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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: Tommy Lee Jones' Academy Award Winning performance
Disadvantages: None

...1993 feature film, based on the television series "The Fugitive." It won Academy and Golden Globe awards (Tommy Lee Jones winning Oscar for Best Supporting Actor). The film was directed by Andrew Davis and stars Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, and Tommy Lee Jones as Deputy United States Marshal Samuel Gerard. The film also featured Andreas Katsulas as the one-armed man, Sela Ward as Kimble's wife, Jeroen Krabbé (who replaced Richard Jordan), ...
...for the Academy Award for Best Picture, one of the few films associated with a television series to be so honored. Dr Richard Kimble (Ford) is a successful surgeon in Chicago who returns from surgery to find his wife Helen, (Ward) dying after a brutal assault. The attacker is a one armed man, Frederick Sykes (Katsulas) who Kimble fights, but the man escapes. Kimble is charged for the murder of his wife and sentenced to death by lethal injection. ... 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: It is so funny..
Disadvantages: Only 90 minutes running time..

...asked me to go see Hancock with him I was actually slightly excited, as from the trailers it looks like a really funny film.. I was left wondering if I was going to be disappointed..? But I wasn't..! The Film At ninety minutes long it is not the most lengthy film, but it does not skimp on the drama or comedy. Released on July 2nd both in the United kingdom and the United States, it was one of the biggest box office smashes of recent films ...
...Hancock's public image Ray decides Hancock should go to prison and prove just how much he is needed in Los Angeles.. Its not long before the city realise quite how much they need him, when he is called upon to save a police officer in a hostage situation. Once again a hero, things seem unsettled.. Only to discover that not only is he special.. But he is not alone.. Ray's wife Mary is his opposite, super hero in her own right.. After explaining their ... Read review

Advantages: Entertaining and lots of action
Disadvantages: Some may prefer the other Indiana films

...been to see the latest Indiana Jones film this morning and thought I would share my opinion on it. I have always been a fan of the Indiana Jones films and wondered whether this could live up to my expectations as after all it has been quite some time since the last instalment we had! It's no hidden fact that a lot of people wondered if Harrison Ford could pull it off and so with this in mind I wasn't sure if I was going to be disappointed or not! ...
...to go on! Later on Indiana is asked to leave his position at the University due to the FBI not being pleased with him handing over information to the Russians and on his way out of town he is stopped by a young lad named Mutt, who tell hims his mother has been kidnapped but has managed to get a letter to him that she has told him to give to Indy has he will know what to do. The film follows Indiana as he unravels the meaning of the letter and helps ... Read review