Running Scared is about as hard an "R" rating as you can get, with buckets of blood, full- frontal nudity and swearing that would peel gum from the sidewalk.
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02/24/06
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
Running Scared will be reviled by those who deplore violence and adored by those who like their movies brutally edgy.
02/24/06
Running Scared will probably play best in prisons, where lowlifes, applauding the heroic amounts of foul language and blood, will be heartened to know that society has finally stooped to their level.
02/24/06
A depressing piece of gun-crazy Hollywood scuzz that, with its gassy style and runaway immorality, makes a Tony Scott movie look like a Robert Bresson picture.
02/24/06
Too bloated with its own seriousness to achieve the 'so sick, it's funny' vibe of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
02/24/06
Includes scenes that are laughable [gunfight in a 10x10 room] and one that features Vera Farmiga that will go down in history as a classic/fan favorite.
02/24/06
For a picture so fetishistically obsessed with death, Running Scared is vibrantly alive.
02/24/06
Impossible to adequately summarize, alienating at every tonal turn, off the rails with every storytelling and aesthetic choice, Running Scared is ambitious to a fault.
02/24/06
Filmmaking for people who find the films of Guy Ritchie too understated and wish Natural Born Killers weren't so slow-paced and minimalist.
02/24/06
Running Scared is an overly ambitious guilty pleasure with enough action and violence to keep you interested, it just doesn't have much else.
02/24/06
This is a movie with yards and yards of plot, but none of it that makes much sense nor that you'll think about afterwards. Instead what you'll remember is the blood.
02/24/06
races along the thin line between tense thriller and overheated, campy exploitation flick.
02/24/06
Running Scared doesn't go over the top - it refuses to even acknowledge that there is a top.. it's like if Tarantino directed The Warriors
02/24/06
Tthe gimmicks can't hold up a weak, implausible plot that substitutes violence and gore for a smart story and believable characters.
02/23/06
If Quentin Tarantino and David Fincher shared a brain, developed a fever, then read 'Hansel and Gretel' and 'Oliver Twist' before falling asleep, they might dream of something like Running Scared.
02/23/06
I see Running Scared as a slick, sick, and sly satire of all the action flick conventions, but maybe I'm just nuts.
02/23/06
I wonder if Peter Hyams can sue these people.
02/23/06
Those of you hoping for a remake of the delightful Billy Crystal/Gregory Hines buddy comedy are in for something very different with this Running Scared. Ultra-violent and hardcore, it's a worthwhile ride even though it doesn't all work.
02/23/06
I can't believe I am saying this, but Paul Walker doesn't stink in Running Scared. In fact, Running Scared is a decent guys night out movie.
02/23/06
A flat-out atrocity of storytelling design that requires a thorough shower after viewing.
02/23/06
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