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''U.S. Marshals'' is a 1998 American thriller film directed by Stuart Baird. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Roy Huggins and John Pogue. The film is a sequel to the 1993 motion picture ''The Fugitive'', which in turn was based on the 1960s television series of the same name, created by Huggins. The story does not involve the character of Dr. Richard Kimble portrayed by Harrison Ford in the initial film. Instead, an altered plot centers on another fugitive, Mark Warren (played by Wesley Snipes) who attempts to elude government officials following an international conspiracy scandal. Several of the main cast from the previous film who portrayed Deputy Marshals, reprise their roles in the sequel. The ensemble cast features Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Downey, Jr., Joe Pantoliano, Daniel Roebuck, Tom Wood and LaTanya Richardson. The film was a co-production between the motion picture studios of Warner Bros. and Kopelson Entertainment. Theatrically, it was commercially distributed by Warner Bros. and by the Warner Home Video division for home media markets. ''U.S. Marshals'' explores violence, murder, and espionage. On March 10, 1998, the original motion picture soundtrack was released by the Varèse Sarabande music label. The soundtrack was composed and orchestrated by musician Jerry Goldsmith. ''U.S. Marshals'' premiered in theaters nationwide in the United States on March 6, 1998 grossing $57 million in its domestic run. The film took in an additional $45 million in business through international release for a combined worldwide total of $102 million. Preceding its initial screening in cinemas, the film was generally met with mixed critical reviews. With its initial foray into the home video marketplace; the film's widescreen DVD edition, featuring theatrical trailers, an interactive behind-the-scenes documentary and production notes among other highlights, was released in the U.S. on July 22, 1998. ==Plot== Two Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agents are killed while trying to intercept a briefcase exchange taking place in a parking garage. The murders are caught on a CCTV camera, but the criminal escapes with top secret information. Months later, tow truck driver Mark Warren (Snipes) is arrested for an illegal weapons possession charge following a vehicular collision in Chicago. Through a fingerprint check, the police determine that he is actually federal fugitive Mark Roberts, wanted for a homicide. Roberts boards a prisoner transport aircraft back to New York, sharing the flight with Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard (Jones), who is escorting prisoners unrelated to Roberts' case. Roberts thwarts an assassination attempt by a Chinese prisoner with an improvised firearm, but the bullet pierces a window and depressurizes the cabin, forcing an emergency landing which leads to a crash in Kentucky. Gerard discovers Roberts has fled the crash site. DSS Special Agent John Royce (Downey Jr.) is assigned to join Gerard's team to hunt Roberts. Roberts flees to New York City. There, he secures money, weapons and fake identification. Roberts also begins conducting surveillance on a Chinese diplomat named Xiang Chen (Chan). In Chicago, Gerard and the Marshals pursue several leads, including Roberts' girlfriend Marie Bineaux (Jacob) as well as the airplane mechanic who hid the zip gun, whom the Marshals find murdered by Chen. Gerard and his colleagues watch the surveillance footage of the murders in the parking garage and realize that Roberts acted in self-defense and was wearing gloves; thus couldn't have been identified by fingerprints at the scene as was earlier claimed. Confronted with the evidence, DSS Director Bertram Lamb (Malahide) informs Gerard that Mark Roberts is in fact Mark Sheridan, a trained operative that went rogue during an investigation to find a mole within the U.S. State Department that had been selling covert secrets to China. Chen was the contact delivering the money to Sheridan for the information and when DSS agents tried to apprehend him, Sheridan killed them in resistance and fled the scene. Eventually, Gerard and his partners catch up with Sheridan in a cemetery where he meets with, and threatens to expose, DSS Special Agent Frank Barrows (Snyder) as one of the conspirators who framed him. Chen tries to assassinate Sheridan as he leaves the cemetery, but inadvertently kills Barrows instead. Sheridan flees to a retirement home followed by Gerard, Royce and Deputy Marshal Noah Newman (Wood). Meanwhile, Chen is caught and detained by Deputy Marshals Savannah Cooper (Richardson) and Bob Biggs (Roebuck). At the senior care facility, Deputy Newman overhears a physical struggle and walks into a room where he witnesses Royce holding Sheridan at gunpoint. Royce suddenly shoots Newman with his gun and later lies to his associates, claiming Sheridan shot him. Sheridan escapes by jumping from the building onto the roof of a passing train. Newman dies of his gunshot wound. After retrieving fingerprints from an abandoned vehicle at a marine loading dock, Gerard tracks down Sheridan on a freighter bound for Canada. During a scuffle between Sheridan and Gerard aboard the vessel, Royce shoots Sheridan, injuring him. Sheridan is later taken into custody. Gerard begins to suspect Royce may be associated with the mole within the U.S. State Department when he notices a visual inconsistency with his firearm. Left alone to guard Sheridan's hospital room, Royce wakes Sheridan up, and attempts to murder him as Gerard steps in and kills Royce first. After leaving the hospital, Sheridan's charges are dropped as he is exonerated and released from custody. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「U.S. Marshals (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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