Sean Connery

Outland

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  • Title: Outland
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Set in a mining station on the moon of Jupiter, 1981’s Outland stars Sean Connery as the recently-assigned Marshal William T. O’Niel. With his wife (Kika Markham) and son (Nicholas Barnes) unable to deal with the conditions of his job any longer, and leaving for Earth, O’Neil finds himself increasingly isolated especially after he begins looking into a series of suspicious deaths and uncovers a company-approved amphetamine smuggling operation increasing the productivity of the miners but also making a number of the workers insane.

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The Hunt for Red October

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  • Title: The Hunt for Red October
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Easily the best adaptation of any Tom Clancy novel, 1990’s The Hunt for Red October starred Sean Connery as defecting Russian sumbarine captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as CIA analyst Jack Ryan who sniffs out the truth and finds himself thrown into the field to bring Ramius in before the United States or the Russians (claiming Ramius plans to fire his missiles on U.S.) can sink the stealth prototype submarine the Red October.

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The Rock

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  • Title: The Rock
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Flashback Friday takes us back to director Michael Bay‘s best film. Sure you could make a case for Armageddon, and some (not me) would argue for Bad Boys II. However, the most successful movie of the popcorn director’s career is unquestionably the 1996 film that united Sean Connery as an aging British Secret Agent unjustly imprisoned for decades after stealing the United States’ most precious secrets and Nicolas Cage as an FBI chemist who find themselves responsible for saving the lives of 81 hostages from mercenaries who have taken control of Alcatraz.

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Jack Ryan Ultimate Movie Collection

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  • Title: The Hunt for Red October / Patriot Games / Clear and Present Danger / The Sum of All Fears / Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
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Jack Ryan 5-Film Collection

All five feature-length Jack Ryan movies are collected featuring the heroic actions of Tom Clancy’s thinking man’s hero, a CIA analyst turned action star, saving the world. The best of the bunch remains the first. The Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as the only man who correctly guesses the true intentions of a Soviet captain (Sean Connery) stealing an untrackable nuclear submarine with plans to defect. Not only is it the best story of this collection but director John McTiernan ratches up the tension to great effect making the most of both his stars.

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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  • Title: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie reviewThrowback Tuesday takes back at 2003’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Adapted from the comic by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill, the film takes place at the end of the 19th Century when a terrorist organization begins pushing countries to a world war. Tasked to prevent such an outcome, a select team is put together including professional big game hunter and adventurer Allan Quartermain (Sean Connery), Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), vampire scientist Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), invisible thief Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran), immortal doucebag Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), Dr. Henry Jekyll and his monstrous alter-ego (Jason Flemyng), and tagging along for the ride is uninvited American Agent Tom Sawyer (Shane West).

Although the film did well enough internationally to earn back more than double its costs, it had mixed reaction from both fans and critics (and Connery even stated it was a deciding factor in his decision to retire). The convoluted screenplay by James Robinson overcomplicating what should be a straightforward action adventure certainly didn’t do the project any favors.

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