The Hunt for Red October (Special Collector's Edition)
by John McTiernan
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Actor: Alec Baldwin, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, Scott Glenn, Sean ConneryDirector: John McTiernan
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Jan de Bont
Producer: Jerry Sherlock
Producer: Larry DeWaay
Producer: Mace Neufeld
Writer: Donald Stewart
Writer: Larry Ferguson
Writer: Tom Clancy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 134 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of The Hunt for Red October (Special Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: Excellent cast, gripping adventure
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't have a lot to add to what others have said. I loved this film, and I really enjoyed the "Beneath the Surface" featurette. Just an amazing cast, Sean Connery and Scott Glenn are perfect.DVD Review: Hunt for Red October
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the classic movies in my opinion. The star cast and superior story line (real or not?? hum!) makes this a must have movie for your blue ray lineupDVD Review: The Hunt For Red October [Blu-ray]
Summary: 4 Stars
BLU-RAY BUYER BEWARE!! The studios are playing us for dupes. In wanting us to buy their movies AGAIN (VHS, LaserDisc, DVD, now Blu-ray), with the expansive information a blu-ray will hold, they are cheating us!! Case in point..THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (and others). The previous DVD release contained BOTH a Dolby Digital AND the usually preferred DTS track. On the Blu-ray we only get the Dolby. Shame on them!!
It amazes me. You would think they would load these releases with much, much more than the standard DVD release to help get people to switch over to Blu-ray but, for the most part, they're not. I guess they figure they have enough control over people to get away with it. Do they? YOU answer the question.
DVD Review: Great movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent movie. I was ecstatic to see that this movie was released to Blu-ray. I can clearly see that they simply didn't simply upscale a standard definition master, but that the film was rescanned and that special features have been added!
My only gripe would be: I would like to see this film get treated like the classic it is. It would be nice to see it get run through a dust buster, or color stabilizer. I don't have a problem with seeing grain, as that in itself has a flawed beauty to it, and does add to the aesthetics of the film.
Overall, it's great! Get it! Now!
DVD Review: A CLASSIC of the Action and Cold War genre!
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Hunt for Red October" is not only a CLASSIC of the Action genre, but the Cold War film genre as well. I saw this movie THREE times in the theater and read the Tom Clancy novel too. It's such a GOOD and EXCITING movie it's ridiculous!
The plot couldn't be any better. the idea of a Soviet nuclear submarine commander wanting to defect to the United States, how could you go wrong! Sean Connery gives his usual GREAT leading man performance (fresh off his Oscar win in 1988). Sam Neill is GREAT as well as Borodin, the second in command.
Scott Glenn and Alec Baldwin are SUPERB as well. Some of us wonder what the Jack Ryan series would have been like had Baldwin not left the role. No disrespect meant toward Harrison Ford. If you want to see one of the CLASSICS of the Action and Cold War genre SEE THIS MOVIE!
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Description of The Hunt for Red October (Special Collector's Edition)
Based on Tom Clancy's bestseller, directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard) and starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER sweats with high-tech anxiety and the tension of men who hold Doomsday in their hands. A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius (Connery). The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst (Baldwin) has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find him, too. The hunt is on!Before Harrison Ford assumed the mantle of playing Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan hero in Patriot Games, Alec Baldwin took a swing at the character in this John McTiernan film and hit one to the fence. If less instantly sympathetic than Ford, Baldwin is in some respects more interesting and nuanced as Ryan, and drawing comparisons between both actors' performances can make for some interesting postmovie discussion. That aside, The Hunt for Red October stands alone as a uniquely exciting adventure with a fantastic costar: Sean Connery as a Russian nuclear submarine captain attempting to defect to the West on his ship. Ryan must figure out his true motives for approaching the U.S. McTiernan (Predator, Die Hard) made an exceptionally handsome movie here with action sequences that really do take one's breath away. --Tom Keogh
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