [1993], The Saint [1997], The Bone Collector [1999] to name a few).
Director Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games) returns to his native continent with this based-in-fact film that has already caused considerable controversy Down Under.
Noyce, known more for the action thrillers "Dead Calm," "Patriot Games" and "A Clear and Present Danger" than small, dramatic gems, chose to make this film, which is adapted from the novel by Doris Pilkington and based on a true story, over his usual blockbuster fare.
Director Phillip Noyce, who usually makes adventures -- among them "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger" -- is at his best in the action scenes, as when the police get close to catching the girls.
Aussie director Phillip Noyce ("The Quiet American"/"Patriot Games"/"Clear and Present Danger"/"The Bone Collector") directs a heartbreaking true story with the tagline "What if the government kidnapped your daughter?"