The Hunt for Red October

“The Industrial Light & Magic special visual effects unit does yeoman work in staging the action with cliffhanger intensity.”

Staff (Not Credited), Variety · 90

“This Tom Clancy thriller gets the proper screen treatment here with this first-rate cast and direction by one of the genre’s best: Die Hard director John McTiernan.”

Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle · 89

“A skillful, efficient film that involves us in the clever and deceptive game being played by Ramius and in the best efforts of those on both sides to figure out what he plans to do with his submarine - and how he plans to do it.”

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times · 88

“Hunt is coldly clinical rather than emotionally resonant; so is the measured ensemble work of a super cast. [2 Mar 1990, Life, p.1D]”

Mike Clark, USA Today · 88

“McTiernan does not fall too much in love with any scene, character or gadget. He has judged his material (and our attention spans) very well. His alternation of menace and human interest, technological wizardry and action sequences is subtly calibrated, ultimately hypnotic in its effect. [5 Mar 1990, p.70]”

Richard Schickel, Time · 80