The Fugitive (1993) Movie REACTION! 

I think you misunderstood the phrase "I don't care." Gerard wasn't arresting Kimble for murder. He was arresting him for flight from justice. Then, he followed the evidence in the murder case because it would help him catch his fugitive. After he became convinced of Kimble's innocence, he worked to prevent a miscarriage of justice, but he still brought in his fugitive.

"That's a loyal friend right there" Looks around nervously....

Every time I see this movie, when the guard from the bus is saying "I somehow pushed him out of the window" (or whatever the line is) I think to myself "But I'm a people person!" thanks to his part in Office Space.

"Loyal friend right there". LOL. Dr. Charles Nichols does it again in convincing you he has Richard's back. Great reaction as usual Madison.

The duty of the US Marshall's wasn't to prove Kimball's innocence, it was to apprehend him as an escaped convict, a felon. Kimball had already been convicted of murder and sentenced to prison, the US Marshall's office wasn't investigating this case.

One of my favorite movies. It has almost perfect pacing, and the acting is top notch. Every time it appears on TV I have to watch it. Glad you enjoyed it.

Hi Madison, Great reaction from you. I take it that you've never heard of the 1960's TV show, The Fugitive. It was huge and ran for four seasons. It was excellent and worth a look. The scenario was the same: Richard Kimble's wife was killed by a one armed man and Richard was convicted of her murder. He escaped and tried to find the killer while being pursued by Lt Gerard.

I enjoyed your reaction very much, Madison, as always! This is such a great film. I would recommend the sequel US Marshalls. If you want to see an 80’s vintage Tommy Lee Jones, as a villain, I highly recommend watching The Package, with Gene Hackman as the protagonist. VERY good movie…..

Watch Witness (1985) starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis. Won Oscar for Best Origunal Screenplay. Nominated for Best Actor and Best Picture. Neo-noir thriller!

Great movie great reaction. You obviously really liked this film so you'd like the sequel too. It's titled U.S. Mzrshalls. Tommy Lee Jones and the gang reprise their roles in another manhunt. Also a good intense movie.

Nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Supporting Actor Tommy Lee Jones.

I don't know if you noticed, and I'm well aware you didn't actually watch these two movies one after the other, but Joe Pantoliano, aka "Joey Pants", was in both. He's a great character actor that's been around since the 70s in so much stuff. He was Cosmo in this, and Cypher in The Matrix.

The Package (1989) Gene Hackman Tommy Lee Jones same director Andrew Davis

Hi MT.Did u know that this was taken from an enormously famous TV series that was very popular back in the 60s for 4 yrs starring David Janssen.A lot of recent day movies come from hit TV series like Mission Impossible which ran for about 7 yrs & were very clever & not as complicated as the Tom Cruise films.

The Fugitive was inspired by the real life case of Cleveland doctor Sam Sheppard who was convicted of murdering his wife in 1954 then later retried and set free in 1966.

In case you are interested, this story is loosely based on the real-life story of Dr. Sam Sheppard who was convicted in the murder of his pregnant wife circa 1954! This same story also inspired the TV series 'The Fugitive' featuring David Janssen as Dr. Kimble during the 1960s!

Sela Ward, who played Kimble's wife, won a Best Actress Emmy the following year. Her 911 call always gives me chills. She has a BFA from the University of Alabama and has been a painter since childhood. She sometimes does huge murals.

I’ve always loved this movie growing up. My dad told me it was a show back in the black and white days of television. This movie is amazing. They made a sequel to this film with Wesley Snipes. The movie was called U.S. Marshals

You can see what's left of the train out side Dillsboro, NC and the dam scenes were shot at Cheoah Dam north of Robbinsville same state

The Original Fugitive with David Janssen (Born 1931 - Died 1980) was a TV series that ran for 4 years 1963 to 1967. While it wasn't the action thrill ride as the current movie here. It was however a great series. The finale in the series he finally finds out where the one armed man is but Gerrard catches up with him before he can persue him. Durring the series he (Janssen) would befriend people along the way and work odd jobs etc. Everyone around him would get to liking him over time and then he would have to flee. Worth the watch you have never seen it. All the seasons are available on youtube if you wanna do a binge watch.

"We're back in the real world. We're out of the matrix." Oh no! She took the blue pill. 🤦‍♂️😭

Thanks for this reaction. If you haven’t seen it, you should check out Tommy Lee Jones in “Coal Miner’s Daughter” with Sissy Spacek. They’re both terrific in it (Spacek won the Oscar for it).

This is absolutely a film I will watch all the way through at any time.

