First viewing of this movie was an enjoyable experience. After a few days, you can really start to pick it to pieces. This makes it not a great movie, but not a bad one either.
The movie whilst billed as a sequel to the fugitive, really bears no resemblance to the 1st installment other than Tommy Lee Jones returns as Samuel Gerard. This time Samuel Gerard is more of an action hero than the intriguing character of the fugitive. Wesley Snipes replaces Harrison Ford as the innocent hero this time. Snipes character Mark Sheridan is special opps who has been hung out to dry and spends the movie attempting to prove his innocence. Gerard of course catches on early on that there is more to the chase than meets the eye.
Joe Pantoliano and Daniel Roebuck are both handy supportiung deputies. Pantoliano provides some of the better comic moments of the movie with his dialogie with Jones.
Robert Downey Jnr plays the "hero come villain" in the movie. I like Downey Jnr, and it is a pity that in real life he is having a helter scelter ride with his drug problems. In this movie he plays John Royce who as the movie moves on is clearly not the nice guy we are lead to believe he is.. This is the disappointing element of the movie. The writing was on the wall from very early on that Downey Jnr was the villain, and this took a fair amount of the "suspense" from the movie.
The action sequence at the beginning of the movie and the "plane crash" sequence are right up there with actionmovie openings.
Overall a good action movie, with a plot that is a little disappointing.
The movie whilst billed as a sequel to the fugitive, really bears no resemblance to the 1st installment other than Tommy Lee Jones returns as Samuel Gerard. This time Samuel Gerard is more of an action hero than the intriguing character of the fugitive. Wesley Snipes replaces Harrison Ford as the innocent hero this time. Snipes character Mark Sheridan is special opps who has been hung out to dry and spends the movie attempting to prove his innocence. Gerard of course catches on early on that there is more to the chase than meets the eye.
Joe Pantoliano and Daniel Roebuck are both handy supportiung deputies. Pantoliano provides some of the better comic moments of the movie with his dialogie with Jones.
Robert Downey Jnr plays the "hero come villain" in the movie. I like Downey Jnr, and it is a pity that in real life he is having a helter scelter ride with his drug problems. In this movie he plays John Royce who as the movie moves on is clearly not the nice guy we are lead to believe he is.. This is the disappointing element of the movie. The writing was on the wall from very early on that Downey Jnr was the villain, and this took a fair amount of the "suspense" from the movie.
The action sequence at the beginning of the movie and the "plane crash" sequence are right up there with actionmovie openings.
Overall a good action movie, with a plot that is a little disappointing.