26 — Wednesday, June 17, 1992 - North Shore News

Photo Merick Morton

HARRISON FORD and Anne Archer star in Philip Noyce's Patriot Games.

Pedestrian Patriot

Patriot Games * % (Paramount) Rated 14 years (at the Esplanade,
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Wilowbrook and Guildford cinemas)

OMETIMES YOU need a vacation from your vaca-
tion. What with all the shopping, sightseeing and
foiling terrorist attacks; you can hardly squeeze in a

mediocre thrillers with indestruc-
tible villains and colorless heroes.

We're supposed to care about
the beseiged family, but it’s hard
to muster much sympathy for
these faceless dullards.

Anne Archer as the saintly
wife/mother/eye-surgeon Cathy
Ryan turns in a sleepy perfor-

stesta. .

There’s a happy Jack Ryan (Har-
rison Ford) and his family shooting
holiday snaps, when terrorists in
ski-masks start shooting back —
with heavy artillery.

Well, no splinter IRA faction
with machine gun politics is going
to spoil his-frolic. The ex-ClA agent
saves the day at the expense of the
little brother of trigger-man Sean
Miller (Sean Bean) who swears
revenge on the Ryans.

The yankees go home, but real-
ize that it’s a small world after all.
Pretty scon there are the usual car
chases, stormy nights and power
outages. But the terrorists make a

Tim Bell
FILM REVIEW

{?°s true. Some of the most challenging
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Scarcity of land. transportation and housing
crises — all issues that can’t be soived by
individual municipalities ontheir own.

The Greater Vancouver Regional
District is a partnership of 18 municipalities
and 3 electoral areas designed to address
regional concerns in a collective manner.
As environmental and {and use issues
become more and more comelex, the
effectiveness of our regional government
system becomes more and more important.

discovery too. There’s nothing
worse than a ticked-off tourist.
Unless, of course, you count

mance matched by the lacklustre
Harrison Ford.

The only interesting aspect of
the movie is the secret agent
hardware.

Via spy satellite, Jack watches a
chilling CIA sweep through a
guervilla camp on the other side of

the world.

The tiny infrared figures are seen
being picked off in total silence on
a monitor, and it’s all over in a
minute. The scene eerily brings to
mind CNN’‘s coverage of the Des-
ert Storm night raids. The rest of
the movie is more pedestrian.

Director Philip Noyce (wha

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