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Warrior427

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good movie with alot of good scenes and if you can see it alot of humor more ironic humor then anything really bloody and entertaining some of the plot is really cool like the guy who thinks hes joun wayne but the whole pimp guy things was just crazy

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Posted oct 19, 2008 12:16 pm pt

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Running Scared is an overall good movie.Paul Walker did fair acting and the story was good as well.However i think it was the film making that carried this movie.The story lacked a plot and it got kind of confusing towards the end.So lets break it...
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Running Scared is an overall good movie.Paul Walker did fair acting and the story was good as well.However i think it was the film making that carried this movie.The story lacked a plot and it got kind of confusing towards the end.So lets break it down.Guy is in mafia.guy shoots a cop.guy hides the gun.kid finds the gun and shoots his dad.guy goes around looking for the kid and the gun with a lot of unfotunate events along the way.guy finds gun and kid.guy (paul walker) turns out to be a cop...again.as always.Its pretty much a gorier version of Fast And the Furious only with out the cars.Except that kickass sexy red mustang.Im not bagging on the movie it is one of my favorites but because of the film making not really the story behind it.Its kinda bleak.

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Posted jun 4, 2008 10:19 am pt

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good movie, one of paul walkers best.

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Posted mar 18, 2008 6:55 am pt

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running scared is a very intense amazing movie..mi have seen ver a hundred times at home and it jsut is a really good movie.. i would most defintley give it a 100% for this movie.. especially the actors play a great role in the movie like ver...
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running scared is a very intense amazing movie..mi have seen ver a hundred times at home and it jsut is a really good movie.. i would most defintley give it a 100% for this movie.. especially the actors play a great role in the movie like ver valmiga,, camerion bright and alex neuburger,and paul walker, they fit the movie the best in this movie.. this movie is one of the best movie i have everr seden

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Posted jan 26, 2008 4:10 am pt

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Good movie overall, but I can assure you that it could have been a lot better. Paul Walker was great in this movie, and the whole concept of the film was good too, I really like the movie and the way it was done, though the plot was a little weak...
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Good movie overall, but I can assure you that it could have been a lot better. Paul Walker was great in this movie, and the whole concept of the film was good too, I really like the movie and the way it was done, though the plot was a little weak (it could have been better) but it was good.

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Posted mar 8, 2007 9:19 am pt

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Cool movie .. :D Paul Walker is really cool in this movie , not used to see him with guns and stuff.
Nice work.

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Posted feb 13, 2007 3:46 am pt

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Everything about this movie is brilliant! I mean it, the story, the acting, the pacing, the themes, even down to the visual style what with the film zooming out from a brick wall that has the title of the movie written in graffiti into the very...
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Everything about this movie is brilliant! I mean it, the story, the acting, the pacing, the themes, even down to the visual style what with the film zooming out from a brick wall that has the title of the movie written in graffiti into the very room the forthcoming scene is about to take place in, to the stunning ice rink scene at the end!

Now it's not the kind of movie you'd expect Paul Walker to act in. Yeah that's a silly notion, it's going along with stereotypes and using his past roles to judge any role he may ever take in the future. It's a down right silly thing to do 'cause he's an actor and he's gonna act, but you still can't help thinking why is Pauley in this movie? Putting all that aside he does an absolutely fantastic job in what is quite simply a hallmark performance in the young actor's career. That coupled together with a cast of talented actors in supporting roles and the solid writing and direction from My Wayne Kramer make this a must see. Wayne Kramer? "Who's that?" I hear you say. I don't blame you, he hasn't exactly got the Scorsese haze floating around him but he sure does have the talent. To put your mind at ease, he did a lovely lil movie called "The Cooler" with William H. Macy, who I cannot forget seeing in Mystery Men. Ever since that role I've found it hard to take him seriously but he is an actor with depth. Kramer also helmed another great but relatively unknown number called Mindhunters which features a blend of very well known to well known to err, who's that again cast of actors. Check out both of those movies sometime too.

