Running Scared
New Line Cinema | Release Date: February 24, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
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9
Mixed:
8
Negative:
13
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38
USA TodayMike Clark
A potential howler done in by a tendency to wear too much body tissue on its sleeve. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The whole movie is some kind of joke, a sick one to be savored by a certain segment of the movie audience. You know who you are. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle Smith
Running Scared has some camp value as the kind of midnight movie you can laugh at (not with), but it isn't so much imitation Tarantino as it is imitation imitation Tarantino. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyScott Brown
Running is a fevered smashup, as if Hollywood dug up Sam Peckinpah's corpse and forced it to adapt "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" for the screen. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
A vicious, incoherent shoot-'em-up. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
When promising independent filmmakers decide to jump on the bandwagon and pump up the gore, the results are sure to be touted as visceral and unflinching. Don't be fooled. Kramer has even commented that the movie should be viewed as a modern-day Grimm's fairy tale. It's grim all right. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill White
Writer/director Wayne Kramer's approach to storytelling is to withhold any information that might give away the plot. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
The result is an out-of-control, lost-in-the-funhouse experience. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
A depressing piece of gun-crazy Hollywood scuzz that, with its gassy style and runaway immorality, makes a Tony Scott movie look like a Robert Bresson picture. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneAllison Benedikt
I have a sneaking suspicion that Running Scared could become a cult classic. Read full review
20
SalonStephanie Zacharek
It's lower on the food chain than a mere exploitation picture because it clings so desperately to the notion that it's a serious movie about violence; it doesn't even have enough integrity to serve up cheap, sick thrills for their own sake. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It's not just a bad movie it actually manages to suck the very hope out of the air, leaving behind a cinematic vacuum populated by mobsters, sadists, pedophiliac demon-people, and an overwhelming sense of futility that just makes you want to run in the other direction. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
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. Read full review
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