The Fugitive – Starring Harrison Ford & Tommy Lee Jones

The Fugitive (1993)  Directed by Andrew Davis (Under Siege (1992), Collateral Damage (2002)), starring Harrison Ford (Witness (1985), The Devil’s Own (1997), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), and many more) and Tommy Lee Jones (Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), JFK (1991), The Sunset Limited (2011)).  In this iconic thriller, brimming with action, Harrison Ford is excellent as fugitive falsely convicted murderer Dr. Richard Kimble and Tommy Lee Jones is superb as the hard, determined Deputy Marshall Samuel Gerard, a portrayal for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, whose task it is to track the equally determined Dr. Kimble.  Andrew Davis’ directing is tight and sharp, maintaining an exquisite level of tension throughout the film, aided by excellent special effects and highly effective music by James Newton Howard.  The supporting cast is without fault, including Julianne Moore, in a small role as an emergency room doctor.  If you haven’t seen The Fugitive, see it, and if you have seen the film, see it again.  It’s really that good. (PR)

See our posts on the film Extraordinary Measures with Harrison Ford, and the films In the Valley of Elah and No Country for Old Men, starring Tommy Lee Jones, and the film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, directed by, and starring, Tommy Lee Jones.  Also see our post on the film Chloe, starring Julianne Moore.

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Extraordinary Measures – Starring Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford

Extraordinary Measures (2010)(DVD)  Directed by Tom Vaughan, starring Brendan Fraser (The Mummy (1999), The Mummy Returns (2001), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)) and Harrison Ford (Blade Runner (1982), Witness (1985), The Fugitive (1993), The Devil’s Own (1997), and, of course, many others).  A bit of a tear-jerker medical drama, Extraordinary Measures, based on a true story, is about the development of a drug to treat Pompe Disease, which damages muscle and nerve cells throughout the body.  While the pharmaceutical industry gets off rather lightly, the difficulties of medical research, drug development and  life-threatening childhood disease is nevertheless brought to the fore.  However, as far as the film itself is concerned, the dialogue is flat, the characters are generic, the directing, frankly, uninspired.  Brendan Fraser is leaden and ponderously empty, while Harrison Ford plays the cantankerous, socially challenged character he has portrayed perhaps too often and, here, in Extraordinary Measures, one has the impression that  things have been reheated one time too many.  Nevertheless, the film deserves attention for bringing to the public consciousness the plight of children suffering from debilitating, often fatal, disease. (PR)

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