The original TV series, which ran for four seasons, was not primarily a crime show; it was a character drama. In each episode, Richard Kimble (David Janssen) found himself in a different part of the country, working at one job or another, and interacting with all sorts of different people. He was a chauffeur; he was a fisherman; he was a migrant farmer. In some episodes, the chase from Philip Gerard (Barry Morse) wasn't much of a factor at all. From time to time, Kimble would reconnect with people like his sister. Once, Gerard, the world's worst cop, even had Kimble, who had lost his sight or something, cornered in a jail cell, if I'm correct. But he slipped away yet again. Finally, after four years, the series' premise was wearing thin, and things wrapped up with the two-part "The Judgment", which became the most-watched episode in TV history up to that time.

In the classic TV series, Gerard (Barry Morse) very much cared about nailing Kimble; he was obsessed with it, over four seasons.

Being that I was born and raised in Chicago on the far south side, this is one of those movie I love just on the Chicago locations alone, add a few actual Chicago reporters, and the scene with Kimble walking out of the bar I passed so many times on and the and later lived 2 blocks away. This is a fun movie for me.

One of my favs, Madison! Great job as always! Good analysis and commentary!

One of the best films from the 90's. You are so smart! You always figure out who the bad guy is. I thought I was good at it but you're a virtuoso lol. Enjoyed this reaction a lot. Thank you!

Tommy Lee Jones won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this film. He also reprised the role of Sam Gerard in the sequel U.S. Marshals. Wesley Snipes plays the person he is hunting, a former member of Marine Recon. Robert Downey, Jr. is also in the sequel.

Great movie, nice reaction. Thanks. This is an example of a movie where the protagonist does not change.

The dam he jumped from (and the bridge you can briefly see) is in western NC near a tiny place, Tapoco. Most locals now call it the Fugitive Dam! I've been past it many times.

Fun Facts: This Andrew Davis flick dropped two years after the Davis-led 'Under Siege' with (S)teven Seagal. Known as "Die Hard on a boat", '...Siege' also gave us 'The Fugitve' actors Jones, "Newman" (Marine), "Copeland" (Jones co-Merc), "Det.#2" (Navy Ship Supervisor) and Kimble's trial judge (Admiral Bates). Set in Chicago, Kimble's two (clueless) lead Detectives also appeared in the Chicago film 'Code of Silence' with Chuck Norris. The Kimble Cop who said, "yeah but she was MORE rich!" later played corrupt Gotham Det. "Weurtz" in 'The Dark Knight', whose "ongoing" investigation of Batman included Bigfoot. 😲 Bonus!! John McTiernan, the Director of 'Die Hard', (and Predator) ironically was convicted 9 years ago for 'perjury' and 'lying to Feds' regarding...illegal WIRE TAPS. Recall Sam Girard: "I want a whole bunch of phone taps" then later, "Doctor Nicholls LIED to me, find him!" 10 years before McTiernan problems. 🤔

The August 1967 final episode of the series this was based on was the highest-rated prime time show for 13 years until the famous "Who Shot J.R.?" episode of "Dallas" in November 1980.

I love "The Fugitive" for all the reasons you mentioned. Ford and Jones are great in every movie but together it's just awesome. And: everyone watching it for the first time is disappointed by Dr. Nichols. 😅

Great reaction to a great movie! Love it! Another Tommy Lee Jones movie that I like a lot, even if it isn't great cinema, is Man of the House. Such a fun movie too. 😀

The movie that started the trend of TV series to film adaptations, before "The Fugitive" the only notable ones were the Star Trek movies. Loved this when I watched it in the cinema, another great performance by Ford supported by a great cast 🤩

I learn something with each of your Film Fridays, Madison. It never occurred to me that Gerard was bargaining with KImble at the end and violating his code, but you're right. Oh. I also learned not to order you any donuts with sprinkles. There was some discussion at the script stage of developing the Julianne Moore character into a love interest for KImble. I think they realized the true romance was between KImble and Gerard. That final line ranks up there with _Casablanca_ in terms of being memorable.

This movie keeps you on edge the whole time. Another on edge movie is Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone.

This was actually nominated for Best Picture.

As I always add...the one-armed man was played by the actor Andreas Katsulas (RIP) who played G'Kar in the series Babylon 5.

React to "Witness" (1985) with Harrison Ford.

He ditched it because he's not a murderer, he doesn't need the gun.

