TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Animenter There are women in the film, but none has anything you could call a personality.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

dlegassey Perfect film. Nothing at all wrong with it. Harrison Ford was the perfect actor for this role.

merelyaninnuendo The FugitiveIt is one of those features that completely relies upon the screenplay and not the concept for no matter how simple it gets its twists and tricks will bedazzle the viewers in each and every frame as it ages on screen. Andrew Davis has done a plausible job as a director but the real game changer in here is the co-writer; Jeb Stuart, who also wrote the infamous Die Hard. Harrison Ford pulls it off like a charm along with a brilliant performance by Tommy Lee Jones which got him a well deserved Oscar for it. The Fugitive has everything in its right place i.e. from gripping screenplay to exhilarating chase sequences (one of the best part of it is that it keeps the audience engaged through these close encounters in the cat and mouse chase), from twisted plot to brilliant performances and from amazing background score (James Newton Howard has as always done a marvelous work in here) to beautiful cinematography.

jamariana Films about people being framed or misunderstood - The Warriors (1979) and Jagten (2012) come to mind - are often so brilliantly dramatic and entertaining. The Fugitive was cool, but I don't get all the Oscar attention it ended up getting. It seems like a pretty standard action film to me, and those kinds of movies never get anything beyond one or two technical nods.

spencergrande6 I feel like all the Oscar love gives this film a strange reputation. Did it deserve them? In hindsight, probably not. Does that somehow make this a lesser film? Of course not.This is an entertaining thrill ride but lacks the subtlety, character nuance or social/political relevance to leave a lasting impact. Does anyone really remember the plot? Or just the chase scenes and waterfall dive and insane train crash and the two great actors facing off in what is basically their movie star personas perfected?(How did Tommy Lee win for this? I don't know what his perception was at the time but this is a straight Tommy Lee perf. I love him and all but there was also Fiennes and Postelthwaite that year. Just saying.)