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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: 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

Advantages: Familiar storylines, some okay suspense and acting (Paul Bettany)
Disadvantages: Firewall (2006) - disappointing

This heist film comes courtesy of director Richard Loncraine, who directed Paul Bettany in Wimbledon and brings him in as the villain in this 2006 film Firewall. The Plot I.T. expert Jack Stanfield is the brains behind many security systems. A family man, he leads a pretty normal existence until his family are kidnapped and held to ransom. Jack must bypass his own security systems and rob a bank he is protecting in order to preserve the safety ...
...the desperate actions of a man for whom family is of the utmost importance. The Cast and Performances Harrison Ford is very good at playing distressed characters, with Han Solo and Indiana Jones being prime examples. This time round, although the Jack Stanfield character is distressed, Ford doesn't really pull it off. There is an unconvincing air about his character, and I am not sure whether this is down to the script or the acting. Paul Bettany ... Read review

Advantages: Action and Adventure
Disadvantages: None

Patriot Games has it all.The gorgeous hero (Harrison Ford), and the simmering sexy bad guy (Sean Bean).From the Novel written by Tom Clancy this film tells the story of Jack Ryan, retired from the CIA, he is on a working trip to London with his wife(Anne Archer) and daughter (Thora Birch).Outside Buckingham palace Ryan saves a member of the Royal Family from a kidnap attempt by the IRA.In the process he kills one of the terrorists brothers who then ... Read review