Patriot Games (1992) poster
1992 · action · thriller

Patriot Games

Directed by Phillip Noyce1h 57m1992
ElsewhereIMDb6.8127kRT72%Metacritic64TMDB6.72k
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

Our read · Patriot Games (1992) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded action · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a competent Harrison Ford thriller with IRA stakes and family danger.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 4attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencechild peril

Skip it tonightTerrorism targeting families will spike your anxiety tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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