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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.
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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Reviews for Running Scared
Where Running Scared is concerned I'm a victim who has decided, maybe unwisely, not to press charges.
03/09/06
Trying for a Tarantino-like riff on ultra-violence and over-the-top police corruption ... 'Running Scared' is a film noir on steroids.
03/09/06
Think of a Sopranos episode with no interesting characters and you have "Running Scared."
03/06/06
The movie doesn't so much wallow in the abhorrent side of humanity as it showers, bathes, and dresses in it before heading off to work at MTV.
03/04/06
Style overpowers substance in 'Running Scared,' but Paul Walker surprised me with his intense performance.
03/04/06
Run away ... Just when you think Hollywood can't get any worse in an era of Bad Boys and Scream, it constantly surprises you with even more putrid product.
03/03/06
Clumsily overwritten, straining badly to be a complex thriller but only generating small moments of believability.
03/01/06
Wildly stylized and endlessly inventive, Running Scared doesn't go over the top -- it blows the top off and proceeds to dance in the rubble.
03/01/06
The 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 CriticIf Running Scared is supposed to be a satire, it's not funny enough to work. If it's meant to be taken seriously, then it's the most unintentionally funny movie of the past ten years.
03/01/06
It says something when the most sympathetic character is a kid who shoots his dad with a stolen pistol.
02/28/06
Not since 'Very Bad Things' have I had this much fun with this kind of movie
02/28/06
Appallingly gross, filled with forced profanity, and atrociously edited.
02/28/06
Running Scared is filled with plenty of blood-splattering violence, profanity, sexual perversions, and whatever other deviant behavior you can think of. What it doesn't have is any cohesiveness or finesse.
02/28/06
It's a current ultraviolent take on fairy tale malaise - a kid's story told by a psychopath.
02/27/06
Running Scared doesn't always work. All the same, it keeps up a nice pacing and throws in enough clever twists to keep the story interesting.
02/27/06
It’s ugly and it’s vile and it’s disgusting and it’s creepy and it just got tiresome.
02/27/06
Top CriticCreative risks pay off big in 'Running Scared.' They give the film a refreshingly different feel.
02/26/06
Paul Walker's excellent tough-guy adventure begins with the proverbial bang.
02/26/06
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