The Hunt for Red October

If any film in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series stands out as the best (or even a really great flick), it's The Hunt for Red October. It was Clancy's first book leading the unlikely hero and the only film to star Alec Baldwin as Ryan. Baldwin does a great job here -- portraying Ryan not as a gung ho commando, as Harrison Ford would interpret the role, or as a know-it-all brat, as Ben Affleck would disgracefully turn in down the line.


Baldwin is perfect, only his sparring partner, Sean Connery, is even better. As a Russian hero captain defecting to the U.S. -- and