Let's see--he's been Han Solo in three films and Indiana Jones in three more. So why shouldn't Harrison Ford take on a new continuing character in Tom Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan? In this film; directed by Phillip Noyce; Ford picked up the baton when Alec Baldwin; who played Ryan in The Hunt for Red October; opted for a Broadway role instead. In this film; Ryan and his family are on vacation when Ryan saves a member of the British royal family from attack by Irish terrorists. The next thing he knows; the Ryan clan has been targeted by the same terrorists; who invade his Maryland home. The film can't shed all of Clancy's lumbering prose; or his techno-dweeb fascination with spy satellites and the like. But no one is better than Ford at righteous heroism--and Sean Bean makes a suitably snakey villain. --Marshall Fine