The Running Man

United States

1987

101 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 2.7/5 Stars.
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PROD George Linder, Tim Zinnemann

SCR Steven E. de Souza, Stephen King

CAST Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown, Jesse Ventura

ED Mark Warner, Edward A. Warschilka, John Wright

SOUND Richard C. Franklin, Paul Timothy Carden, Richard Bryce Goodman

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Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this futuristic riff on THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME about a dystopian society where "criminals" are sent into an arena to be hunted by gladiators in a nationally televised reality show. A kind of precursor to THE HUNGER GAMES, the film was ahead of its time. A bit cheesy now, but it holds up surprisingly well. Based on an early work by Stephen King.

bluntfringe

26Mar12

So bad it's good.

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HEDONIST

30Jan13

80's gold

the.deft.one

30Jan12

Stephen King's excellent novel is given really poor treatment in a film that is cheap looking and actually quite boring. Action sequences are repetitive and incomprehensible at times and, whilst Mr Schwarzenegger may deliver some brilliant one-liners (as per), it's not enough to save this from being a dire effort from beginning to end.

Jack Lehtonen

22Oct11

The birth of Arnold as his own auteur begins here. He'd been in great films previously (The Terminator, Conan the Barbarian) but it is here that he sculpts his iconic persona. His unique (some would say wooden, I would say comic) delivery of one-liners ("Here is Sub-Zero, now... Plain-Zero!") comes to the forefront, and Arnold become the Arny we know and love. He had to build his own persona to work as a star.

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