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02/26/06
Running Scared (2006)
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Reviews Counted:126
Fresh:50
Rotten:76
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: This film runs with frenetic energy punctuated by gratuitous violence but sorely lacks in plot, character development and stylistic flair.
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Not the 1986 Billy Crystal-Gregory Himes buddy cop movie of the same name, 2006's RUNNING SCARED is writer/director Wayne Kramer's (THE COOLER) take on the violent gangster crime genre. Paul Walker... [More]
Starring: Chazz Palminteri, Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Ivana Milicevic
Director: Wayne Kramer
Reviews for Running Scared
The action movie is the cheese sandwich of film genres, but efforts like 'Running Scared' remind us all too rarely that they don't have to be Kraft Singles on Wonder Bread.
02/25/06
A film with ADD.
02/25/06
an over-the-top thrill ride that seems to have been cobbled from the stylistic excesses of Guy Ritchie, the flip violence of Tarantino and the story outline of Scorcese's After Hours
02/25/06
Hello, cheesy fun! [It's] a roller coaster of a thrill ride.
02/25/06
More like 'Running with Scissors.' A terrible, awful, hilarious misfire. Folks, a new camp classic is born.
02/25/06
This film is so over the top at times that it takes one's breath away.
02/25/06
Running Scared keeps ratcheting up the intensity, but to what end?
02/24/06
Ethnic stereotyping, moral qualms and plot improbabilities aside, you just wish a movie like Running Scared wasn't so anxious to be exciting all the time: It gets so monotonous.
02/24/06
The only things more abundant than gunshot-riddled corpses are the ridiculous plot twists and the laughably bad lines of dialog...it's likely to be the most fun at a bad movie you'll have for a while.
02/24/06
The clunky happily-ever-after ending is a bit too nicey-nice but with all of the wall-to-wall action, ultra-violent gunplay and over-the-top writing it is an amusing ride.
02/24/06
May be the first original screenplay that unfolds in a setting so grim, despairing and yet slightly hallucinatory that it could’ve been adapted from Grand Theft Auto.
02/24/06
There's clearly supposed to be tension between Joey's good and bad sides. Sure, he's a mobster, but he's also a family man, which makes him... gray. (Not black and white = very sophisticated.)
02/24/06
[Director Wayne] Kramer, who showed such promise as a filmmaker with The Cooler, takes a couple of giant steps backward with Running Scared.
02/24/06
In the opening minutes of Running Scared, a drug deal goes bad and takes the entire movie with it.
02/24/06
It's way too violent and perversely excessive for many tastes, but there's more to its outrages than meets the eye, and that second look is well worth taking.
02/24/06
[It's] generic pulp with some serious plot holes and more crane shots than any film needs.
02/24/06
There is a child at the center of this ultraviolent story, and the devices used to keep us on tenterhooks regarding his survival are appallingly manipulative.
02/24/06
A ferociously energetic piece of filmmaking, Running Scared makes the seedy Vegas milieu of writer-director Wayne KramerWayne Kramer's first feature, The Cooler, look as tasteful as The Sound of Music.
02/24/06
Top CriticRunning Scared is for people who like movies, who don't need to have a movie mean something in order to enjoy it and who can delight at the sheer craft of a story designed only to shock, amuse and hold an audience.
02/24/06
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