U.S. Marshals (1998)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Stuart Baird

Writers (WGA):

Roy Huggins (characters)
John Pogue (written by)

Release Date:

6 March 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Tagline:

The cop who won't stop is back. But this time he's chasing down a lot more than a fugitive.

Plot:

US Marshal Samuel Gerard (Jones) and his team of Marshals are assigned to track down Sheridan (Snipes), a murderer and robber.

Plot Keywords:

Escape | Prison | Fugitive | Police | Accident

Awards:

1 nomination

US TV Schedule:

Fri. Nov. 20	11:30 PM	TNT
Sat. Nov. 21	5:30 PM	TNT

Cast

Tommy Lee Jones	...	Chief Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard
Wesley Snipes	...	Mark J. Sheridan / Warren / Roberts
Robert Downey Jr.	...	Special Agent John Royce
Joe Pantoliano	...	Deputy Marshal Cosmo Renfro
Daniel Roebuck	...	Deputy Marshal Bobby Biggs
Tom Wood	...	Deputy Marshal Noah Newman
LaTanya Richardson	...	Deputy Marshal Savannah Cooper
Irène Jacob	...	Marie Bineaux, Mark's Girlfriend
Kate Nelligan	...	United States Marshal Catherine Walsh
Patrick Malahide	...	Bertram Lamb, Security Service Director
Rick Snyder	...	Special Agent Frank Barrows
Michael Paul Chan	...	Xian Chen, U.N. Cultural Attache of China
Johnny Lee Davenport	...	Deputy Marshal Henry
Donald Li	...	Detective Kim
Marc Vann	...	Deputy Jackson

Also Known As:

The Fugitive Part II (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some scenes of violence and brief language.

Runtime:

131 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #35906) | Iceland:14 (original rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Philippines:PG-13 | New Zealand:M | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Belgium:KT | Canada:14A | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Germany:12 (bw) | Mexico:B | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | South Korea:15

Filming Locations:

444 N. Michigan Avenue, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

For shooting the scenes on the plane, director Stuart Baird and production designer Maher Ahmad looked at real prisoner transfer planes but were disappointed to find that they looked just like regular planes. As such, they came up with the design of the plane seen in the film - the feet restraints, the cage door, the mechanical locking system, the open toilet etc.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: After the chase in the cemetery in Queens, New York, Sheridan jumps the wall and crosses the train tracks. A train arrives, but it is a METRA train, coming from suburban Chicago.

Quotes:

[while pulling a concealed gun from his suit]
John Royce: I guess you'll just have to slap the cuffs on me, and take me in...

Movie Connections:

References Pulp Fiction (1994)

Soundtrack:

BROTHER

Borderline Good

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. He's not a surgeon, but a deep undercover spy, the victim of a frame-up of an undisclosed nature. A catastrophic accident frees him (this time a plane crash) and again Tommy Lee Jones is sent to hunt him down. Big-budget, good special effects, A-list actors doing their jobs well; still U.S. Marshals fails to make a big impact. The first quarter starts out great, but by the end of the movie the plot devices are becoming very routine. Not a rip-off, but only C+ to me.