QTN, I think Alec Baldwin is a better Jack Ryan than Harrison Ford. Connery plays his role well too. It's quite close to the book (which is brilliant, and also Clancy's first). The one novel I always wanted to see made as a film was Clancy's Cardinal of the Kremlin, which is his best IMO, though Executive Orders has to be up there too.

Mission:Impossible 2 is a typical Woo film: overloaded with clichéd one-liners, beautiful stunts, slow-motion sequences that lose effect due to the number of times they're used, and a predictably plot; nonetheless, I always enjoy it when watching it. Not a patch on the first though.

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