On 2010-01-19 K. Swanson, Austin, TX United States wrote: 4.6 stars
I love this flick, and think both the script and Ford do justice to the original, justifiably beloved tv series. I don´t think this blu-ray transfer does much justice to the original print, though; while it´s a good, crisp picture, it´s not much of an improvement over my dvd.
The film itself is an excellent adaptation of the series, and the Big Pharma conspiracy angle is an excellent updating that works well. There´s thrills aplenty, with minimal violence, which I appreciate more every year as idiot directors and writers rely on guns and blood to fill the holes in their ill-planned plots. There´s more intelligence than that at work here, and director Andrew Davis makes it all mesh tightly and suspensefully. The ending is a bit weak: I don´t buy the scene at the conference, but it works to the degree it must, and that´s good enough.
Add Ford and Jones at the top of their games and it´s a movie worth watching many times, whenever one needs to be reminded what a truly fine thriller can be.
Too bad they didn´t polish it up enough for it to be a blu-ray worthy of the description high-def.. And summed up by saying Exciting film that deserves a better blu-ray transfer. Currently The Fugitive has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Arnold Kopelson claimed Do you know anyone who hasn´t seen this movie? A box-office smash when released in 1993, this spectacular update of the popular 1960s TV series stars Harrison Ford as a surgeon wrongly accused of the murder of his wife. He escapes from a prison transport bus (in one of the most spectacular stunt-action sequences ever filmed) and embarks on a frantic quest for the true killer´s identity, while a tenacious U.S. marshal (Tommy Lee Jones, in an Oscar-winning role) remains hot on his trail. Director Andrew Davis hit the big time with this expert display of polished style and escalating suspense, but it´s the antagonistic chemistry between Jones and Ford that keeps this thriller cooking to the very end. In roles that seem custom-fit to their screen personas, the two stars maintain a sharply human focus to the grand-scale manhunt, and the intelligent screenplay never resorts to convenient escapes or narrative shortcuts. Equally effective as a thriller and a character study, this is a Hollywood blockbuster that truly deserves its ongoing popularity. --Jeff Shannon
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