“Patriot Games” was arguably more about spycraft than action, an imbalance that this sequel remedies. (Though Ford can make even waiting for a printout at his office into a suspenseful sequence.)
Ford reprises his role as CIA “Boy Scout” Ryan to take on well-armed drug cartels abroad and weaselly bureaucrats at home with equal aplomb. Bonus points for offering a critique of the kind of off-the-books foreign policy that led to such debacles as Iran-Contra.
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