You get a feeling for the man when he confronts Kimble in a huge drain pipe and Kimble professes his innocence. And when he blows away a bad guy who had been holding a gun to another marshal's head, he's told it would have been a better idea to bargain. The other star of the film, which is becoming the case more and more in movies today, is the special effects crew. It is spectacular. No models used here.
Metal meets metal and the bus loses badly.
Then there's a plunge Kimble takes that would give vertigo to an Acapulco cliff diver. Exposure to the TV show upon which the film is based isn't necessary to appreciate the movie, which opens today, Friday, Aug. 6. Devotees can play the compare and contrast game. The basics are kept intact. While he tries to avoid the law, he looks for the one- armed man who actually committed the crime.