The Running Man

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The Running Man

"You cold-blooded b! I'll tell you what I think of it: I'll live to see you eat that contract, but I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I'm going to ram it into your stomach and break your G.D. spine!" I love that quote! Such a great movie with intense suspense and barely any profanity which is nice sometimes in my opinion, less toxic that way. Up until a few days ago I had only seen Running Man once many years ago, so it made the second viewing very enjoyable and suspenseful. Easily among Arnold's best films ever!

This Arnie veichle made in his 80's heyday is one of his better ones, It's a movie based on a Stephen King book of the same name. It stars Arnie as a convicted killer (framed of course!)in the near future - Where TV is everything, He's forced to take part in a sadistic game show called 'The Running man' with an equally sadistic host played by real life game show host Richard Dawson in which convicted killers are chased by 'Stalkers' with Chainsaw's and flametorches who aim to kill the bad guys on National Live TV with the audience going wild and choosing which stalker will make their next kill to win board games and other crap, Stalkers have NEVER been killed on the show - Will Arnie & CO in their silly lycra pants kick the crap outta them? Of course they will All in all a likeable if dated 80's Arnie Flick My Rating 8/10

I first saw this in the early 90s on a vhs which I used to own. Revisited it recently. I enjoyed 95 % of Arnold's films n action films of the 80s but i didn't enjoy this one then n not even now. This one is very mild as ther r no brutal kills n the villains r more comic book style. Ther is absolutely no tension or suspense. The film does have some good one liners, the yellow spandex suit is hilarious, the Christmas tree guy is a big lol but watch out for those 80s dresses n moustaches inspite of the film set in 2019. Check out for Lin Shaye as the propaganda officer and Franco Columbu as the 911 Security Officer #2.

The Running Man is a cult classic, a film that didn't do so well when it was originally release, but more popular now. The Running Man has a premise that was later used by Battle Royale and The Hunger Games and easily stands along other dystopias from films of the era like Escape From New York and Robocop. It was violent, cheesy and had lots of Arnie one-liners. The Running Man was meant to be a satire about game shows but it's satire is more prescient now with the world of reality TV, 24 hour TV, and deep fakes.