Show Mark is then placed on a prisoner transport aircraft with U.S. Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones). During the flight a Chinese prisoner uses an improvised weapon to attack Roberts/Warren but he misses and blows out a window in the plane, thus depressurizing it. The plane wrecks in the Ohio river in Southern Illinois. While Gerard tries to save the surviving passengers on the plane, Warren escapes. Later we find everyone in New York City. Roberts is trying to figure out who framed him for being a “mole”. Turns out that he is a former C.I.A. operative that supposedly went “rogue” during a botched deal. Gerard and the others have found evidence that is pointing to his innocence and that he had acted in self-defense during the shootings. Action and drama continue to heat up throughout the movie as the Chinese, C.I.A., and the “mole,” who set him up, are all after him. CRITIQUE: Although not directly a sequel per se to The Fugitive, this was a different story with the same main characters, the U.S. Marshals that teamed up with Gerard in The Fugitive. I enjoyed this movie but it wasn’t as easy for me to follow and become as involved with the character Roberts as I had with (Harrison Ford) Dr. Richard Kimble in the first movie. First of all, Snipes’ character, though innocent, was a trained killer and was smoother than Harrison Ford’s character at running/escaping. This had additional drama to the first movie. Dr. Kimble, though smart, seemed just more panicking while trying to survive. I just found myself getting behind Ford’s character. Being in the moment, accused of his wife’s death also added more of an emotional element, I felt. I enjoyed the storyline better. Tommy Lee Jones played his character well but just not as intense as he was in the first movie. Snipes was good but I just saw him more as an action figure that was used to being pursued. Also, the plane transport scene reminded me so much of the bus scene in the first movie that it didn’t seem very “original.” Directed by Stuart Baird
U.S. Marshals (United States, 1998)To me, the idea of a sequel to The Fugitive always seemed like a bad idea. True, Sam Girard (Tommy Lee Jones) was a more interesting character than Richard Kimball (Harrison Ford), but could he carry a movie on his own? Sadly, we'll never really know, because the Girard of U.S. Marshals bears only a token resemblance to the character who doggedly pursued Kimball in The Fugitive. As re-invented here, Girard is a generic action hero; most of the quirks that made him interesting (and that earned Jones an Oscar) are absent. With a few minor re-writes, John McClane from the Die Hard movies could have been plugged into this role. The script tries to recapture the energy of The Fugitive by re-cycling various plot elements. As in the original, Girard is pursuing an innocent man, and he suspects that there's more to the case than meets the eye. There's a big accident that allows the prisoner to go free (this time, it involves a plane and the side of a mountain, not a bus and a train), a subsequent manhunt, and several lengthy chase sequences. For a little variety, the conspiracy in U.S. Marshals implicates officials of the U.S. government, not a one-armed man and doctors. This time around, the wrongly-accused man is a suspected murderer named Sheridan (Wesley Snipes). Supposedly, he killed two federal agents, but someone wants him dead before his case ends up in court. A murder attempt on the airplane transporting him to prison goes wrong, and the plane crash lands. During the ensuing confusion, Sheridan gets away. Soon, U.S. Marshal Sam Girard and his faithful team are on the job, setting up roadblocks and closing off the perimeter. The Feds, wanting to be kept informed of the manhunt's progress, force Girard to add another member to his team -- slick, self-confident John Royce (Robert Downey Jr.). And the chase is on. Unfortunately, it's not just one chase -- it's one after another after another. The repetitiveness quickly grows tiresome, and the movie ends up lasting at least thirty minutes too long. The bloated running length has nothing to do with extra time needed to unravel the needlessly convoluted plot. It simply offers an opportunity for the characters to do a lot more running around before the final, inevitable confrontation between Girard, Sheridan, and a traitor (whose identity, despite being easy to guess, shall remain unrevealed here). Tommy Lee Jones, who turned in a delicious performance as Girard in The Fugitive, is (like the screenplay) on auto-pilot here. He's a 52 year old action hero who runs, climbs, shoots, and swims, all without getting a hair out of place. Snipes' Sheridan appears to have undergone a personality extraction -- there's nothing deeper than the bare-bones "innocent guy on the run." Most of the supporting characters are equally faceless, with the exception of Joe Pantoliano's Cosmo, who acts like he drinks too much coffee. Swiss actress Irene Jacob, the dark-haired beauty from Kieslowski's Red, represents the classic case of talent being wasted. She plays Sheridan's girlfriend. While I enjoyed The Fugitive, I wasn't the film's biggest booster. I thought the coincidence-laden plot was poorly constructed. But the action sequences were often nail-biters, the lead characters were well-developed, and the dialogue was intelligent. U.S. Marshals exhibits many of The Fugitive's faults with few of its strengths. As a result, this movie is a routine exercise in stunt choreography, with more valleys than peaks, and not enough tension to keep the viewer engaged for the full 143-minute length. U.S. Marshals is workmanlike, and that makes it, at best, a marginal choice for theatrical viewing. U.S. Marshals (United States, 1998)What movie did Tommy Lee Jones play in with Wesley Snipes?U.S. Marshals (film). Is the movie U.S. Marshals a sequel to The Fugitive?U.S. Marshals is the sequel to The Fugitive, but feels more like a remake. Again a victim of injustice is improperly imprisoned, this time Wesley Snipes in the Harrison Ford role.
Where was the swamp scene in U.S. Marshals filmed?The swamp scenes were shot on Reelfoot Lake in northwest Tennessee, in the same location as was used for Raintree County (1957) and In the Heat of the Night (1967).
What is the plot of the movie U.S. Marshals?An airplane bearing gruff U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) crashes in the wilderness. On board the same flight is Mark Sheridan (Wesley Snipes), a federal prisoner accused of double murder, who escapes during the ensuing chaos, but not before rescuing several people from the wreckage. Gerard is ordered to hunt down the fugitive along with State Department agent John Royce (Robert Downey Jr.), and the two pursue Sheridan relentlessly, despite growing doubts about his guilt.U.S. Marshals / Film synopsisnull
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