Anyways back to Running Scared. Now the movie starts off with a scene that could either be a flashback or quite literally the start of the movie, either way it hooks you and I guarantee you'll want to keep watching, even if its to make sense of it all. Regardless of why you haven't switched off, or walked out if you happened to catch it in the cinema, is because what is about to ensue is a rocky ride around town! Paul Walker's character Joey tries to track down his neighbor's kid Oleg, played by an up and coming young actor Cameron Bright, and more importantly the gun Oleg stole from him and used to shoot his abusive gangster affiliated uncle Anzor, played by Karel Roden, who's been in quite a few good movies himself. The gun itself is a character in the movie as it was also used to kill one or two dirty cops prior to it finding its way into Oleg's hands. You could say the gun acts as a catalyst for all the events that surround it. While Joey frantically searches for the gun we encounter the scum of the earth, all in one movie, by way of Joey, Oleg and his woman Teresa, nicely played by the sexy Vera Farmiga. Dirty cops? Check! Gangsters? Check! A Prostitute and her pimp? Check! Husband and Wife murderer/pedophile team? Err double check! Now if that isn't enough to satisfy your appetite than I think the twists will in the story will!

Overall this movie is just wonderful and I urge anyone who considers them self a film buff, fanatic, lover, or whatever to check it out. Running Scared is easily one of the most entertaining movies of 2006. Are you not entertained? Yes I bloody well am!

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Posted feb 5, 2007 12:41 pm pt

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At first I was reluctant to watch this movie because Paul Walker hasn't done a good movie in quite a while.
Boy am I glad I watched it.
In the beginning of the movie, you wonder why all this commotion is happening and it gets explained...
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At first I was reluctant to watch this movie because Paul Walker hasn't done a good movie in quite a while.
Boy am I glad I watched it.
In the beginning of the movie, you wonder why all this commotion is happening and it gets explained later on.
And it's something that you do not expect.
It touches on subjects unfamiliar to Paul Walker films. And they do it oh so well.
It touches on pedophilia, sex slavery and battery.
Everything is good in this film.
It's long, but it's worth it.

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Posted jan 20, 2007 8:17 am pt

• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  It's a pumped-up, intricate and fast-moving yarn that never flags and continues to play out in unexpected ways as it unravels.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  83
  Paul "Surfer Boy" Walker turns in a very credible action performance if you give him a Jersey accent, cover him in grime and beat the ever-loving tar out of him for two hours.

  by M. E. Russell | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  75
  Running Scared is a vicious and brutal B-movie jacked up to hysterical, hallucinatory proportions -- a pulpy, violent action picture that torments the viewer as much as its characters, and I mean that as a compliment.

  by Rene Rodriguez | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  75
  If Running Scared had come out in 1994, before "Pulp Fiction," it - and Kramer - would be hailed as blazingly original. But questions of originality notwithstanding, there's plenty of blazing going on here.

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  75
  If you like kinetic movies about crime, criminals, and all sorts of bad behavior, Running Scared will catch and hold your attention.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  Goes so far over the top, it circumnavigates the top and doubles back on itself; it's the Mobius Strip of over-the-topness. I am in awe. It throws in everything but the kitchen sink. Then it throws in the kitchen sink, too, and the combo washer-dryer in the laundry room, while the hero and his wife are having sex on top of it.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  It's way too violent and perversely excessive for many tastes, but there's more to its outrages than meets the eye, and that second look is well worth taking.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  70
  An overly ambitious guilty pleasure with enough action and violence to keep you interested, it just doesn't have much else.

  by Michael Ferraro | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
  63
  Ultimately, it is a serviceable, well-made thriller that earns its R rating.

  by Jessica Letkemann | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  60
  There also are hints of Doug Liman and Tony Scott to be found in this hopped-up, bullet-riddled crime thriller, but while certain sequences pack an admitted visceral kick, the prevailing effect is one of utter overkill.

  by Michael Rechtshaffen | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
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  Even a talented lead couldn't save Mr. Kramer from himself. As a writer, he may have fashioned a genre-busting screenplay, one that has its postmodern cake and eats it, too, but as a director he proves himself as blood simple, if generally less adept, as any Hollywood hire.

  by Manohla Dargis | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
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  Not surprisingly, everything feels begged, borrowed and stolen from other better movies, from Quentin Tarantino's exclamation-point violence to the slo-mo bullet trajectory shots from "The Matrix."

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
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  There's no denying that viewers not prepared for the relentless stream of nasty personalities, profane invective and bone-crunching violence are in for a very long sit.

  by Justin Chang | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
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  The ugliness on display in Running Scared has neither "Sin City's" context nor its wit, and it offers little more than stylish excess for its own sake, with no clear aspirations other than to twist people's arms until they yelp "Uncle."

  by Scott Tobias | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
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  Running Scared's relationship to "The Cooler" is roughly that of industrial metal to a quaint torch song.

  by Liam Lacey | Read Full Review »