Saw The Fugitive. It was a pretty ripping action film, about a falsely accused man on the run from Johnny Law and hunting down the real culprit. It's based pretty closely (I think) off of the show of the same name. There's a bunch of fairly spectacular action scenes (early on there's a train wreck that's pretty kick-ass) and chase scenes come thick and fast. In the rare moments when the film settles down and has the fugitive doing some actual detective work, or when he's out-foxing the clever (or at least shouty) cops on his tail, it's pretty fun. Less fun for me were the needless and endless chase scenes. Also, when the motive of the true killer is revealed, it's not very believable. I kept thinking that there had to be some way apart from murder to accomplish the same goal. So okay, the film's plot is a little flimsy but, as I say, the action scenes are pretty good, so the film succeeds in being a good action film. Now if only I liked action movies...
Bonus fun: it's very entertaining to imagine that the film is a David Lynch-esque story of a paranoid schizophrenic. This pays off in scenes where he furtively feeds guns into a mailbox, or begins randomly shoving people, or raves in a wild-eyed manner about drugs in front of crowds.
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