Running Scared

Ever so often a film comes along that people just can't handle. Sometimes they become legends (Breathless), sometimes they're awful (She Hate Me). Running Scared is one of those films.

Ever since I saw it, I've been trying to tell people, "this is it, this is the one", but they just can't get into it. "I'm not going to see a movie with Paul Walker", "The trailers make it look like run-of-the-mill action film", "I played the game online - no way I'm going to that movie!" and so on and so forth.

It's a hard sell. Paul Walker is a decent actor who doesn't choose very many good movies. The director, Wayne Kramer, did The Cooler, which wasn't that good at all. It's also that time of the year where studios tend to dump bad films.

Running Scared won't be truly appreciated for a long time, people are going to have to dig through the video store and stumble across it unless people start catching on.

Here's best how to describe the movie:
You know how when you're making a movie and something comes up by accident and your buddies are like "Haha, let's do this, it would be hilarious" and you're like "Yeah, it would be but it doesn't make any sense, it doesn't help anything and people wouldn't take it seriously" and you end up not doing it? Running Scared is like if you did all of those things and then started just trying to one up every crazy thing you did. And then that game got out of control and they just started doing a bunch of meth and other uppers and it just got crazier and crazier until it reached a point where they thought they couldn't go any farther and then one guy looks to another and says "I have an idea..."

That's how I saw the movie. I love it when people do that stuff in their films, just go for it, see if people can handle it. This movie was completely made of those movies. I could handle it and I loved it. I can see how people can't.

What's the movie about? It really isn't important. The plot is just something that gets Paul Walker and friends into weirder situations, transitions, shots, dialogue choices, etc. The movie just moves from place to place giving you something that's going to blow you away each and every time.

This movie contains:
[apple] A scene shot completely in black light
[apple] Paul Walker yelling and pointing his gun at a baby while it's mother holds it
[apple] Paul Walker getting into a fight with a man with a blow torch for no real reason
[apple] Incredible transitions
[apple] Characters that just couldn't exist in any other film anywhere. David Lynch would say, "Now that's too much" with some of these folks
[apple] A point where you forget that Paul Walker is even in the movie
[apple] More twists and turns than Oldboy.

Running Scared is one of those movies that you watch and you just don't know what to do with yourself afterwards. It really affects you.
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