Running Scared
After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things goes wrong for Joey after the neighbor kid stole the gun and used it to shoot his abusive father. Now Joey has to find the kid and the gun before the police and the mob find them first.
26 April 1974, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
29 December 1964, Long Island, New York, USA
11 April 1980
6 August 1973, Clifton, New Jersey, USA
24 November 1970, Angola
July 10, 2007
Wayne Kramer's latest film is a hard-hitting, visceral, over-the-top extravaganza of blood and bullets that doesn't let up for one second.March 24, 2007
Running Scared exists in that world of movies where there are no good guys - just bad guys, worse guys and worst guys.March 01, 2006
The end result of all these cross-mob confrontations is an orgy of nihilistic violence that is curiously exhilarating, I am almost ashamed to say.July 13, 2006
An example of a film I recommend just because it tickled my undercarriage.February 27, 2006
It's ugly and it's vile and it's disgusting and it's creepy and it just got tiresome.March 11, 2006
Presumably patterned after Robert Rodriguez's Sin City, but substantially more graphic, there is surely an audience for this empty brutality, but you would not want to know anyone to whom this picture appeals.February 24, 2006
Ethnic stereotyping, moral qualms and plot improbabilities aside, you just wish a movie like Running Scared wasn't so anxious to be exciting all the time: It gets so monotonous.February 28, 2006
It says something when the most sympathetic character is a kid who shoots his dad with a stolen pistol.April 08, 2007
The action throughout Running Scared is involving and fast-paced enough that you don't notice the number of cliches being invoked in this film.June 14, 2006
A montagem eficiente, com transições intrigantes, confere ritmo ao filme, que também se beneficia com a atuação surpreendentemente intensa de Walker. Pena que o roteiro seja tão implausível e o final, tão absurdamente ridículo.June 24, 2006
With audiences jaded by the usual sex and splatter, do the filmmakers have no qualms about juicing up proceedings with edgy but troubling material which clearly needs more conscientious handling? Apparently not.October 09, 2006
A well-acted piece that should appeal to anyone who enjoys the films of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.