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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 44 reviews)
Sales Rank: 127
Category: DVD
Director: Wayne Kramer
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Studio: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Label: New Line Home Video
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 122 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 794043103056
EAN: 0794043103056
ASIN: B000F5WR4W
Release Date: June 6, 2006 (New: Last 30 Days)
Theatrical Release Date: February 24, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Editorial Reviews:
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Trying to explain the wildly accelerated plot of this non-stop action thriller would be like convincing Quentin Tarantino to retell the saga of The Sopranos in 15-minutes or less. Don't misunderstand, Running Scared wastes little time on the nuanced details that make the violent, narratively precise, and intricately characterized world of The Sopranos so stylish and compelling. But boy, does it have style to spare, not to mention plenty of violence, narrative, and a cast of characters that all engage in a heady battle for your attention. Paul Walker has the unenviable task of fleshing out the role of a low-level mob flunky who's assigned to get rid of a gun that was involved in a bloody drug deal gone bad. When he botches even that little job, it's not just his wife who gets mad at him. Creepily threatened kids, put-upon women who save the day, and an array of pimps, hookers, sleazy gangsters and dirty cops straight ouuta central casting are all part of the intricate jumble of the story (not to mention bullet-time close-ups and a nifty scene that imparts the inherent danger of hockey pucks in a whole new light). It's hard to believe this outlandish piece of ultraviolence came from writer/director Wayne Kramer, the same creative mind that gave us the smooth little caper flick The Cooler. Don't think about that too hard though. Considering the madcap rush of Running Scared's wicked fun and inspired lunacy, you won't have the time to anyway. --Ted Fry
Description
Slick, fast-paced and brutally shocking, this gritty actioner will jolt your senses like nothing else you've ever experienced. Struggling mob hand Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) finds his life turned inside-out when a "hot" weapon he's in charge of concealing goes missing. With two mafia families and a team of crooked cops watching his every move, Joey sets out on a chilling, bloody pursuit, maneuvering his way through a horrific web of creeps and criminals, praying he can retrieve the gun and make it home to his family -- alive.
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Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
 Running Scared June 20, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Remember the title of this movie! I personally thought it was great! This film starts with (a very effective Paul Walker) involved in a bloody shootout. You have to watch to get the hows and whys, but somehow his gun gets taken (by an abused neighbor child, absolutely brilliant child actor Cameron Bright) and all hell, and I truly do mean all HELL breaks loose. I Loved this movie! There was not a dull moment, not one.
It does make Kill Bill look like Sesame Street.... June 20, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Just absoloutely phenomenal! A thrillride that makes you say "Oh my God." every next moment. Pure amped up insanity. A definite must-see!
 Running Scared is watchable but it's not that great June 20, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Running Scared is not a remake of the 80's movie with Billy Crystal & Gregory Hines. Running Scared is about Paul Walker (Meet the Deedles, Pleasantville) who plays Joey, a guy who was in a shootout that caused the deaths of some dirty cops. So, he has to stash a gun at his place and take care of it. His son Nicky played by Alex Neuberger has a friend named Oleg played by Cameron Bright (Godsend, X-Men: The Last Stand) who lives next door to them. When shots ring out next door Walker finds out that Bright took the gun and ran away. This doenst look good for Mr. Walker as he runs around trying to locate young Bright and get the gun back before something happens to him. I'm not a Paul Walker fan and I've only liked him in one movie which was Joy Ride and everything else he's been one dimensional in like Into The Blue, Fast and the Furious' and so on. His performance in here was OK and better then his other ones. The movie itself has some slick action scenes but to me it wore out of steam during the middle and some of the acting is totally dull. Vera Farmiga (Down to the Bone, 15 Minutes) & a creepy Elizabeth Mitchell (Frequency, Gia) were the only supporting people that really did good. Chazz Palminteri (The Usual Suspects, A Bronx Tale) was wasted big time. Also starring Ivana Milicevic (In Her Shoes,Slipstream), Johnny Messner (Hostage, Spartan), a horrible Karl Roden (Hellboy, Bulletproof Monk), John Noble (Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), Michael Cudlitz (American Virgin, The Negotiator) and Bruce Altman (Marci X, L.I.E.)
full of twists - so good June 19, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
let me tell you if you like movies with twists... go get RUNNING SCARED!!!!
like right now!!
it's one of my latest favorites!!!
it's full of twists, i you can guess, but you won't know the end!!!
it's so clever!!!! :P
highly recommended!!! ;)
"I have never seen evil before tonight" June 17, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Whoa.
