This was actually the one movie in my entire backlog that I was least looking forward to watching. Call it a bias against 1993 or something. But man, was I wrong to doubt Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. In this action classic that was part First Blood, part Shawshank Redemption, and part No Country For Old Men, Ford plays a wrongly-convicted man on the run who is trying not only to elude capture by U.S. Marshal Tommy Lee, but also trying to track down his wife's true killer. Though the plot became a little too random and unrealistic at points (once the man behind the murder plot is revealed, you start to question a few of his actions from earlier in the film), the action was pretty top-notch for 1993. And it wasn't all about the action, either; this movie did a pretty decent job at unraveling a mystery and developing some characters along the way. I can't call it amazing or a must-see, but if you catch it on cable or something, give it a shot. Especially the first half, which is more "man on the run" than "tracking down the true killer." Got it? Good.
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