U.S. Marshals

Pedestrian, but competent, sequel to The Fugitive

Released in 1998, U.S. Marshals is the sequel to the 1993 hit The Fugitive. Tommy Lee Jones returns as Federal Marshal Samuel Gerard. He & his team hunt down an escaped prisoner named Sheridan (Wesley Snipes) from wilderness regions to the streets of New York City. Robert Downey Jr. is on hand as a Defense Security Service agent who assists the marshals.

This sequel makes you realize just how well-done The Fugitive is. It features the same basic plot, but without most of the magic. The first act with the plane crash & swamp sequence is decent but it doesnt hold a candle to bus crash/train wreck & dam sequence of the prior flick. Snipes is effective, but his character doesnt evoke...

Hot on the heels of Con Air (1997) this time its Tommy Lee Jones who finds himself in charge of flying a load of dangerous villains. His Sam is charged with transporting Sheridan (Wesley Snipes), but when a bit of onboard fisticuffs results in a forced landing, his charge behaves in an altogether different fashion to that expected before skedaddling. Hot on his heels, our intrepid deputy marshal soon begins to suspect what we have already clocked - that something about this whole thing smells and that perhaps the fleeing felon isnt exactly the criminal everyone assumed he was. With their cat and mouse game gathering pace amidst some pretty dense woodland, Sam realises strings are being pulled and trust soon becomes at a premium, especially ...