Running Scared
by Wayne Kramer
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Actor: Cameron Bright, Chazz Palminteri, Ivana Milicevic, Paul Walker, Vera FarmigaDirector: Wayne Kramer
Brand: NEW Line Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Russian (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
Published: 2006-06-01
DVD Release Date: 2011-01-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: N10305
Studio: New Line Home Video
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- 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, maneuveri
DVD Reviews of Running Scared
DVD Review: "I have never seen evil before tonight"
Summary: 4 Stars
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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