Presumably patterned after Robert Rodriguez's Sin City, but substantially more graphic, there is surely an audience for this empty brutality, but you would not want to know anyone to whom this picture appeals.
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Running Scared (2006)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:9
Rotten:21
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: This film runs with frenetic energy punctuated by gratuitous violence but sorely lacks in plot, character development and stylistic flair.
Theatrical Release:Feb 24, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $6,651,790
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
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03/11/06
Top CriticThe end result of all these cross-mob confrontations is an orgy of nihilistic violence that is curiously exhilarating, I am almost ashamed to say.
03/01/06
Top CriticIt’s ugly and it’s vile and it’s disgusting and it’s creepy and it just got tiresome.
02/27/06
Top CriticEthnic 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
Top CriticThere'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
Top CriticIn the opening minutes of Running Scared, a drug deal goes bad and takes the entire movie with it.
02/24/06
Top CriticA 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
Top CriticKramer seems to be aping Quentin Tarantino's brilliant tangents in Pulp Fiction, but he doesn't have Tarantino's imagination or gift for dialogue.
02/24/06
Top CriticThis overlong fantasy of urban violence is so far over the top -- you might as well be watching a computer monitor while somebody else has a high time playing the video game Grand Theft Auto.
02/24/06
Top CriticAs the movie becomes more howlingly ludicrous by the second, it's tempting -- and not in a cynical way, either -- to start reading it as a parody of pornographic video game violence.
02/24/06
Top CriticBut even beyond its sleazy pandering and sensationalism, the film's worst transgression is its exploitation of young children.
02/24/06
Top CriticAn exhilarating bloodbath of a film, Running Scared may not be perfect, but it's got adrenaline, wild eyes and sleaze to spare.
02/24/06
Top CriticRunning Scared is not only toxic but irresponsible in the way it exposes young characters to a steady barrage of sleaze and violence.
02/24/06
Top CriticRunning 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.
02/24/06
Top CriticA 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
Top CriticIt's lower on the food chain than a mere exploitation picture because it clings so desperately to the notion that it's a serious movie about violence; it doesn't even have enough integrity to serve up cheap, sick thrills for their own sake.
02/23/06
Top CriticA potential howler done in by a tendency to wear too much body tissue on its sleeve.
02/23/06
Top CriticIn the gleefully violent Running Scared, the writer and director Wayne Kramer tries to go over the rainbow and put a self-consciously bloody spin on once upon a time.
02/23/06
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