Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Great Film overall

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

As I have already said before, this tremendous TV show that I did not really know and which I just discover - although I had already heard about it - looks on many points like ROUTE 66 series, a not less interesting and nationwide known all over the US. And not only. I watched the entire ROUTE 66 TV show three years ago and I find many similarities with this one. The main difference is of course that FUGITIVE is more thriller oriented than drama. ROUTE 66 was a deep and so accurate analysis of the sixties United States, including the deep America. It explained very well racism, social problems, or the pre Vietnam war of this period, it showed many aspects which were not evoked in most other TV shows made to entertain audiences and help them to forget their daily problems. Performances in ROUTE 66 were mostly awesome, terrific, poignant, but it remained mostly dramas, with sometimes some action and/or film noir accents, I admit. THE FUGITIVE is mainly thriller, with a man accused of a crime he did not commit - cliché among cliché - but that's not the point. The overall scheme, of a character - or two, concerning ROUTE 66 - walking, riding through the United States and encountering so different folks, is also an analysis of the American society. And also, in the FUGITIVE, you have outstanding performances pulled by many guests stars - remember Buster Keaton and future great stars such as James Caan, Bob Redford and many others in ROUTE 66 - but with the suspense element in addition. The master key in THE FUGITIVE is that the hero is on the run, a fugitive, and in each episode, the audience wonders HOW the different people this hero encounters, how those people will react when, or may I say, IF they finally know the truth about the hero - Dr Kimble. Or if they will actually know about it. That's the main most important thing that matters. That's my own opinion. Now, only an idiot would wonder if yes or no the hero will eventually be found innocent. Of course he will, who cares? The most important thing, I repeat again and again, is the overall performances such as in FATSO episode, and this suspense about the characters behaviour around Dr Kimble. It also looks like, I mean the scheme of a lonely man always trying to do something against each other, with each episode finishing in an open end, with the audiences wondering if yes or no the hero will succeed in his task, it looks like the INVADERS series. Also produced by Quinn Martin. That's it.

As I watched this classic series recently, I found myself visiting the Internet Movie Database site frequently. Bruce Dern plays five different roles over the course of the show's four year run. Louise Latham and Diane Baker, two of Dern's co-stars from Hitchcock's film Marnie show up in the series finale. Robert Duvall appears in three episodes playing two unique characters, elevating both otherwise formulaic stories. Dozens of performers return to play new characters throughout the series run (not that unusual for a TV series of this vintage). Watched over the course of four years, viewers might not have noticed the returning actors. Modern binge viewers can check on Internet Movie Database to see how many times Telly Savalas, Shirley Knight, Michael Constantine and Sue Randall will appear (three). Look for Kurt Russell (as Philip Gerard Jr!) early in Season Two, as well as fellow kid stars Bill Mumy and brothers Clint and Ron Howard. A random episode cast: Pat Hingle, Dabney Coleman, Mary Murphy, Tom Skerritt, Dabs Greer, Burt Mustin. In most cases, if they are still alive, they are still working. Each of the four seasons has thirty episodes, with David Janssen on screen as Dr. Richard Kimble (The Fugitive) for most of the hour, often looking appropriately stressed or exhausted, a believable performance perhaps made easier by a frantic work schedule. Barry Morse as Lt. Philip Gerard, Kimble's nemesis, does not appear in every episode. Instead he pops up just enough to keep the main storyline of pursuit going. Series villain Bill Raisch as Fred Johnson (The One-Armed Man) is featured in just ten episodes, and is still (deservedly) ranked as one of TVs all-time greatest villains. Yes, some of the episodes are exceptionally good, others not quite so much, but every episode is watchable, even if you are just admiring the quality of the acting, or simply anxious to get to the end of the series. And the series finale is what sets the entire show apart from so many genre TV shows. The basic premise of the series can be summed up in a few questions. Those questions are answered in the two hour series finale, after a few twists and surprises, with a very satisfying conclusion. What are the cliffhanger resolutions for Flash Forward, Carnivale, Twin Peaks (okay, a great final episode, but it ends with multiple cliffhangers), X-Files, Invasion, Lost In Space, Land of the Giants, Vanished, The Dead Zone, Deception, Kyle XY, Stargate Universe, Alcatraz, Sliders, Las Vegas, The Border, Endgame (and dozens of other past, present and future TV shows)? Fifty years after The Fugitive's first broadcast, the entire series is still worth watching from the intriguing beginning, through an occasionally suspenseful middle, to the rewarding payoff at the end.

My dad introduced me to when it first came out, must have been around 16 or 17 at the time. Now 21, yet I still can get enough. Absolutely love the show. Every episode just has some kind of thrilling twist. Show isn't about highly cost cameras that can do just about anything these, this is old school. Yet how in depth they get with each character, and certain camera angles really puts this show way past its time. Sad they didn't run the show longer, but there are plenty of episodes and think they did a great job on how they ended it. For anyone looking for good ol' black and white shows, The Fugitive is a must for checking out.

This series did not last as long a others Martin produced, but this one set the standard. It is a dramatic standard he would never reach again in any other series. The stories while always the same in formula (Kimble being chased by Gerard), always had good drama surrounding the chase.The best thing is that they chose to do a finale before it was too late. MAD Magazine was already doing satires about the shows formula before it went off. The formula was rather limiting, but the writers always seemed to find a way to introduce drama.Part of the reason this show was so popular was that it was reality based, more reality based than Survivor. There actually was a real Doctor who was falsely accused of his wife's murder which the show was loosely based upon. This stimulated the original interest in the series. It kept it going for 4 years & they did one of the first of the great series finales.David Jansen really did a lot of terrific acting in this show. It landed him another series after this went off- but this show was by far his best work. It is hard to imagine anyone else playing this role so well for so long. Even Harrison Ford who did it in the movies, could only do a little over 2 hours. Lt. Gerard was played very well too. He would go on to do some shows on Martin's The FBI.This show was excellent in drawing drama out & putting a lot of raw emotions into the forefront. It is a classic.