Marathon runners are taken captive in desert by right-wing militia.Marathon runners are taken captive in desert by right-wing militia.Marathon runners are taken captive in desert by right-wing militia.
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- TriviaThe film was a passion project for actor Ronny Cox who had co-written the script with this wife Mary.
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Only a runner could take this movie seriously
I'll get it out of the way - runners annoy me.
It's not that I have no personal interest in running unless I'm playing a sport such as basketball. I'm also not personally interested in soccer or tennis, but I've never been annoyed by soccer or tennis players.
However, I've also never had a doctor who not only recommended exercise - but insisted the exercise be soccer or tennis. Nor have I ever witnessed a soccer or tennis player position a flag man in the middle of the street to stop traffic so that soccer or tennis players can do their thing while cars patiently wait for them. As a kid, I never had a soccer or tennis player scream at me and my friends in a park because our nerf football game got too close to their self-designated path.
I have, however, experienced all of the above with runners.
In my experience, runners (and possibly bicyclists) are the only sport enthusiasts on the planet with the pretense that what they are doing is so noble and important that everyone should be doing it - and if you're not gonna do it, you damn well at least better stay out of their way.
So on to the movie. It's a rather low-budget, amateurish, ridiculous effort in which the only thing that is consistent is its portrayal of runners as heroic individuals who are inexplicably attacked and heroically prevail over and over again. Never mind that most runners weigh about 125 lbs. And would last about 10 seconds in a fist-fight or any other sort of conflict other than a verbal debate about how wonderful running is - these runners can also defeat armed militia.
If you are a runner, you will probably enjoy this movie as a serious portrayal of how wonderful and noble runners are.
The rest of us can laugh at it as a parody of how runners actually see themselves.
It's not that I have no personal interest in running unless I'm playing a sport such as basketball. I'm also not personally interested in soccer or tennis, but I've never been annoyed by soccer or tennis players.
However, I've also never had a doctor who not only recommended exercise - but insisted the exercise be soccer or tennis. Nor have I ever witnessed a soccer or tennis player position a flag man in the middle of the street to stop traffic so that soccer or tennis players can do their thing while cars patiently wait for them. As a kid, I never had a soccer or tennis player scream at me and my friends in a park because our nerf football game got too close to their self-designated path.
I have, however, experienced all of the above with runners.
In my experience, runners (and possibly bicyclists) are the only sport enthusiasts on the planet with the pretense that what they are doing is so noble and important that everyone should be doing it - and if you're not gonna do it, you damn well at least better stay out of their way.
So on to the movie. It's a rather low-budget, amateurish, ridiculous effort in which the only thing that is consistent is its portrayal of runners as heroic individuals who are inexplicably attacked and heroically prevail over and over again. Never mind that most runners weigh about 125 lbs. And would last about 10 seconds in a fist-fight or any other sort of conflict other than a verbal debate about how wonderful running is - these runners can also defeat armed militia.
If you are a runner, you will probably enjoy this movie as a serious portrayal of how wonderful and noble runners are.
The rest of us can laugh at it as a parody of how runners actually see themselves.
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