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There is nothing wrong with this movie, really, it's a nice, fast-paced, generic clone of its predecessor The Fugitive, it just doesn't deserve that much of your money.
OK, remember how on Three's Company, our trio lived in fear that Mr. Roper, the land lord, would kick Jack out because he wasn't really gay, so Mr. Roper became sort of a friendly bad guy? |
| Then he and his wife got their own spin-off called The Ropers, as if we actually cared enough about their lives to watch them for 30 minutes without the benefit of those cute young tenants of theirs? And remember how in the Fugitive, we know Harrison Ford is innocent, but he's still being hunted by the US Marshal Tommy Lee Jones, who is ostensibly a good guy but we have to root against him catching Ford? US Marshals = The Ropers. |
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Take The Fugitive, add a little Con Air, take away the charismatic stars of Con Air, drop in the total lack of tension in Airport 75, a sprinkling of Die Hard 3, and you have a nice, generic Hollywood action movie for early spring. Directed by Stuart Baird (Executive Decision), one would expect some genuine cool ass-kickin. This time, he substitutes a little banal cross-intrigue and a ludicrous premise. Actually, the semi-political clusterfuck double-cross twist is the only thing that makes this movie watchable. |
| Wesley Snipes (the fugitive) is no Harrison Ford but he does insert something interesting into the movie - however, he's on the lam and he hasn't even been convicted - somehow, mobilizing the authorities across the state and even across state lines seems a little... drastic. |
| Robert Downey Jr plays a morally ambiguous tagalong and all I could think was, "Robert, isn't it nice not being strung out? Do movies and play with your son - look, aren't you having fun tromping through the woods with a big gun? Stay clean, man." He looked hollow. Boing - plot explanation out of the blue, roll credits. Nice and tidy. |
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| The same team that backed up Tommy Lee Jones chasing Ford is back (there were other people?) and that is kind of cool, I guess. An amusing bit of dialogue, taken out of context, sums up my feeling about the film: (lady from Lee's team) I've never seen that before. Lee: I have. So have we. I can't believe they even put his line in the preview - don't *remind* us it's a rehash, er, remake. I mean, sequel. |
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