What I call the Tommy Lee Jones chase collection: The Fugitive-Harrison Ford. U.S.Marshall’s-Wesley Snipes. Double Jeopardy- Ashley Judd. The Hunted- Benicio Del Toro. The Missing- Eric Sweig. Have a great weekend Madison

he was a great old ex texas ranger in Lonesome Dove too

I have become quite a fan of yours, and I enjoyed this reaction too. I don’t know if you could do it as a reaction, but given your love of Westerns and fondness for Tommy Lee Jones, you may want to check into Lonesome Dove. Jones played one of the leads, along with the great Robert Duvall, in the multi-episode mini-series written by (or based on a story by, not sure) Larry McMurtry. It’s an excellent program, centered on a cattle drive from Texas to Montana and the complications that arise from that. It’s really well done. Peace from Ohio …

Madison your right Tommy plays an excellent hard scrabble law enforcer which is kind of unique considering he's, a Harvard graduate and actually played football for them. He was a member of the team that beat Yale 29-29 a famous game that there's a 2008 movie about.

MADISON I COULDN'T HELP BUT NOTICE THE T-SHIRT THAT YOU'RE WEARING IN THIS VIDEO HAVE YOU BEEN TO FREDERICKSBURG TEXAS?? MY MOTHER WAS BORN NOT TOO FAR FROM THERE IN MASON TEXAS AND I USED TO SPEND ONE MONTH EVERY SUMMER EACH YEAR THROUGHOUT MY CHILDHOOD UNTIL MY LATE TEENAGE YEARS IN THAT AREA!!! IT WAS MY FIRST EVER EXPERIENCE WITH TEXAS BARBECUE BRISKET AND ALSO THE DRY SUMMER SAUSAGE THAT THEY SELL RIGHT THERE IN FREDERICKSBURG!!

Based on the old '60s TV show of the same name, which itself was loosely based on the famous Sam Shepard murder trial of the '50s. The TV show was very popular for some odd reason because every week it had the same synopsis: Richard Kimble in pursuit of the one armed man almost catches him thie tim but he slips through his fingers once again at the end. And all the while detective Girard almost catches the fugitive but he slips though his fingers once again at the end. The show does have the distinction of being the first to have an actual ending, though. And tens of millions tuned in, myself included, to see Richard Kimble finally catch the one-armed man. I believe it had the record for the most watched show for a coule of decades. And I think it was the final episode of MASH that finally beat it. Recommendation for a somewhat quirky and little known but good and ruthlessly realistic western directed & starring Tommy Lee Jones: THE HOMESMAN. (also starring, Hillary Swank, John Lithgow, James Spader, Tim Blake Nelson, Jesse Plemons and Meryl Streep.

👍This movie is a must see 90's classic. Madison did you recognize one of the FBI agents aka the traitor Cypher from the Matrix? actor Joe Pantoliano

When you said that is some green water. When filming the movie they asked Chicago if they can do a parade scene. Chicago said no to the idea. When filming they did a St.Patrick’s day parade filming. They got that shot for free. So when Harrison Ford was in the parade he jumped to do the scene. Great way of doing a film scene for free lol

More Harrison Ford please.🙂 Would love your reaction to Witness (1985), The Mosquito Coast (1986) and Frantic (1988). Thank you 😊

*1.* Did you catch Cipher from The Matrix? He had a little more hair back then. *2.* The "Harrison!" callout was just too dang cute. *3.* Banger. Again. Naturally.

You would also love Enemy of the State starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman.

I guess most Younger Folks, I'm 70, don't know this was based on a wildly popular TV Show, which in turn was based on a Real murder case involving a Doctor and a one-armed Killer.

The sequel to this "U.S Marshal's" is really good also

"Things have escalated." Actually, looks a like a rapid de-escalation.

This is one of the best suspense/crime/thriller movies ever and I've never seen a movie with Harrison Ford that I didn't like, but my favorite has gotta be Air Force One.

"What color were his eyes?" Hell, I could know someone for 10 years and not be able to answer that question about them.

I like your shirt, I live in Austin, not too far from Fredericksburg. One of my all time favorite movies. Great reaction :)

If you want to see some of the movies that inspired "Star Wars", try: "The Hidden Fortress" (1958) by Akira Kurosawa. George Lucas said in an interview that the original "Star Wars" is based on this film. "John Carter" This is a 2012 movie based on a series of books written by Edger Rice Burroughs starting in 1912. Anything that reminds you of scenes from Star Wars (or Superman, or any other sci-fi), just remember that John Carter was written in 1912. The Mandalorian S1, Ep 4 was based on Akira Kurosawa's 1954 "Seven Samurai" and its American western remake "The Magnificent Seven" (1960).

