Avis sur le produitClear and Present Danger (VHS, 1995)

Clear and Present Danger (VHS, 1995)

When a large motor yacht is boarded by the Coast Guard in the Gulf of Mexico, an entire family is found slaughtered by professional killers. The murdered man and his family were close, personal friends of the President of the United States, and he wants something done about it now!

The head of the CIA (James Earl Jones) is suddenly struck by terminal cancer and must be hospitalized immediately for treatment. Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) is promoted to acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence, and takes on this case. After a short investigation, it becomes evident that the President's friend was working with a major Colombian drug lord to launder hundreds of millions in drug money, and was targeted and murdered, along with his entire family, for having skimmed about $650M from the cartel. Unknown to Ryan, the President already had James Cutter, his National Security Adviser, get the CIA to take down the people responsible, calling the cartels "A Clear and Present Danger" to the United States of America.

James Cutter directs Bob Ritter, CIA Deputy Director (Operations), who secures a document giving him permission to act as he sees fit to take down the cartel. Ritter assembles a black-ops team with the help of John Clark (Willem Dafoe), a secret field operative. The team inserts itself in Colombia, with Clark running logistics from Bogota, and Captain Ricardo Ramirez (Benjamin Bratt) leading the ground force in a search-and-destroy mission against various cartel gangs, their equipment, and hidden drug lab facilities.

Ernesto Escobedo (Miguel Sandoval) is the drug lord responsible for the killings. When the President authorizes the seizure of the property and money in various banks from his friend's activities in the illegal drug operations, Escobedo is furious at having lost over $600 million as a result. Escobedo has his chief of intelligence, Felix Cortez, ex-Cuban colonel of military intelligence, take care of the problem. Cortez has flattered and made an ally of a woman working inside the government, Moira Wolfson, secretary to FBI Director Jacobs. Thinking he is in love with her, she clumsily tells him that her boss will be out of town, and wonders if he can go away with her for a few days. The announcement by the president about seizure of funds along with this information, Cortez sets up an ambush that kills Jacobs, and several others shortly after their arrival in Colombia. He kills Moira too.

With this whole illegal war intensifying, an F-16 bomb drop on a cartel meeting kills dozens of cartel members along with their wives and children. Its all over the TV and everyone is scurrying to cover their asses. Ryan has no knowledge of any of this secret operation being run by Cutter and Ritter.

The insertion team is double-crossed by Cutter and many are killed. Cutter tells Clark that Ryan betrayed him and his crew, but to Cutter's dismay, the conversation was recorded by the CIA. Now Ryan travels to Colombia to find Clark and get the survivors back. It is difficult, but he convinces Clark that he is on the level. Together they retrieve their survivors and return.

Ryan now goes before the President, Cutter, and Ritter. They all try to pressure him to cover his own ass and keep quiet - for the good of the country, but he has proof on them. He is pissed, and is not going to be shut up. He blows the whistle on all of them to the Congress. This was an exceptional film and I'm sure that you will thoroughly enjoy it.Lire l'avis complet...