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The Running Man tagline: The year is 2019. The finest men in America don’t run for President. They run for their lives.
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| Directors: Paul Michael Glaser | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 out of 33,858 votes |
“The Running Man” Movie Review
“The Running Man” Plot Summary
A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show. add synopsis
An outstanding action movie
The Running Man is everything a film should be. It has copious amounts of violence, plenty of one-liners and a clever storyline. Arnie plays his usual type of character, the badass strongman up against the system. Running Man was made in the late 80s, one of the glory eras for action films. Back then, violence counted, and in this film there is more than enough to keep you entertained. There are plenty of highlights, but the best scene is probably when Arnie chainsaws his enemy, a rather fat and sweaty ‘chaser’ between the legs. Suffice to say, said ‘chaser’ does not enjoy the experience…… Other highs include the big shootout at the end, when Arnie leads a small Army of computer geeks into battle with his trademark cigar taking pride of place in his mouth. Richard Dawson is superb as the sleazy game show host Killion, and his tete-a-tete with Arnie at the end is excellent! The music is your typical 80s pumping rock and suits the tone of the film very well. Of course the writers are assuming that in the future there will be a huge 80s revival, but there you go…. This is certainly one of Arnie’s best outings. Its just a shame that today’s movies are so tame. They would do well to replicate Running Man’s levels of action.
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My favorite Arnie movie
THE RUNNING MAN, along with TOTAL RECALL, is my favorite Schwarzenegger movie. No, this isn’t 2001, but it’s not meant to be. And the acting and script here isn’t even up to par with other Arnie movies like PREDATOR or THE TERMINATOR. But I submit that the IDEA behind this movie is one of the coolest ever to hit the big screen. A state-sponsored game show in which criminals convicted of serious crimes compete against ‘heroic’ stalkers armed with all kinds of weapons (the runners are equipped with none) in order to satisfy the public’s lust for sport and blood. The ultimate prize for a winning runner: freedom. Or so the rules claim
For a movie with such over-the-top gory death scenes and cheesy one-liners, it really does have a lot to say. Someone else has pointed out all the commentary on culture/government presented in this movie, so I won’t go into it here. Suffice it to say that if you can look beyond the seemingly silly feel of the movie, you will enjoy it very much (especially if you’re a big SF fan with a lot of imagination). Like I said, it’s not trying to be a serious art film, but it IS surprisingly layered for a 80s shoot-em-up flick. The premise is borrowed from a Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King) short novel, but diverges fairly strongly from its source material, especially towards the end. (The book ends rather nihilistically; needless to say this movie doesn’t.) I enjoyed both, but I like the movie better
My favorite line: ‘Guess it’s caused from steroids.’
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The best picture of 1987
Didn’t Mystic Pizza win the Oscar for that year? This movie never had a chance, due to the casting, but perhaps by now people can see why I felt that way upon leaving the theater. Only ‘Wargames’ left me feeling similarly disturbed after leaving the theater, with the feeling I was getting a glimpse of our future. History has shown that this is exactly what happened
The casting is a pop-culture Cuisinart of the 1980s: you get Arnold as Ben Richards, the framed fugitive offered a chance to ‘run’ for his freedom on the game show with the same title as the movie; Richard Dawson as Damon Killian, treating his role as if he were the host of Family Feud with the contestants using real guns; Jesse Ventura as ‘Captain Freedom’ and co-wrestler Professor Tanaka as ‘Subzero,’ both ’stalkers’ who kill the ‘running men.’ Even Mick Fleetwood (Mic) and Dweezil Zappa (Stevie) show up, while the ‘dancers of the future’ are none other than the Laker Girls. This movie SCREAMS ’80s.’ The plot is a good excuse for the action: Ben Richards is determined to prove his innocence, but agrees to be the Running Man when he is told that his buddies would be set free; instead, they join him as ‘contestants.’ Maria Conchita Alonzo as Amber Mendez is the standard by which one can properly judge Salma Hayek in the 1990s
The production value on the film was a bit poor, the lines were cheesy, and (at the time), the plot seemed a bit far-fetched. I remember thinking when I was leaving the theater that we were definitely heading in the direction of the film, but who could have seen how far we’d go there and how fast? If The Running Man were listed in TV Guide, most people would assume it were just another reality show pushing the envelope today. The government influences on the media have only gotten worse, and the dumbed-down American public of the future that surrenders all of its freedoms for ‘national security’ is downright chilling. Ben Richards is played brilliantly by Arnold as one of the few remaining holdouts against a government tyranny that the rest of America is all too willing to accept in return for good television and some parting gifts for the audience
The movie was way over the top, maybe even off the cliff for its time, but as with Back to the Future III, the ‘ravine’ it appeared to be sinking itself into in 1987 was replaced by completed tracks in 2006 and beyond, and this movie will sail into the future as one of the more prophetic films of our time. It is tragic that, as with Wargames, the academy did not give this brilliant screenplay the recognition it deserved. ‘Serious’ actors acting seriously while being so pretentious that you want to throw up may win more Oscars, but that doesn’t make them better films than their ‘common man’ counterparts, such as this one
An absolute must-see.
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‘The Running Man’ – The year is 2019. The finest men in America don’t run for President. They run for their lives.
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