Pretty warmed-over stuff, this future world of the terminal TV game shows, and director Glaser fails to muster much pace and punch.
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06/24/06
The Running Man (1987)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:20
Rotten:12
Average Rating:5.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Television
Synopsis: In the 21st Century, the government frames a good cop for a bloody massacre. The authorities take him into custody and then give him an option: he can spend the rest of his life in jail or... [More]
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Reviews for The Running Man
It's not quite Network, but then it also doesn't take itself too seriously.
08/30/04
Top CriticWe can only hope network execs that are watching don’t get any funny ideas.
02/05/04
The movie's problem is that all of the action scenes are versions of the same scenario.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe story concept is good, and the film has plenty of fun and campy moments, but it’s also a little goofy.
05/14/04
The fun of the movie is really in its premise, its cool confrontations between Arny & villains, the cheezy one-liners and Maria Conchita-Alonso in tights!
08/25/06
The message is irrelevant. It's still the Olympian myth, albeit in a Lycra leotard, that counts with the Arn Man.
01/01/00
Top CriticA brainless, breathless thrill.
04/30/08
The movie lacks any real tension and seems to be a host of fight scenes hastily added together.
01/01/00
Schwarzenegger sadistically dispatches the baddies, enunciating typical wisecrack remarks (many repeated from his previous films), but it's all too easy.
04/30/08
Top CriticYou want to know if The Running Man is a good-time macho show, right? Stay at home and watch professional wrestling.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe licenses taken with King’s original tale only serve to make a more effective movie.
08/23/04
Only Richard Dawson -- brilliantly cast -- redeems this mess with a superior performance.
06/05/07
It's an arcade-game romp done with flair.
04/30/08
Richard Dawson's best performance in a film.
12/21/04
Another guilty pleasure from the Schwarzenegger catalog
11/15/02
The picture fails to please beyond its glossy surface, cheap thrills, and crazed Richard Dawson cameo. Hmm ... maybe that's not such a bad thing.
08/04/02
Cheesy, witty, enjoyable Arnold pic.
01/29/04
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03/09/03
No review available.
05/24/04
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