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When I first saw this movie, I looked at it as, well, another 1980's action flick with Arnold Schwarzenegger literally devouring his enemies. It was entertaining, but it had something of a pro-wrestling mentality. It's a pretty good movie. It does recreate the look and feel of many of the WWF superstars, and it also includes former pro-wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura. It seemed to me that it was pure entertainment, as was pro-wrestling itself. However, something changed my mind. It was near the beginning of summer, when the news came that wrestler Owen Hart died of an accident at a wrestling event. His death shook me up, and it was hard for me to like wrestling anymore. After something like that, you realize that in some ways, "The Running Man" is true to life! It's about people fighting for their lives on a game show. The audience cheers for death and for blood. The more people are killed on the show, the higher the ratings go. Killian, the show's host, is a poke at WWF owner Vince McMahon, who, for the sake of ratings, has taken his wrestling federation farther than what anyone has ever seen before. Back then, it used to be Hulkamania, which was decent entertainment. Now, it's loaded with sex, violence, and blood. What went wrong? I don't know but reviewer Main Man can tell you all about it due to his high knowledge of wrestling. It's been close to a decade since I seen wrestling and the last straw was when Owen Hart lost his life over a stunt to please the fans! Aside from that, "The Running Man" actually tries to tell something important about the television entertainment we are having nowadays. If we take a quick look at some of the most daring and wretched ones of today's game shows we can note that even though they don't slaughter people yet they do almost everything else to keep the audience happy - no matter how immoral it might get. Here's a futuristic vision of a show called "The Running man". It still looks a pretty absurd and ridiculous from today's point of view but we're certainly heading to that direction. Slowly, perhaps, put that's the course. This movie can be seen as what it also is: excellent action movie and alongside with "Conan the Barbarian - Collector's Edition", "The Terminator", "Commando (Director's Cut)" and "Predator (Widescreen Collector's Edition)" it's one of the greatest Schwarzenegger classics of the 80's. He celebrated his 40th birthday in 1987, everybody found him a believable man of action, people loved him and actually took him and even his amusing Austrian accent seriously. If I look at "The Running man" and compare it to Schwarzenegger's most recent films this one makes me very nostalgic. He's so soft nowadays. But then again, 80's are in the past. In "The Running man" we have lots of cruel and brilliant fights, exciting and funny chases, maniacal bad guys with interesting weapons and among many other good things Arnie's famous "I'll be back" -one liner. Yes sir, I like it.Read full review
This film the Running Man is a great movie its based on a Stephen King novel which gives it even more awesomeness and it stars one of hollywoods OG tough guys Arnold in the leading role as Ben Richards, with Richard Dawson who played Newkirk on Hogans heroes as the nemesis in the running man named Killian. Dawsons character acts like a cross between trump on the apprentis and big brother in George Orwells nineteen eighty four does making for one epic cinematic battle between individuality and truth, versus group think and regulating of society behavior for orderliness at all cost.
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In 2019 Los Angeles a police man (Schwarzenegger) is accused and convicted of mass slaughter and sentenced to life in prison. A TV show called "The Running Man", which is the most popular TV show, allows some of the worse convicts to run an obstacle course through a condemned part of the old city, where they vie for their freedom against a series of challengers all armed with various weapons. The odds of survival are extremely slim, but if you win, you are pardoned. This is sort of a retro type of Roman Gladiator games in the old Roman Coliseum. The program is sponsored by defense contractors and major vacation companies, etc. If you win, you are supposedly rewarded with lavish prizes and allowed to go to spectacular vacation sites. Schwarzenegger was set up and blamed for the massacre of civilians, but was innocent. Now he is on the Running Man, and trying to clear his name and expose the real killers.Read full review
Starring The man himself Arnold Schwarzenegger,The Running Man is a strange semi apocalyptic future movie where media and Game shows Rule not only the airwaves but life itself. Arnold aka Ben Richards is a Convict of a phony crime and is sent into the game Show running man to fight and kill for his freedom. Along side with him in the show are his two friends and a mystery guest. The four of them are hunted maliciously by characters in the game known as "Stalkers", each with their own brand of justice and way to deliver it. Richards must find a way to not only escape alive but also show the harsh reality of whats going on to a hungry home viewing audience...... This is a great Arnold movie second only to Commando or Total Recall....Thank u ebay only .99 cents
The Running Man Maybe not the best movie ever made, but one of the best concepts for a movie ever, and I mean ever. Arnie is awesome and the super-villains he must dispose of are intimidating. The action scenes are great and the acting is decent enough, but the story is just so awesome that you can't go wrong. The Running Man is extremely well made for an 80's action movie, and will always have a place on my DVD shelf. Final Verdict: 4/5 Rent or Buy?: Buy this movie now, seriously... Run! IF YOU FIND THIS REVIEW HELPFUL PLEASE REMEMBER TO VOTE. Thank you.
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