who was the best Jack Ryan?

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most people have had the bond discussion who was the best bond, connery, moore, lazenby, dalton, brosnan and everyone has a favorite.

I was talkin to a friend and I recently purchased "patriot games" and "clear and present danger" for 5 bucks a piece, they were on sale at FYE.

I already had Red October and Sum of all fears.

I loved the books and Red October was always my favorite of the 4 movies, naturally for me sum of all fears doesn't even really rank with the other 3.

But I have always said that Alec Baldwin was the best Jack Ryan by leaps and bounds over Harrison Ford. Obviously ford is a great actor who always got great parts, from star wars to jones to jack ryan, etc. He's your modern day Gregory Peck, Gary Cooper type actor. He was ok as Ryan but everyone seems to associate Ryan with Harrison Ford, while its only 4 movies in total and he did 2.

Mainly I always felt he was too old to be Ryan, secondly he just didn't play a convinicng ryan. He tried to play him too much like a super hero james bond type, rather than desk guy who gets thrown into high conflict situations like Baldwin did.