SummaryIn order to save his family, a low-level mobster (Paul Walker) must recover a gun used in a mob hit before it's found by his bosses or the cops. [New Line Cinema]
Directed By:Wayne Kramer
Written By:Wayne Kramer
Running Scared
Metascore
Mixed or Average
41
User score
Generally Favorable
6.8
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
30% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
27% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
43% Negative
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
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.
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.
User score
Generally Favorable
67% Positive
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
23% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
11% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
Oct 24, 2013
10
A fresh crime dubstep movie. It has its touch with a pop culture mix and a lot of blood. I loved Running Scared, it's a movie with a lot of brilliant storyline and an unusual sprite of blood and guns which is not for the little ones or anyone who doesn't like splatters. Paul Walker is very good, loved him as Brian in Fast and Furious and loved him in Fast Five. People get shot in the ass, head and even eyes! It's crazy but I don't know why I loved this movie. It's awesome! The story is gritty and the suspense is freezing and nail biting till the end. Vera Farminga was excellent as Walker's wife. The old school Tarantino violent setting with an absurd amount of flashback usage in the making of this film! A very old school action druggie movie about a gun that gets stolen that could lead to a lot problems with cops and Pau Walker. A kid is shooting his- okay, enough spoilers! Watch the movie! Not for the people that don't like movies! Awesome, jarring and nail biting, Running Scared is excellent.
50
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."
40
Running Scared is decently acted and divertingly brutal, but it's also a giant step backward for its maker.
38
A potential howler done in by a tendency to wear too much body tissue on its sleeve.
25
The result is an out-of-control, lost-in-the-funhouse experience.
0
Running Scared is so desperate and surreally stupid that all you would have to do to see it as a brilliant sendup of everything that is corrupt, vulgar, sad, deluded and bad-for-you about Hollywood is squint.
Jun 20, 2013
7
Best movie yes hes one of my favorite actors,this movie is amazing it makes kill bill look like sesamy street. Buy this move its worth the buy.Love everything about this.
Jul 14, 2012
3
Unecessary roughness of action films...explorations of children, incoerency, bad **** spite of solid Vera Farmiga, the rest is a trash. By the way, the rivality USA X USSR comes back: depreciative and inconvenient. Fake Action!
Mar 8, 2014
1
This is the only film I've ever seen that is worse than Tommy W's "The Room". At least that piece of garbage was so bad it was good; this however, is just horrendous ly terrible.
Production Company:
- New Line Cinema
- Media 8 Entertainment
- True Grit Productions
- VIP 1 Medienfonds
- VIP 2 Medienfonds
- MDP Filmproduktion
- International Production Company
- Pierce/Williams Entertainment
- Zero Gravity Management
Release Date:Feb 24, 2006
Duration:2 h 2 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Its Find The Gun, Or Death ..
Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 2 Nominations
Golden Schmoes Awards
• 1 Nomination
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 1 Nomination
