The Running Man (2/5)
Posted on 15 Feb 2011
A sloppy and silly cartoon of a film, dropping nearly every cliche in its action scenes and one-line dialog. This was produced the same year and cost about as much as ‘Predator’, which is a far superior film (probably my second favorite Schwarzenegger film after T2). Casting the host from Family Feud as the villain is the only decent choice the filmmakers made. A cheap score, and typically over-zealous futurecasting also didn’t age the film well. (It takes place in a dystopian 2017 where violent television and consumerism have run comically rampant). A second star for being a childhood nostalgia flick.
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