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“To be honest, even though ‘The Hunt for Red October’ is pretty much a classic, I always had some rather mixed feelings about the damned thing. Eventually, for some reasons, Alec Baldwin decided to not come back for this sequel and he was therefore replaced by Harrison Ford. Apparently, the fact that Jack Ryan was really the main character this time around convinced Ford to take over the role which he actually turned down for ‘The Hunt for Red October’. Anyway, sure, the story was still rather far-fetched but the whole thing was really well made. On top of that, Harrison Ford was just so damned charismatic back in those days and you don’t find many actors who can be at the same pretty bad-ass and still quite relatable like him. Recently, they tried to reboot the whole thing with ” read more
"Vice Admiral James Greer, CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence (DDI)"