The Hunt for Red October (Blu-ray) PG

Invisible. Silent. Stolen.
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  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 29, 2008
  • Originally Released: 1990
  • Label: Paramount

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Academy Awards 1990 - Best Sound Effects Editing: Not Applicable

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User Ratings: 172,525
Though Hunt shows fitful signs of life, it lacks the human drama of Das Boot, the technical dazzle of The Abyss and the old-fashioned brio of Run Silent, Run Deep. Full Review
Rolling Stone
Feb 11, 2015
Rating: 3/4 -- Coupled with Connery's magnetic performance, that's enough to make The Hunt for Red October as watchable today as it was during its 1990 release. Full Review
ReelViews
Oct 8, 2018
...An elegy for those dear, dark, terrible days of the cold war....[Connery] makes it look good...
New York Times
Mar 2, 1990
Rating: 4/5 -- With a chilly majesty to its scale despite its confined locations, this is a supremely confident film with the courage of its convictions as the story slowly and steadily unfolds. 30 years on it still packs a powerful punch, the tension ratcheting. Full Review
Caution Spoilers
Nov 10, 2018
Rating: 3/4 -- An exciting techno-suspense thriller with a hollow center. Full Review
Seattle Times
Feb 11, 2015
Like the nuclear submarine it's named after, The Hunt for Red October is big, shiny, and expensive. But it's also hard, cold, and cumbersome, just when it's trying hardest to be likable and even friendly. Full Review
Christian Science Monitor
Feb 11, 2015
It's to McTiernan's credit that so much of this is made intense. Every silence on board the Russian sub, whether they're squeaking through a narrow underwater canyon or sending out a single sonar ping, seems occasion to hold your breath. Full Review
Esquire Magazine
Oct 17, 2018

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In the tradition of DIE HARD and PREDATOR, director John McTiernan presents audiences with yet another techno thriller: THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER. Sean Connery plays Captain Marko Ramius, a dissatisfied Russian commander who navigates his submarine towards America in an attempt to defect. Soviet intelligence claims that Ramius is a warmonger and that he plans to launch nuclear missiles at the United States. Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin), an iconoclastic CIA agent, believes otherwise: American spies have determined that the submarine is powered by a stealth engine. In order to save the "caterpillar drive" and avoid a nuclear incident, Agent Ryan must board the Red October and assist Captain Ramius in its navigation to U.S. waters. Both murky and captivating, the underwater visual and sound effects are reminiscent of DAS BOOT. Once again director McTiernan produces a winning film with a jagged plot, a well acted script, and plenty of explosions.

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