The Guardian

With its shopworn premise and cast of overly familiar characters, FUGITIVE director Andrew Davis' action tribute to the unsung heroes of the elite U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers — who pluck drowning men and women out of the sea, often at great risk to their own lives — is a predictable amalgam of every military-academy movie you can think of. Suffering post-traumatic stress after a dangerous Bering Sea rescue ends in a fiery helicopter crash and the death of his entire crew, highly decorated senior chief Ben Randall (Kevin Costner) is transferred away from the Coast Guard Air Station in Kodiak, Alaska. His new home is the USCG Aviation Survival Training Center, whe...