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The Fugitive
PG-13 1993 ‧ Thriller/Action ‧ 2h 10m
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Although the film is relentlessly devious, it plays like real events. Davis and his actors ground all the action and dialogue in reality.
The Fugitive has the standards of an earlier, more classic time and where characters continued to change and develop right up until the last frame.
Jones has much more dialogue than Kimble, and in the screenplay by Jeb Stuart and David Twohy it always serves an intelligent purpose. Jones is surrounded by good character actors, who for once sound like Chicago cops in their words and inflections.
The device of the film is to keep Kimble only a few steps ahead of his pursuers. It is a dangerous strategy, but Davis tells the story of the pursuit so clearly on the tactical level that we can always understand why Kimble is only so far ahead, and no further.
Ford is the great modern movie everyman: dogged, determined, and brave. As an actor, nothing he does seems merely for show, and in the face of this sensational material he deliberately plays down, lays low, gets on with business.
In The Fugitive, his role is more complex than it seems. As the chase continues, he gradually becomes convinced of the innocence of his prey, but this conviction is wisely never spelled out in dialogue, and remains ambivalent, expressed in the look in his eyes, or his pauses between words.
Jones is one of the great craggy presences of the screen, often cast as a villain, but with a half-masked amusement that borders on contempt for lesser beings:
He has the charm of a hangman promising to make things as comfortable as possible.
Free but isolated in a cold winter landscape of hostile stones, icy water and barren trees, Kimble is pursued in a manhunt directed by a deputy U.S. marshal (Tommy Lee Jones).
The Fugitive is a film that never relaxes its tension, even for an instant. This is pure filmmaking on a master scale.
Kimble is sentenced to death, but escapes during a collision between his prison bus and a train.
The crash sequence is ambitious and electric, with Kimble fleeing for his life while a locomotive bears down on him.
The man is Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford), a respected Chicago surgeon, who returns home one night to find his wife fatally beaten by a one-armed man who flees after a struggle.
All of the evidence points to Kimble’s guilt.
The story involves a cat-and-mouse game between a man unjustly accused of having murdered his wife, and a law officer who tracks him with cunning ferocity.
This was, of course, Hitchcock’s favorite theme, touching on the universal dread of the innocent man wrongly accused.
Andrew Davis’s The Fugitive (1993) is a tense, taut and expert thriller that becomes something more than that, an allegory about an innocent man in a world prepared to crush him.
Davis paints with bold visual strokes so that the movie rises above its action-film origins and becomes operatic.
When Cleef was born the doctor smacked him on his ass and then begged for mercy when he drew down on him….cleef said as he took off his hat, “you know, once I’ve taken a job…” 😔
the film is all about Tuco!!!
Also train a young man in ninjitsu while traveling the land, helping jokes out and fighting crime.
Van Cleef owned the TV and movie western genres even before For a Few Dollars More: High Noon, The Tin Star, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and practically every TV western of the golden age.
"Being born with a beady-eyed sneer was the best thing that ever happened to me."
--Lee Van Cleef
Wasn't he also in a few ninja movies?
I know him from The Master, as MST3K did an episode where they riffed on a couple episodes of that show.
One of the best bad guy actors ever
Literally " The Bad" in the movie... but Tuco was the Best.... actor..
He's great. Chilling looks.
The only person I've ever seen whose profile was in silhouette from the front.
Hey, don’t forget he’s the Army marksman who fires the grenade that kills The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
He's also Master Ninja
Given the choice between the pretty boys or the character actors I strongly favour the character actors.
I had heard that story. Thanks for sharing it.
Lee Van Cleef's accounting boss fired him so he wouldn't have to miss being in a play due to the 2 weeks notice rule Lee felt duty bound to fulfill. Wouldn't it be nice to have politicians with that sense of duty?