The Fugitive DVD > Reviews > Ford is the Fugitive

Author's product rating:   

Did you enjoy it?	Loved it
Story	Outstanding
Characters / Performances	Outstanding
Special Effects	Good
Soundtrack	Good

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

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

he Fugitive is a 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), Julianne Moore, and Joe Pantoliano. The film was also nominated 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. He manages a breakout whilst on the bus to the prison, and from then on is a fugitive on the run. Kimble partakes in a cat and mouse game with Sykes, with Gerard (Jones) the inmate complicating matters.

Regarded at the time of release and still now as a great film, it was the one of the highlights of Ford's career, and his part in it helped propel the film to the success that it enjoyed. A great film if you enjoy a thought provoking story, action filled sequences and brilliant and convincing characterization.