YMMV / U.S. Marshals

• Anti-Climax Boss: Royce. Unlike with Nichols in the previous movie, Gerard simply puts him down in one shot, no fight scene. That's it.
• Complete Monster: John Royce is a corrupt agent of the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) who uses his position to sell valuable American military secrets to China. When his superiors began to suspect his criminal actions, Royce tricked fellow agent Mark Sheridan into murdering two innocent DSS agents and framed him as the mole. Royce smuggles a gun onto the prison transport plane that Sheridan is aboard to kill him, and when the gun misfires and causes the plane to crash—killing 8 men and threatening dozens of lives—Royce's only concern is that Sheridan didn't die in the crash. After having his Chinese liaison Chen murder multiple contacts and allies to tie up all loose ends, Royce tries to execute Sheridan, heartlessly gunning down Deputy US Marshal Noah Newman for witnessing it and nearly doing the same to Sam Gerard.
• Cult Classic: While not as beloved as its predecessor, the film's managed a lot of respect and admiration beyond just being seen as better than expected—to the point that when it shows up on streaming services, a lot of people even today still put it on and watch it.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The choice of Jerry Goldsmith to score the film when you realise that a lot of his CBS music was used in The Fugitive (the original series).
  • A guy in a police raid dressed in a chicken suit? This kind of thing happens in real life.
• Magnificent Bastard: Mark Sheridan is a DSS agent specializing in Black Ops off-the-books missions and dead drops who ends up killing two fellow agents not realizing they were sent after him because he was framed as a Chinese spy by Agents John Royce and Frank Barrows. Sheridan gets a new identity, only to be caught due to an accident and while trying to unlock himself from the prison plane he's in, Sheridan subtly catches onto and overpowers an assassin set to kill him and then helps Deputy Marshal Sam Gerard save passengers from the plane wreckage before then slipping away. Sheridan threatens, fights and injuries Gerard and others in his pursuit of exposing and tracking the real culprits and then hopes to slip away with his girlfriend Marie Bineaux when things get too hot—at one point swinging off a building and onto a train. With Barrows killed in another attempt on his life, Sheridan gives Gerard a warning so he's able to kill Royce and Sheridan is exonerated and free to be happy with Marie.
• Retroactive Recognition: Marc Vann (best known as Conrad Ecklie on CSI) has a minor role as a mall security guard.
• Sequelitis: While not a true sequel to The Fugitive, it was less enthusiastically received by critics and audiences than its predecessor.
• Vindicated by History: While the movie in the past was very unfavorably compared to the previous film, its garnered appreciation since then for being a variation trying to definitely be something different while also being said to actually be a pretty good film that stands in its own right too.