Okay I just got done watching this film. The first thing that comes to mind is how many twists and turns the movie has. It breaks into them slowly then escalates them towards the last hour of the film. The weird thing is, it's moving as fast as a freight train at the beginning. There's so much going on and so many new puzzle pieces coming into play that you get dizzy. Think of the movie "Crash" combined with "Memento" and maybe a bottle of Ripped Fuel and that's what this movie is. Now, the result may be not as critically acclaimed as "Crash" but it's not the time/coincidences or the connectivity of people's consequences coming together after the fact that sticks with me. It's all the little things. Certain scenes. The music. The ideology of cowboys in the modern ages...but first a quick recap of just what it is this movie is about.
Running Scared stars Paul Walker. Now after his last few movies I had given up on him really being anything more than a sub par actor in sub par action flicks. He seems to find his place a little better in this film, and his character is given some room to breath outside the box, allowing him to have time enough to be serious without us walking away afterwards saying "Hey, is that the guy in N'Sync?"
The movie starts out with a room full of mobsters and a table of cash. In come some masked bandits to make off with the loot. The robbers think they have it made until of course, someone pulls a gun (that happens a lot in this movie, in fact it really all centers around ONE gun, but I won't spoil that for you) and the shootout begins. As the mobsters are leaving, they find out the true identity of the gunman, and now know that things just went from "its going to be okay" to "we're up the creek against the current holding onto a bowling ball". And roll on it does, you see Paul Walkers character (Joey Gazelle) is one of the mobsters, and he's now in charge of getting rid of the guns used during the meeting that was "interrupted" by those other guys in ski-masks. Joey gets the gun hidden behind a panel in his basement wall, but does not realize his son and friend Olga (Cameron Bright) are watching in the shadows. Later that night Olga's father is shot in their house while he is abusing his wife. Olga is nowhere to be found. Neither is the gun. The mob wants to know if the gun used was the one Joey was supposed to hide, because you see, this Russian immigrant who lives next to the Gazelles just happens to be in the...
Okay, it only gets more twisted from there, but not in a sick way...well kind of. The gun starts changing hands. People start getting nervous. Others are getting even. And the whole time we're left just trying to keep up with who is who, who is on what side, and how it will all come down. I don't think I've ever seen a movie pull so many Aces out of its sleeve and still leave you halfway impressed. The fate of the gun will surprise you, the fate of Olga may please you, and the fate of Gazelle, his next-door neighbor, and all the kings' men may shock you.
I could tell this was something different than what I expected for a "Paul Walker" film. I expected far out stunts, dialogue lite, and cardboard characters cut right out of a Miller Light or GAP commercial. What I enjoyed about it went against me prejudging stereotypes. The characters and their problems were fairly solid. The action scenes were not over the top. There is not major high kick slow motion bullet stop action garbage going on. When someone gets shot, its quick, its loud, and the blood runs dark. Some of the circumstances that surround the multitude of scenes and subplots of the movie seem a little bizarre, but they are quickly toned done and meshed in well with some great introduction to evil, brutality, and desperation. One of the things that really came out as unique as well as disturbing was the couple that had Oleg for a short time. This couple is not what they seem, and their world may be suddenly turned inside out (no pun intended) when Gazelle's wife learns that Oleg is with them. True evil here and I think the scene's involving this couple were one of the best I've seen in a long time. When it comes to making you shake in your shoes at the feet of the truly bad people, these definitely suffice.
Another memorable scene was the hockey rink. His New Jersey mob pals who by this time are sick of playing games bring gazelle there. The Russian mobsters are there to. There are lots of questions to be answered, but more importantly, and ultimately, some lessons to be learned. Not since Michael Mann's "Heat" movie in 1995 have I been so impressed with a shootout scene. This movie has so much going on It could be called anything, but if you cut it down to just this scene, it alone stands on its own as one of the best violent crime drama scenes in a while.
The Soundtrack: I was very impressed with the soundtrack. To often the music can make or break a film that is on the edge, and in this case it definitely did not hurt it any. Modern day sounds. This isn't rock on the radio or Mozart, its just some deep, dark tones and edge filled themes that, coupled with some Mexican guitar like the movie "Dusk till Dawn", seems to fit all the scenes they take place in quite nicely. Was again, very impressed with the musical score for this one.
Whodunit, whose got the gun, who shot the Russian guy, and who is that pimp in the white coat that keeps talking smack? It all comes down to an explosive ending and again, has more twists and turns than you can shake a stick at. Perhaps to many twists and not enough turns, but if its complex they wanted, they did it. Not a badly executed movie. Paul Walker will never be Harrison Ford, but he may raise himself past Nicolas Cage someday soon when it comes to breaking out of the sub par action hero mold.
Wayne Kramer wrote and directed this film. If you liked films like "Way of the gun" or "Four Brothers" you may find this film to your liking.
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