Clear and Present Danger (1994)
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 out what happened and who's responsible.
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Dom shows up, the heist goes wrong (the cars were seized by the DEA and several agents end up killed), putting them in the doghouse of corrupt Rio businessman Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida, portraying the same evil Hispanic he played in Clear and Present Danger and Desperado ), who wanted one of the seized cars because it contained a microchip that just happened to contain the location of all his ill-gotten money.
Edward Zwick channels Phillip Noyce’s Clear and Present Danger in crafting scenes of anxiety-ridden peril.
With its heavyweight cast and deeper themes, plus a talented director in Noyce (“Clear and Present Danger”), “The Giver” had a real chance to break beyond its target demographic and really resonate with a wider audience.
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.
At least “The Giver” has some technical merit thanks to director Phillip Noyce (“Clear and Present Danger”), who creates a believably clean and sterile world for his actors to inhabit.
The movie is directed by Australian veteran Phillip Noyce ("Clear and Present Danger") with a sharp consistency of vision that includes several radical aesthetic choices for a picture of this scale.
A la Ender's Game, Hollywood has aged up the novel's hero from twelve to sixteen, as well as sexing up the story with more action in the climax (courtesy of Salt and Clear and Present Danger director Phillip Noyce), and beefing up a supporting role to justify the (unnecessary) casting of a paycheck-cashing Meryl Streep.
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).
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.
It's well-stocked with cruel torture and psychopathic behavior, but also contains good work by its two leads and director Phillip Noyce (Clear And Present Danger).
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.
Director Phillip Noyce (Clear and Present Danger), who believes performances come first in moviemaking, says When youre making that your number one aim, thats the cake, and the cinematic flourishes become the icing on the cake.…
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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."
Noyce, whose work to date has more often focused on action/adventure (The Saint, Clear and Present Danger) has made a film of enormous emotional impact and subtlety, something I would not have expected.
But Noyce, who’s become so accustomed to operating on the dumb-and-dumber Hollywood mindset of The Saint and Clear and Present Danger, directs Rabbit-Proof Fence with the precision of an amateur heart surgeon working with a butter knife.
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?"
Australian director Phillip Noyce, who may be best known to North American movie-goers for his big-budget thrillers, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, presents a powerful tale of courage and the indomitable quality of the human spirit.
The film, which was written for a man, baby, was scripted by Kurt Wimmer (“Law Abiding Citizen,” “Ultraviolet”) and directed by Phillip Noyce, whose previous credits run the gamut from the sublime (“Clear and Present Danger,” “Rabbit-Proof Fence”) to the not-so (“The Bone Collector,” “The Saint”).
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 .
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.
Since the film treads (clumsily) in Tom Clancy territory, it seems only appropriate that Phillip Noyce ("Patriot Games", "Clear and Present Danger") should direct.
There's even a few winks to the Jack Ryan series, of which director Phillip Noyce was a part, having directed Clear and Present Danger.
…screenwriter Kurt Wimmer (he did the thrillers Equilibrium and Law Abiding Citizen) gets the talky parts over early and creates a series of set pieces to be efficiently executed by Australian director Phillip Noyce, whose resume has alternated action stuff like Clear and Present Danger with more thoughtful political dramas: Rabbit Proof Fence, The Ugly American.
Thora Birch (Harrison Ford's little girl in "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger") plays his insecure and disaffected teenage daughter, who can't bear her father's rampant lusting after her friends and retreats into a strange romance with an abused and off-kilter neighbor boy (Wes Bentley, "Beloved" ) that videotapes her through her bedroom window, when he isn't being beaten by his volatile, retired Marine pop (Chris Cooper, "October Sky" ).