Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Movie Review: **** The Fugitive (1993)

"The Fugitive" features Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble who is convicted of murdering his wife, despite claiming his innocence.  It also features Tommy Lee Jones as a federal marshal who heads a team for recapturing escaped prisoners.  Somehow the corrections bus is hit by a train, and the doctor escapes.  This movie has some very dramatic scenes early on dealing with the doctor’s escape from the agents.  He makes his way back to Chicago, where he lived, and takes it upon himself to find the killer, while keeping himself hid.  The key has to do with a one-armed man, who killed his wife, and with whom he struggled the night of the murder.  This requires him to seek information at a public hospital, and in so doing he saves a boy’s life.  This movie has a lot of intrigue, as the doctor gets closer and closer to the killer.  It includes betrayal by friends, and a confrontation in the end.  Chicago police are after the doctor, and things don’t look good for him.  But he maintains his focus of finding his wife's killer.  This movie is based on a T.V. series of the same name and much of the same plot.

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