The Hunt for Red October (1990)

The Hunt for Red October rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.5/10· 228K votes

Rotten Tomatoes88%

Metacritic58%

TMDb7.382/10· 4K votes

With 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.5/10 on IMDb and 58/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About The Hunt for Red October

A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!

Cast of The Hunt for Red October

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  Sean Connery

  as Capt. 1st Marko Ramius

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  Alec Baldwin

  as Dr. Jack Ryan

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  Scott Glenn

  as CDR Bart Mancuso (USS Dallas)

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  Sam Neill

  as Capt. 2nd Vasily Borodin

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  James Earl Jones

  as Vice ADM James Greer

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  Joss Ackland

  as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko

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  Richard Jordan

  as Dr. Jeffrey Pelt, National Security Advisor

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  Peter Firth

  as Capt. 2nd Ivan Putin (Political Officer, Red October)

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  Tim Curry

  as Dr. Yevgeni Petrov (Red October)

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  Courtney B. Vance

  as Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)

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  Stellan Skarsgård

  as Capt. 2nd Viktor Tupolev (V.K. Konovalov)

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  Jeffrey Jones

  as Skip Tyler

The Hunt for Red October facts

Budget

$30M

Box office

$200.5M

Collection

The Jack Ryan Collection

Our take on The Hunt for Red October

John McTiernan's 1990 action-thriller sets a taut game of nerve beneath the sea. Captain Marko Ramius takes the Red October, a new and technologically superior Soviet nuclear submarine, toward the American coast, and Washington fears an attack. CIA analyst Jack Ryan alone suspects the truth: Ramius means to defect, and Ryan has only hours to find him and prove it before the entire Soviet fleet hunts the sub down. McTiernan builds suspense through strategy, deduction and submarine cat-and-mouse rather than open combat. It rewards viewers who like intelligent, dialogue-rich Cold War thrillers and procedural tension; those craving nonstop action may find its pacing deliberate.