The Fugitive
As reviewed by Miguel Cystinfected Kesey
It wasn't me, it was the one-armed man! Well, that's not quite the case in this film. It was the dude with a prosthetic arm...so the line should be : "It wasn't me, it was the man with one arm and one of those plastic arm things, you know, those prosthetic things? The ones that weren't available when the original Fugitive TV Show was around? You know what I'm talking about?"...of course if Doctor Richard Kimble had said that, I'm sure he'd have been shot right away.
Anywho, this movie stars one of my faves, Harrison Ford as Doctor Richard Kimble. But it also has Tommy Lee Jones as Lieutenant Gerrard. There are a few strange coincidences in this film...as dear old Harrison was running around, he passed a train reading "Kimball"...which is sort of like Kimble, and a few seconds later, there is an aerial view of the city, which passes a building with the word "Harrison" on it. Aww, freaked the pants off me, man.
The film kept me interested for an hour or so, but by the end my attention was elsewhere. In fact I missed the end because I was reading Kerrang! So, I don't know what happened. It was relatively gripping at first; a beardy Harrison is accused of killing his wife, and sentenced to death, but the bus that he's being taken to prison in crashes and he escapes, to become a fugitive on the run (which is like The Fugitive meets Nuns On The Run) trying to find the guy who actually DID kill his wife. It turns out to be some big conspiracy thing...Anyway, that's not what happened in the original TV series, though, the train he was on crashed and then he ran about forevermore looking sexy, getting a new woman every episode, and somehow managing to evade capture, despite seemingly shacking up with almost EVERYONE in the goddamn country by the end of the series.
But that's not that important...Tommy Lee Jones brings wiseass humour to the film, although, it's not really that funny. Harrison is far too scared looking to be his usual cool and suave Indiana Jones-esque self. But all in all, it's not that bad a film. It just gets really boring at the end. The start's cool though. I'd give it 24 out of 20. "What?" screams Harrison, "'The Fugitive' was some of my best work!" Ooops, sorry, Harry Son 4d, it wasn't me...it was the one legged testicle.