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Advantages: The action never lets up
Disadvantages: None

The Fugitive is probably one of the finest action thrillers ever made, and definately Harrison Ford's best movie. Based on the television series of the same name, the best thing about The Fugitive is that it never lets up the pace, moving along at a thunderous and often breathtaking level. With its quick pacing, rock solid storyline and superb acting this is a great cat and mouse film, with Harrison Ford playing the slipperly fugitive and Tommy Lee ...
...a particularly enjoyable performance as the annoyed and stressed out police officer. Harrison Ford plays world renowned vascular surgeon Richard Kimble, who is charged with murder after his wife is found dead at home, despite his pleas that a one-armed burglar had in fact committed the crime. While he is being transported on a prison bus an accident occurs, leading to the bus overturning and Kimble escaping into the nearby woods. It is up to US ... Read review

Advantages: All Jack Ryan stories are together and in order
Disadvantages: Jack Ryan played by different actors

...Soviet nuclear sub heading for the US. The Government think he is going to attack but Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) thinks he wants to defect. Jack has a couple of hours to prove his theory before the US Government find the 'Red October' and blow it up. Sean Connery is brilliant as usual but I found The Hunt for Red October very slow to start with, although it got exciting towards the end. *Patriot Games* Patriot Games had me hooked from start to finish. ...
...then a race to stop the terrorist whose brother he killed from killing his family. Non-stop action and suspense. *Clear and Present Danger* Clear and Present Danger had me hooked from start to finish (although slightly complicated storyline). Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence aqnd heads off to Colombia to investigate the murder of one of the President's friends. This film is full of action and cover ... Read review

Advantages: The Last Crusade, Bonus Disc, Price
Disadvantages: The Temple of Doom

A truly great trilogy of films which everyone should own. The box-set brings together the 3 films and an extra DVD of bonus features, and can be found for very cheap online or in-stores. Of course the Last Crusade is the best of the 3 followed closely by the Raiders of the Lost Ark, but all 3 provide a great combination of action and comedy which i feel the Crystal Skull seemed to miss. While some may wait for the 4th film to be released in a new ... Read review

Advantages: Harrison Ford at his best.
Disadvantages: Not original.

...from a television series from the 1960\'s which instantly makes it more difficult to stand out because you are well aware that it lacks originality of its own. Problems aside.. Harrison Ford comes up with a near perfect performance as Dr Kimble, a surgeon wrongly accused of his wifes murder and becoming a rather unlikely fugitive of the law, hotly chased by US Marshal, Samuel Gerard played by Tommy Lee Jones. This thriller is played out at an exhilirating ... Read review

Advantages: Gripping
Disadvantages: none

"Frantic" is memorable mostsly as an "ambiance", an atmosphere rather than by the storyline or action-let's face it, a thriller is a thriller, the plots of which are not renowned for their originality! The story is straightforward: a doctor comes to Paris for a conference. His wife vanishes, and the rest of the film is the search of the husband, Harrisson Ford, for his wife, in a Paris totally alien to his life as a comfortable American doctor. He ...
...lends a vulnerable charm to the drug-taking, miniskirt-wearing, wild youth of her character. Seigner, against her will, helps Ford in his search; she unwittingly holds all the keys to unravelling the mistery. There are Hitchcockian touches of humour as they rush to airports, dowdy flats, canal boats, pursued by alarming foreign thugs. Interesting, as well, to note a reference to " Casablanca" when they go to a nightclub named the Blue parrot! Grace ... Read review