The most appealing thing about this movie is the charisma and good humour delivered by the two leads.
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11/06/01
Running Scared (1986)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:7
Rotten:8
Average Rating:4.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: After toiling through years of freezing winters, two undercover cops plan to leave Chicago and retire to a lush tropical island -- if they can only make it through their last month of service. But... [More]
Starring: Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer, Darlanne Fluegel
Director: Peter Hyams
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1 - 20 (sorted by source)
Has all the logic and transitional ease of a Pokémon-style card game played by 5-year-olds who don't understand the rules, so they make up their own as they go.
02/23/06
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07/29/02
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05/24/03
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01/01/00
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11/21/04
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01/07/06
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07/04/05
A breezily entertaining buddy-cop movie with too much cutesy shtick for its own good. Gregory Hines is OK, but Billy Crystal is never believable as a Chicago cop.
10/20/05
Relentlessly competent in a TBS Saturday afternoon kind of way.
01/24/03
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01/07/06
Pre-Lethal Weapon mid-80s buddy flick before
02/18/03
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02/27/04
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05/20/03
Despite strong performances and an intriguing idea, it's clumsily overwritten, straining badly to be a complex thriller.
12/31/05
You suspect you're in for a violent film when it opens with several balaclava-faced men in black bursting in on a group of thugs whose conversation is limited to constructions around the words ****** or whore. With "Running Scared " your suspicions would
03/20/06
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06/24/06
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04/27/07
Overblown, ultra-violent and frequently stupid, yet perversely entertaining with it
01/07/06
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October 19, 2005:
Trailer Bulletin: Running Scared
No, it's not a remake of the goofy ol' Billy Crystal cop comedy. It's a new Paul Walker movie that looks exactly like an old Vin Diesel movie. Anyway, it's a New Line action... More...
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