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The Fugitive, 12 December 2012

Author: ipek-inan from Turkey

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Doctor Richard Kimble is a doctor who is very clever.He works Chicago Memorial Hospital.Her best friend name is Charlie Nichols and her wife is Helen who is very beautiful..One night, Richard's hospital friends get together at the party.Richard meet Dr.Alex Lentz during the party.Lentz working his new drug RDU-90.Richard thinks 'this drug is very harmful for people.In that night the party ends and he and his wife go to the their house.But when they came the house Richard's telephone was calling.Person on the phone saying:come to hospital please a patient needs you..If you are late,patient will be died.He leave her wife and goes to the hospital.The surgery ends and he comes their house.He hears different voice.The shadow want kill to Helen.Richards try to fight him.But shadow's - a man- artificial arm remains Richard's hands.The man escapes and Richard run to Helen.But Helen is dead.Richard is very upset about this situation.The court finds him guilty. And give the death penalty.He and some prisoner go to the prison by bus.But bus have an accident and however he escapes.Detective Gerard searches him.Kimble escapes from Gerard and police.He has got a big adventure.He thinks 'I must find Helen's killer'. This film is very good,big action scene,thought-provoking'who is the kill her?' and etc.. My best scenes are Kimble jumps into waterfalls and I learned who is killer...There is also a book of this film.I would recommend to everybody..

"The Fugitive" (1993) works because both the man chased and the man doing the chasing are likable, 23 October 2012

Author: David Allen (TexAllen@Rocketmail.Com) from Columbia (Lancaster County) Pennsylvania, USA

"The Fugitive" (1993) works because both the man chased and the man doing the chasing are likable.

Harrison Ford plays a wrongly accused of murder physician escaping from captivity, trying to prove his innocence by locating the actual criminal who did what Ford is accused of doing (murder).

It'a a similar, though less leisurely, role to that played by Ford in "Witness" (1985) in which Ford plays a Philadelphia police detective wrongly accused of crime and hunted by other Philly cops (who are actually guilty of the crime).

The entire movie moves, and pulls the audience in because both the protagonist and his pursuer are likable characters.

The policeman doing the chasing is portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones, who got a Best Actor Academy Award for "The Fugitive" (1993) and deserved it.

The audience roots for both the man chased and also the man doing the chasing.

It is important for audiences to like characters they are presented with in dramatic movies. The more humanity, character depth, and intelligence a character shows through his dialog and actions, the better the movie, and this applies to all characters in the story, certainly all the main ones.

"The Fugitive" (1993) does this very well, better than any other famous action movie I ever saw.

Another thing which makes "The Fugitive" (1993) a superior movie is the complete absence of four letter word expletives commonly heard in most other "action movies" (espcially Bruce Willis movies). Good action movies are possible and better without the expletives. But in today's world (2012), it is unusual to see and hear a movie without them, sadly.

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Written by Tex Allen, SAG Actor.

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Great Performances, Action and Suspense, 25 September 2012
Author: Michael_Elliott from Louisville, KY

The Fugitive (1993)

*** 1/2 (out of 4)

After wrongfully being convicted of murdering his wife, Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) gets a chance to escape and try and track down the real killer but he's got a U.S. Marshall (Tommy Lee Jones) in hot pursuit. Based on the popular 60's TV show, THE FUGITIVE works on so many levels that it's easy to see why it became a hit when originally released and why it remains so popular nearly twenty-years later. I think the greatest thing that the film has going for it is that it basically works as two very good films rolled into one. The first forty-five minutes or so we're given a terrific action film that starts off with an introduction to the murder and conviction of the doctor and then we go full steam into the intense action. We get a terrific train-bus wreck, which is still impressive all these years later and right from here we go for faster action as we see Kimble trying to evade the police and the U.S. Marshall. These scenes are full of wonderful action but the way Andrew Davis keeps the suspense building is where the true magic is. The second half of the film sees a little less action as we find the doctor doing the investigating trying to figure out who killed his wife. Both sequences work so well and especially when you mix them together as you really get a complete film. It also doesn't hurt that you've got two great performances. Ford could play this type of role in his sleep but I still don't think he got enough credit. He's really not playing an action hero here, I mean, serious, he gets beaten by a one-armed man. He really plays a doctor here who must go beyond his normal limits to try and clear his name and I thought Ford did a great job with it. There's no question, however, that the film belongs to Jones who rightfully picked up the Best Supporting Oscar for his work here. I really loved the comic timing that Jones brought the film and I thought this humor really helped make the film so memorable. The highlight for me has to be the scene where a woman is screaming uncontrollably and Jones simply tells her to shut up. Joe Pantoliano, Sela Ward and a briefly scene Julianne Moore are also good in their parts. THE FUGITIVE ends in a way you'd expect it to but there's still no question that it's a tense little thriller that works on most levels.

