The Running Man (1987)
Genre: Action / Scifi
Duration: 101 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Paul Michael Glaser
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Dawson and María Conchita Alonso
IMDb score:
6,6 (187.822)
Releasedate: 13 November 1987
The Running Man plot
"It is the year 2019. "The Running Man" is a deadly game no one has ever survived. But Schwarzenegger has yet to play."
2019. All communication is controlled by the government. A police officer is wrongfully arrested for shooting hundreds of innocent people. He escapes, but is reported. As punishment, he has to compete with 'The Running Man'. That is the most popular and sadistic television game of the time. He has to get through 4 quadrants in 3 hours while murderous hunters are chasing him.
Actors and actresses
Ben Richards
Damon Killian
Amber Mendez
William Laughlin
Fireball
Captain Freedom
Dynamo
Harold Weiss
Buzzsaw
Subzero
Reviews & comments
des1
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- 1736 messages
- 993 votes
Camp, humor and suspense - what more could you want?
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Lovelyboy
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- 3906 messages
- 2920 votes
Don't forget to send me a copy.
Schwarzenegger film from the typical 80s that can hardly be taken seriously, just like Commando, but nevertheless has a certain gun factor. So wrong that it actually becomes cult again, and a kind of guilty pleasure.
Ultra-thin story about people in a dystopian society, those who don't get along are knocked down or locked up like Ben. In this case, he is also chosen to participate in a curious TV program. Not only do we see the phenomenon of popular abuse, but the image of the 'sensational' program itself is socially critical. The average person is a disaster tourist, and although murder and manslaughter like in this show is next level, the average person can just as easily be filled with non-news, someone else's misery, and the average gossip, backbiting, betrayal and behavior in the average reality TV.
Humorous is the so-called image of 2017, what an old mess we had three years ago, the typical one-liners of Austria Arnie, the rest of the bevy of steroids and red meat eaters including acquaintances of Arnie himself such as Jesse Ventura and Sven Ole Thorsen, years his training buddy I believe, and an unrecognizable Mic Fleetwood. Then the so-called Gladiators of which Dynamo is surely the stupidest with his ridiculous outfit, vehicle and singing. Not to forget Amber who indeed has a nice ass but otherwise terribly annoying.
The Running Man, after a book by Stephen King I just discovered, is far from top and can be called quite wrong and cult, but also enjoyable because it doesn't last too long. The end result is simply entertaining for once.
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Chainsaw
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- 8845 messages
- 3576 votes
In retrospect, it's not very strange that I often confused this film with Total Recall. But The Running Man was created by another Paul, namely Paul Michael Glaser, better known as Starsky from that 1970s television series. Still, it feels like the presence of a director like Verhoeven - or someone like Terry Gilliam - would have done this film well, it would undoubtedly have sharpened it up a bit. Because The Running Man is extremely amusing, sometimes wonderfully pulpy, clumsy and clumsy, but it is far from a RoboCop of Brazil. The satire often remains rather flat and the film feels very middle-of-the-road despite the crazy premise. But then a very entertaining middle-of-the-road film, fortunately.
3.5 stars.
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