A rare example of everything in the Hollywood machine coming together in the right way at the right time and working perfectly.
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09/12/08
The Fugitive (1993)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:48
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: Exhilarating and intense, this high-impact chase thriller is a model of taught and efficient formula film making.
Runtime: 2 hrs 41 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: In this near-perfect suspense movie adapted from the popular 1960s television series that starred David Janssen, renowned vascular surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) has been falsely... [More]
Starring: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Andreas Katsulas, Jeroen Krabbe
Director: Andrew Davis
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Reviews for The Fugitive
A glossy, formula chase movie with the requisite number of extravagant action sequences (most notably a massive train crash).
01/26/06
Very good, but not perfect.
05/06/04
"Innovative" is not a legitimate description of The Fugitive, but "entertaining" is.
01/01/00
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01/02/04
Davis paints with bold visual strokes so that the movie rises above its action-film origins and becomes operatic.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe performances transform this otherwise orthodox cat-and-mouse movie into a gripping experience.
05/20/08
If you were expecting subtlety, you should have your head examined, but this money machine works like gangbusters.
01/09/02
One of the better attempts at turning a TV show into a movie.
10/31/07
The film is so stylish, so funny and so heart-stopping in its suspense that the audience simply doesn't care about flaws.
01/01/00
A flurry of stunts, close shaves and deeds of desperate daring, it easily transcends its television origins to become a stylish pacemaker-buster on the order of "Die Hard, MD."
01/01/00
Top CriticA consummate nail-biter that never lags, it leaves you breathless from the chase yet anxious for the next bit of mayhem or clever plot twist.
05/20/08
Top CriticA terrific thriller that may stretch the credulity of the audience at times, but leaves them well-entertained for better than two hours.
01/01/00
Tommy Lee Jones offers the fun and drive of this largely implausible but highly enjoyable remake of the popular TV series.
02/19/08
Both stars have toughness and restraint that make their characters' battle of wits truly hypnotic, and in many ways more credible than it was on television.
05/20/03
Top CriticNot only did they get their smarts by casting Harrison Ford and the engimatic Tommy Lee Jones, they wrote a script (screenplay by Jeb Stuart and David Twohy) that was filled with tension, sprinkled with suspense, choca-bloc with action, and for the most p
09/20/02
Harrison Ford is awfully good, as usual, looking genuinely frantic and haggard for the first time since, well, Frantic.
01/01/00
...still stands up today as it did eight years ago as the definitive example of how to make a summer movie right (heck; how to make any movie right).
08/01/03
Ford and Jones make admirable adversaries, Ford a resourceful but vulnerable hero and Jones a tough and relentless cop with a touch of compassion....
05/22/06
In a genre where one is almost always asked to allow leaps of logic, the script repeatedly astonished me with its intelligence, its attention to detail and its respect for the audience.
01/01/00
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