Excellent Chase Film!, 19 August 2012

Author: g-bodyl from United States

The Fugitive by far is one of the best films dealing with fugitives on the run from the law. This film has two solid leads and it reminds me of action films from the 80's. The train sequence at the beginning of the film is definitely one of the best train sequences seen on film.

This film is about a doctor who is wrongly accused of murdering his wife and is sentenced to death. He escapes from prison to prove his innocence. But can he do that with the U.S Marshals on his tail?

The acting is very good. Harrison Ford is at his best as the man on the run. Even better is Tommy Lee Jones as the head Marshal. He was great and is someone you don't want to mess with.

Overall, this is one of the best thrillers of the 1990's. This movie has a fair share of action and drama combined. I rate this film 10/10.

intriguing movie all the way about trying to catch a slippery eel, 4 August 2012

Author: daviddaphneredding from United States

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"I DON'T CARE!" "Your fugitive's name is Dr. Richard Kimball. Go find him." These lines of Tommy Lee Jones practically set the tone for the chase for the vascular surgeon who was accused of killing his wife in Chicago in this superior Warner Brothers production. The storyline, especially for me and others in my generation who watched the TV series by the same name in the 60's, is very familiar: Dr. Kimball is, to reiterate, falsely accused of killing his wife, though Deputy Marshal Sam Gerard very stubbornly refuses to believe it. An unfair judge at an unfair trial sentences Kimball to be killed, but on the way by bus to the place where the execution is to take place there is a wreck where, after an attempted killing on the bus, the bus gets swayed onto a railroad when a fast train plunges into the bus, (which is real in the movie), leaving Kimball to escape to run back to Chicago, and so he does. I was impressed with the acting. Tommy Lee Jones justly earned the Best Supporting Actor Award for 1993, and Harrison Ford aptly conveyed the fact that he was a bitter and upset man, knowing he was unjustly accused of murder and very angry that his wife was dead and he did not know who the real killer was. Sela Ward was very appealing as Kimball's wife Helen, and Jereon Krabbe portrayed well the two-faced, crooked physician. The setting was and was not drawing: the Carolina woods made a beautiful part of nature, but some of the parts of Chicago were dismal at best. I was glued to the movie because of the story itself and the concomitant excitement. My late Mother, who was in her late 70's when she watched the DVD of it with me one night, like it as well, and she was very picky. Arnold Kopelson was a capable producer, and Andrew Davis was a skillful director, and I was especially impressed with the music of James Newton Howard. Yes, it was a very impressive movie, another one of those I have watched repeatedly.

Pure Genius, 25 July 2012

Author: Alyssa Black (SpaceyFan1) from United States

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Harrison Ford takes on the role of Chicago surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble in this 1993 film based on the popular 1960s series. Kimble is accused and convicted of the brutal murder of his wife Helen (Sela Ward)and is to be taken to the death house when the bus he is on is wrecked by a train. Now on the run as a fugitive, he is pursued by the obsessed Deputy US Marshal Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones in an Oscar-winning role). This film is one of my many favorites for the film's elements of action, pursuit and the sheer brilliance of Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones as each man faces off to discover the truth and Jones' hunt for Ford throughout the streets of Chicago. Fans of action/adventure films should definitely check out this classic and masterful thriller.

Classic Ford/Jones hide n seek story., 5 March 2012
Author: TxMike from Houston, Tx, USA, Earth

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Not a new movie, in fact almost 20 years old, but I managed to catch it on the ION network this weekend. Ford and Jones look pretty young.

The movie begins in the home at night, the wife is in her night clothes, there is a struggle, she ends up dead and the husband is accused of murder. We very briefly see the trial and a guilty verdict sends him to prison.

