rupertbreheny Review of Running Scared

Running Scared (2006)

Soulless, morally bankrupt, faux gritty piece of trash

[3/10 · 7 January 2006]

A would be down and dirty crime thriller attempts to lift the style but none of the substance from Training Day / Man on Fire / Collatoral. The resulting car crash of a movie, presided over by the ever charmless Walker, is a long cavalcade of nasty, brutish and utterly irredeemable violence and squalor. The gutless finale revealing our anti-hero to in fact be a law-upholding undercover cop goes even further raise the bile in my gut. So much for the courage of the film-makers convictions. Of particular offence were the racist string of Russians, pimps and child-abusers on screen long enough to manipulate a braying audience to cheer their demise at the end of a succession of phallic firearms. Insipid, manipulative, contrived rubbish from start to finish.