Dagmar Heideman

Not even leaning on the past successes of the original series and the 1993 film adaptation along with a shameless attempt to pander to 24 fans with the casting of Kiefer Sutherland as the head of the CTU can save this hot mess of an hour long short movie chopped up into short ~8 minute episodes. This movie is reboot by name only and bears little to no similarity to its predecessors. The characters are different and also predictably shallow given how short and fast paced the movie is. The poor writing only exacerbates the problem. (Warning: some minor spoilers ahead - but given you may rightfully decide to forgo watching the movie it may not really matter) I'm not sure what was going on with Kiefer Sutherland's character, with a rather ridiculous name of Clayton Bryce (sounds like a name someone might pick for their GTA V online RPG character) who is supposed to be a NYC law enforcement officer moved to LA yet somehow drifts in and out of a southern accent. It makes the speech of the title character, with an equally ridiculous name of Michelangelo Ferro (sounding like something one might order as a side dish at one's local organic eatery) devoid of any southern accent even though played by Boyd Holbrook, a native Kentuckian, somewhat ironic. We're supposed to believe, based on Bryce's shallow backstory, that his bias makes him so inept that he creates dots and makes hysterical connections with them that simply aren't there all in an effort to come to the incompetence driven conclusion that Ferro is responsible for a bomb going off on a train (rather than the murder of the title character's wife in the prior versions of the Fugitive). Sorry, it's not believable and not even the acting chops of Sutherland can save the badly written character. Then there is junior reporter (played by Tiya Sicar, from The Good Place and Star Wars: Rebels - which is what drew me to the movie - I'll probably forgive her for that... one day) for a journalistic rag (think Daily Beast or worse) taking the same "evidence" and running with it without editorial approval in a tweet. That part is totally believable given what poses as journalism on some media sites. What is far less believable is that all the major news media sites run with it (as if they learned literally nothing from the Gabby Gifford debacle that disgraced them all) so that Farro's face get's plastered all over the news prompting all law enforcement to go after him. (Because that's how it works in real life, the media is in charge of assigning criminal investigations and manhunts to law enforcement - right?) Honestly, the only reason I ended up watching the whole thing was because (1) I kept hoping that something would justify why so many well known and talented actors would tie themselves to this hot mess (didn't happen an (2) it was a very short movie which influenced my decision regarding (1). It all concludes in a very predictable ending. I hope this review spares others from making the same mistake, especially given that it is tied to so many commercial breaks due to the tedious format in which it was published and segmented by Quibi and remains that way with its successor Roku.