Harrison Ford is the husband, Dr. Richard Kimble. He maintains his innocence and claims a "one-armed man" was in their home, he struggled with him, was knocked out and doesn't remember much.

As he is being transported to prison there is a scuffle in the bus, it veers off the road, and tumbles down the embankment. When a guard says to him "you're a doctor, can you help him" regarding an injured man, Kimble answers "take my cuffs off." The movie might have ended quickly had it not been that the bus rolled onto train tracks, and now a train was about to hit. Kimble manages to get to safety and it took 90 minutes to determine for certainty that he had not died in the wreck but in fact escaped. The hunt was on.

The hunt is directed by Tommy Lee Jones as US Marshall Samuel Gerard. And most of the rest of the movie involves the cat 'n mouse game, Gerard trying to track down Kimble. While Kimble's motive was to gather evidence to prove his innocence.

Good movie, Ford and Jones are in top form here.

SPOILERS: Kimble works his way back to Chicago and the hospital where he had worked. He pieced together clues that led him to the assassin with the prosthetic arm, and eventually back to another doctor who had been falsifying data in an important drug test to gain its approval. Dr Kimble was the target, not his wife, because he could expose the fraud and there was lots of $$Money on the line. All is well that ends well.

An Action Movie Of The Highest Calibre, 16 December 2011

Author: seymourblack-1 from United Kingdom

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This exhilarating action thriller is full of plot twists, suspense and excitement from start to finish but what distinguishes it from other movies of the same genre is its two main characters who are both good guys who, through extraordinary circumstances, become adversaries. Both men are very smart and incredibly determined and it's their efforts to outwit each other that grips the audience so strongly and creates a dual which is riveting to watch.

The story of a man who's unjustly accused of a crime he didn't commit and then has to go in search of the real culprit to prove his innocence (whilst also being pursued by the police) is, of course, a set up for the classic double chase plot which inevitably puts the accused in numerous dangerous situations and under constant pressure because of the ever present threat of capture.

In "The Fugitive" Dr Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford), is a Chicago surgeon who's sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his wife. Whilst he and some other prisoners are being transported by bus to the Illinois State Penitentiary, an attempted escape by one of the other prisoners leads to the driver losing control of the vehicle and swerving off the road and into the path of an on-coming train. The resulting collision provides Kimble with the opportunity to make a run for it. After making his escape, this man who has nothing to lose decides to track down the one-armed man who he knows was his wife's real murderer.

Deputy U.S. Marshall Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), is the man whose job it is to hunt down the escaped convicts and after the bus crash, he quickly arrives on the scene and takes charge of the situation. His dogged pursuit of Kimble is relentless but surprisingly as the chase goes on, what he discovers leads him to suspect that his prey may not be guilty and what he learns about Kimble inspires a certain amount of respect although this never, even for a second, deters him from his single-minded commitment to carrying out his task to its conclusion.

"The Fugitive" is skilfully directed by Andrew Davis and the pace of the action is absolutely breathtaking. The sequence early on in the film during which the audience sees the events that led to Kimble's arrest is a marvellous example of this and the momentum is then maintained as there are numerous situations where Kimble has narrow escapes from being caught and the consistent level of tension just seems to escalate as Gerard is regularly only one step behind his quarry.

The action set pieces are all brilliantly staged but the bus / train crash is easily the most impressive with further excitement being added when Kimble makes his incredible last minute leap to escape from danger. The screenplay is also excellent and includes some enjoyable moments of humour which provide an effective counterpoint to the suspense which features strongly throughout.

Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones are thoroughly convincing in their roles and show so much more of what they're thinking and feeling by their expressions and body language than they do through what they say. Ford's fear and the strain he's under, is constantly evident in his face and Jones, whose character is a consummate professional who's adopted a persona which works well for him in the context of his job, subtly shows that below his aggressive surface resides a rather warmer and more understanding man.

It's easy to see why this movie was such a box office success as it scores highly on every level and combines visceral excitement so perfectly with intelligence and humour.

