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 Catch him if you can. The Fugitive is on the run! Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones race through the breathless manhunt movie based on the classic TV series. Ford is prison escapee Dr. Richard Kimble, a Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife and determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime. Jones (1993 Academy Award and Golden Globe winner as Best Supporting Actor) is Sam Gerard, an unrelenting bloodhound of a U.S. Marshal. They are hunted and hunter. And as directed by Andrew Davis (Under Siege), their nonstop chase has one exhilarating speed: all-out. So catch him if you can. And catch an 11-on-a-scale-of-10 train wreck (yes, the train is real), a plunge down a waterfall, a cat-and-mouse jaunt through a Chicago St. Patrick´s Day parade and much more. Better hurry. Kimble doesn´t stay in one place very long!
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