Tommy Lee Jones reprises this character role in the film, "US Marshal." It also stars Wesley Snipes and Robert Downey Jr. Harrison Ford was great in, "Witness." ✌️❤️🌹

One of my favorite Harrison Ford movies along with Air Force One. Just a classic and no matter where it's at in the movie if it's on tv I'll watch it.

Another good Tommy L J film is the Client 1994 where a young boy & his brother witness a mob killing also starring Susan Sarandon who plays a smart Laser.

Thank you Madison for your very good evaluation of Sam Gerard after your reaction!

Nice reaction and analysis 🎉🎉🎉

This movie has outstanding leads. Tommy Lee is a great antagonist (but not villain) and the pacing is absolutely perfect.

This, your reaction and commentary, 👏👏 :)) 👏👏 :D so good; straight loved this time with you. Cheers!

There is a recap of the fugitive, called U.S. Marshals, about the Team from Chicago.

IMO Ford's last great film & iconic role and a dynamite justifiable Oscar winning turn by Jones. The '60s TV series' final episode where Kimble takes on the One-Armed Man was the highest watched TV show for years and pretty much inspired the TV version of THE INCREDIBLE HULK w/Bill Bixby & Lou Ferrigno; great job Mads :D

Love your Fredericksburg Tx, shirt...Great little town! Check out L. A. Confidential.

Tommy Lee Jones won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as Girard..and his character is in the sequel to The Fugitive.. U.S. Marshalls. With Costar Wesley Snipes and the wrongfully accused man.

The scene where the woman offers Harrison Ford a ride is a reference to the first episode of the 1960s TV series that the movie was based on. Even in 1993 that scene seemed dated. By then nobody would offer a ride to a stranger but I guess they would have in 1963.

This movie is based on a tv series back in the 60's! There is a part 2, with wesley snipes being chased by Tommy Lee Jones!

Your Carbonite comment took me a second. I thought, "Carbonite? What..... Oh." That was good. I do like your channel.

Loved the reaction, but, I think it's funny that the tree painting in the back looks like a green hair bun.

Tommy Lee Jones is great in Double Jeopardy and the sequel to this called US Marshalls

Awesome Movie and Work Lady,Thanks ❤️❤️ Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸

He doesn't care because He's a US Marshall NOT a Detective...his Job is to Catch Criminals NOT Solve crimes...But it's Funny he kinda became a Detective as the movie went on 😂

Every reactor loves his friend at the beginning. For some reason I suspected him from the start when I first watched it.

Excellent reaction and review!

I've never seen anyone with perfectly groomed hair like the man playing Dr Nichols not a hair out of place until the fight

New sub... love your reacts so far. Great revenge movie for you is Count of Monte Cristo.

Great review, US Marshals is another good one with Tommy Lee Jones and his crew also starring Wesley Snipes and Robert Downey Jr.

Not sure if you are aware, but Chicago dyes the water green for St Patrick's day.

I gave 3 "tidbits". My lazy proofreading usually results in at least ONE edit re-send, 😣🤣. First step in solving any problem is KNOWING there's a problem, yes? I watched G.I. Joe cartoons growing up. "Knowing is half the battle!". Actually, it's 1/3, with Surviving and Learning from, the other 2/3.

Try Miami Vice (the film) is a masterpiece of a police drama! Love, danger, violence, sentiments in a nightlife atmosphere.

That time Jeroen Krabbé was a hot commodity in Hollywood... blink and you missed it...

Dude the fugitive is hella cool

Madison, check out the original television series from the 1960s. Great stuff. I think RU-vid has all the episodes.

Is that Fredericksburg, Tx? Hello from Fredericksburg, Va! 😁

You like classic revenge ---- Try "Sleepers", Brad Pitt as a prosecutor swimming both ends of the pool.... Others in the cast are Robert de Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Minnie Driver, Kevin Bacon.

You look a lot like Richard Kimble's wife. 🙂 You might also enjoy Under Siege. Lot of the same actors, director and even the music and graphics are similar. It's sort of a Diehard on the Sea.

Yeah. Great acting performances and an amazing movie.

Tommy Lee Jones had so many good lines in this

I know lots of people who have trouble in life because of the one-armed bandit.

What Lies Beneath might be a fun one to do in October, also with Harrison Ford.

Thank you for your pleasant and NOT obnoxious reaction! 😊

Great reaction, Madison - always enjoy your insights. If you liked TLJ in this, you should check out the sequel US Marshalls.

Madison there is a sequel to this film called 'US Marshalls'. Its not quite as good as this film but its well worth a watch and Tommy Lee Jones is in it too and on top form.

Since you related the jump scene to Star Wars, let's also not leave out that Han Solo is the one who jumped