Is it just me..., 3 December 2011

Author: Johnny Hollywood from Sydney, Australia

…Or are all American thrillers basically the same movie, just slightly altered and repackaged each time? Okay, I know at heart that there are some obvious details in each film that make it different to ones before it, but I can't be the only one who's thought that, by simply pulling a bunch of dangerous-sounding buzz words out of the air (words like 'prosecution', 'corruption', 'mistaken identity' and 'manhunt') I could form the foundation of the next big action thriller. So why, then, is Andrew Davis' The Fugitive, a film that contains all these base ingredients and more, so much fun to watch? Short answer: a solid story, good acting and a cast of characters that fit into their respective roles like a favourite pair of pyjamas. Long answer: by all means, read on.

Harrison Ford is Dr. Richard Kimble, a respected man sentenced to prison for murdering his wife, despite being adamant that it was not him, but a mysterious one-armed man, who committed the crime. On the bus ride to the big house, the other prisoners stage a daring escape, allowing Kimble to flee and begin a life of anonymity whilst seeking out the real killer. That is, until he crosses paths with Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), a hard-nosed US Marshal who cares not for Kimble's excuses, and whose only concern is restoring the status quo.

Excluding the excellent Indiana Jones trilogy (notice I've left out the fourth instalment, which I refuse to mention by name), Ford has made this genre his forte, making him a natural fit for the desperate, determined Kimble. Jones earns the Best Supporting Actor Oscar by playing the typical Jones role to great effect: a no-nonsense tough guy with a sideswiping sense of humour. And Joe Pantoliano, best known as Ralph Cifaretto (or Cypher, if you're no Sopranos fan) makes under-appreciated contributions as Gerard's right-hand man.

Suspense is on high supply throughout. My personal favourite is Kimble's attempt to hide in plain sight at the hospital, a tense and dramatic set piece that sets a paranoid tone for the rest of the film. But there is a plethora of energetic, 'edge-of-your-seat' moments to satisfy film connoisseurs and action junkies alike, including the sewer chase, the St. Patrick's Day parade and the rooftop climax, all of which comply with the conventions of an action thriller nicely against the backdrop of a bleak, but not quite noir, Chicago CBD.

Speaking of conventions, it's clear that Davis has made a tight pace the top priority in The Fugitive, as the entire film is determined to remove any and all obstacles that would otherwise slow the movie down. Character development is restricted mainly to Ford's character, but is sprinkled in just enough to keep the rest of the cast from looking like cardboard cut-outs. But most pleasing was the omission of a romantic subplot. At different times during production, both Julianne Moore and Jane Lynch were scripted as Kimble's love interest. Despite the obvious pitfalls this would create from a logical perspective (considering Kimble spends the whole movie trying to avenge his beloved wife), it also sounds like the director has dodged a minefield of clichés by avoiding the beaten path; something I am very grateful for.

Admittedly, the film becomes a little convoluted in the third act. Depending on how much you've enjoyed The Fugitive, this alone might be enough to warrant a second viewing, but otherwise it's nothing that a quick trip to the IMDb won't fix. If you're looking for a theme to take away, I suppose the movie could act as an exposition of human nature in desperate times. However, I doubt that was on the agenda during filming, and so the film should instead be enjoyed as was intended: an absorbing, high-drama roller-coaster, which I expect will remain a staple of this genre for many decades to come.

*There's nothing I love more than a bit of feedback, good or bad. So drop me a line on jnatsis@iprimus.com.au and let me know what you thought of my review.*

A good thriller flick, 16 April 2011

Author: rtneupane from India

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Well I had seen the Hindi movie " Criminal" starring Manisha Koirala. So, scene by scene, dailogue by dailogue was copied by criminal from this movie till 1st 1 hour. Fugitive is an amazing movie and never lets you get bored even for a minute. All in all, a good thriller movie that has a good pace and keeps your mind busy with unexpected twists.

The movie is about a husband Dr.Richard Kimble ( Ford) who is convicted of his beloved wife's murder.God gives him one more chance when he flees from the bus carrying the criminals that meets with accident.Now his objective is to hunt down the real killer. Now this task is not so easy when you have a detective Gerad( Tomy lee) who has not let his whole team sleep just to get to this guy. Detective wont give up in his search and so wont Kimble in search of his wife's murder..Detective in every attempt misses Kimble by few seconds..

A well directed movie... You can watch it if you are bored and want to see a good thriller flick..

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