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The Running Man (Special Edition)

The Running Man (Special Edition)

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Arnold is worth more than a one line summary......!
Review: I saw this a few years ago, and thought it was good. It was too violent in some scenes, but then that is what you'd expect from Arnold himself. He is a gifted actor. The storyline is one I have never seen duplicated since then either. This is a video I would watch if there was ABSOLUTELY nothing else on. :)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: PEOPLE WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND ARNOLD.
Review: LIKE AN EXPENSIVE CIGAR OR A RICH WINE, ARNOLD IS AN ACCQUIRED TASTE. ALL OF HIS MOVIES ARE UNIQUE. WHILE MY SPELLING ISN'T PERFECT, I'LL AT THE VERY LEAST SPELL THE MAN'S NAME I'M CRITICIZING CORRECTLY, DUBLIN!

Rating: 5 stars
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Running Man is one of Arnolds best
Review: This movie rules and besides predator and terminator is Arnolds best movie in my opinion. Its got tons of action and great lines as usual by arnold.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great date flick!
Review: "Well Leon, hard decisions call for hard answers..." This movie is undoubtedly one of Arnold's best. The unheralded star however is Richard Dawson. The preeminent game show host of our time emphatically draws the viewer into the ICS underworld. Sub Zero, Buzz Saw, Dynamo and our current governor of Minnesota all fall to the overpowering and simply bionic muscular power of the great ARNOLD! Why would you ever watch another movie after witnessing such Oscar worthy and masterful displays of cinematography under the leadership of super-god ARNOLD! Long live the King!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A GREAT MOVIE!!!
Review: This one is definitely a keeper! Schwarzenegger makes this film both Action packed (so much that the action was seeping out of my VCR!!! ) as well as chaotically fun! Forget about "I'll be back" this one has got some of his best ever one liners! As well as some great action scenes which make you think that maybe this time he doesn't make it! The host of the game show, Richard Dawson, who was the ex-Family Feud host as well, played a great part in being the Devilish Host of the sadistic mayhem that they call a game show! The supporting cast is also a treat with Maria Conchita Alonso and Jesse "The Body" Ventura. Overall, this was one Action packed movie right from the get go! This one will thrill both Arnold fans as well as Action thrill seekers alike! 5 Stars!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Whooo-hooo yay
Review: What more do you need: 1. Cool idea of fatal gameshow 2. Arnie 3. Arnie with plenty of corny one-liners 4. So many gimicks it IS funny 5. Guy from Hogan's Heroes A wonderful, if not techinically great movie. Fun Fun Fun.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good but too violent
Review: This film was a bit far fetched, as are all Schwartzenneger films but the acting and entertainment was very good. It was a bit too violent though. There was no need for some of the violence. No need at all.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Mediocre, but strangely likable and memorable 3.,5 stars
Review: It's the future, and the world is in a violent, poverty-stricken mess. The biggest entertainment around is . . . a reality show. A very brutal reality show. Convicted criminals become contestants in a game-show where they either get killed as they run a gauntlet against a bunch of thugs, or they survive and get to move to Hawaii.

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a man wrongly convicted of a crime and chosen as a contestant in the lovely game-show described above. Of course, Ahnold can't take that lying down, so he proceeds to not only survive, but try to break this ugly set-up. Richard Dawson plays the host of the show, which is broadcast everywhere, and hams up it to perfection, as the ultimate it's-all-about-ratings smarmy egotist-with-a-smile.

I didn't like the repetitiveness at times of the action scenes, nor the bad, cheap settings somewhat hidden by bad lighting. I did like the general sense of tension created, as well as Arnold's genuine good-guy versus Dawson's completely-fake bad-guy. Not a movie to rave about, but fun to watch if you don't have much else to do.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Perhaps more topical now
Review: While in 1987 this may have been simply another action star for Governor-to-be Schwarzenegger, viewed today this film offers more layers of meaning.

"The Running Man" is a reality show in which criminals are forced to run from bounty hunter-types who are given WWF wrestling style introductions and use a myriad of weapons to kill their prey. The audience cheers and boos mercilessly as the real-life people meet tragic ends. Seen today in the era of "Survivor" and "Fear Factor," among other reality shows, this movie offers much in the way of questioning the direction of such television. Is this the direction reality TV is going? Also good for a look at mass media and people's belief in what is told to them.

The movie is what it is. Fist-pumping commando, guns and heavy artillery. Schwarzenegger is wrongly framed for a crime he didn't commit and made a criminal in this Orwellian society in which the mass media is everything. He's forced into The Running Man world. There's some throw-away jokey lines after disposing of the heavy villains, but the real treat is watching real-life game show host Richard Dawson playing the slimy, evil host of The Running Man - the real villain in this movie full of larger-than-life killers.


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