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This film starts off with the energy of those ultra violent Italian Poliziotteschi movies from the 70s Soon as the movie starts you get robbers with ski mask kicking the FUCKING door down during the drug deal, and it becomes some of the most chaotic shit I’ve seen to an intro to a film. A head explodes from a shotgun shell; someone’s FUCKING COCK gets shot THROUGH THE PANTS, one of the most savage intros to a film I’ve seen. It’s an overedited mess, but I fucking adore it. A lot of people may hate this film, but I loved this movie since I first seen it with my brothers. This film goes in so many directions with its Adderall…
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Oh boy this was all kinds of a cliche mess to me and felt like the further fallout from Quentin Tarantino ripoffs of the late 90’s. Everything was hyperstylized like Tony Scott as they used so many different angles and camera movements as possible in padding out a film that should not have been this long to tell it’s limited tale. We get this sorted story of trying to follow this gun that our lead needs to get back that surprised me that it didn’t wind up in Forrest Gump’s hands for it’s travel journey. I couldn’t buy the crux of the story cause I feel unless you have an eye witness to the gun who would admit to being…
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A modern day exploitation movie, that’s nasty and violent as all hell. It’s darker than you’d probably expect from what looks like, at first glance, a simple action movie starring Paul Walker. This really blew me away when I randomly rented it from a Redbox in 2007, along with Ultraviolet, lol. After being throughly disappointed by Ultraviolet, I threw this on in the middle of the night, and it didn’t take long for me to be shaken out of my late night drowsiness. This movie comes in like a shotgun blast through the door and never lets up after that. 2 hours of a manic, frenzied energy, all kicked off by a boy stealing a gun from Paul Walker that…
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Brian O’Conner stars in this modern day Grimm’s fairy tale about the adventures of a little Russian-American Charlie Bronson, a desperate man who is in way too deep with the Mob, a missing gun, and multiple Big Bad Wolves. An opening straight outta King of New York. A nut-shot. A crackhead with a semi-unhealthy obsession with the Duke. A whacked-out hobo. Going down on Mrs. Bates. The chic that gets naked a lot on Banshee. A strip club. A MacDaddy pimp-slap. Between the eyes Southland style. A variation of the word Fuck used at least 328 times. A creepy apartment. An even creepier couple of creepers. Two sick-fucks get what they deserve. A Usual Suspect’s priceless MasterCard moment. Flaming cock.…
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The ever-charming and kind-hearted Paul Walker turns into a rough-mouthed, angry criminal whose life is threatened when the friend of his child, who is growing up in abusive circumstances, shoots him with a handgun used to shoot a cop earlier that day. Walker’s Joey Gazelle is now on the run, trying to find that kid and recover the evidence before he gets caught and is sent to prison for good… or worse. Director Wayne Kramer channels Tony Scott in terms of its later visual/editing style in a way that often rivals the late filmmaker’s work, even though it lacks much of the substance of the director. Despite the story’s obvious derivative qualities, the twists and turns keep everything interesting, especially…
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“YOU DON’T WALK OUT ON THE DUKE!” After a hit goes wrong and a cop is killed, Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) stashes the gun. Things go off the rails when the neighbour kid Oleg (Cameron Bright) takes the weapon and uses it to shoot his abusive John Wayne loving step-father Anzor (Karel Roden). In the chaos that follows both Oleg and the gun go missing, and Joey heads off on a nightmarish odyssey to clean up the mess. On the negative side, this is a very dumb movie (you can already tell from the decision to name a main character Gazelle in a film called Running Scared). The hyper stylization is really cool but also often comes off as a…
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Like Tony Scott made his own version of JERSEY SHORE, with a wild, mescaline freak out filtration of Grimm’s Fairy Tales washed through a scummy, breakneck crime picture. Very loud. Very much for me.
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Running Scared has style and pizzazz coming out of its ears. Both narratively and visually, the film oozes vigour and panache with each twist and flashy transition. But the film is quiet about this – ensuring it ostensibly appears to be conventional. A crime/thriller that focuses on sleazy gangs sounds run-of-the-mill and Running Scared adopts this ordinary visage so the underlying, expressionistic, bubbling and novel style of Wayne Kramer’s product is much more jolting. Gripping, hypnotic and yes, definitely scattered, but I say this as a compliment. There is so much going on and so many reversals of rhythm and tone, but it’s done in a way that isn’t convoluted, but is gripping and digestible. Ever since his passing, I’ve…
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I should be able to get behind something this digressive and silly and loaded with exuberant sleaze but there’s no real pulse here, just a series of empty vignettes. At least something like SIN CITY, which I find equally boring and garish, has the power of Frank Miller’s stupid personality. Somebody should take this script back in time to 1975 and give it to Fernando Di Leo.
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72/100
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The best part of this entire film is when Vera Farmiga saves three kids from a kid murdering couple…I think that says a lot about this film
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I knew this was gonna be good when we got a Vera Farmiga whale tail in the first 5 minutes, hell yeah
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Even as a Tarantino knock-off, Running Scared works because of its style/tone & performances by the ensemble including Paul Walker, who is giving what might be his best performance of his career. I do have some issues with the filmmaking, but it’s still entertaining for what it’s trying to accomplish. If nothing else, the ice rink and house sequence are the highlights from this film.
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Narratively a taught nasty action thriller. Stylistically the most mid 2000s. Probably Paul Walker’s best performance. I heard Jonathan Zaurin discuss how much he liked this movie and its director. I discovered it had been released on 3D Blu Ray in Germany, so naturally that’s the version I had to import. Turns out the 3D is utterly pointless.
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About twenty years ago I watched this film with a pal. Some alcoholic beverages were also present. The circumstances were almost identical now, and the results too. Some absolutely unhinged shit going on here.
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olegin yasadıkları baya kötüydü ayrıca pedo cift ilk basta o kadar iyi kalpli gorunuyodu ki..bunlar bile guvenimi bosa cıkardı ayrıca o sahne iğrencti
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Rrae 8 月 10, 2026
Absolutely bonkers. Sadly lewis fell asleep
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Bizarro como a vera tá lá no filme só pra ser a esposa sexualizada do homem foda incrível que resolve tudo, sei lá é tudo meio problematico
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If you think your life was bad look at Oleg’s🥲.
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the way he eat 👅👅👅
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Бегущая испуганный или как переводится. Короче пишв на телефоне, потому что смотрел я этот фильм вчера ночью в 4 утра по ебейшему телеканалу т24. По фильму. Интересно было пиздец, но какая то херь портила это. Про монстра не понял, это страхи олега или что. И сцена с хоккеем хуйня. Ну когда началась перестрелка то херня тут. 1 чел умер как его любимый ковбой😃. Другой какой то вор в законе встал, упал через борт и умер, его дед застрелил. А как…
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Стильный фильм и напряженный, но “голливудская” концовка все портит
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This movie had my heart running scared
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It’s shot very akin to Man on Fire which I honestly hate. It’s so overly choppy and the colour grading is just crap. Similar also to Man on Fire that it is a solid plot and some really nice acting but the shakey camera style is very off putting. There’s also just a mental amount of stuff going on. They have a good plot and go and add 900 things to it. Poor ol Oleg couldn’t catch a break. All…
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Speechless… Feels like Gotham City. Also… poor Oleg.
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C’est vrai que le personnage de Paul passe une très mauvaise nuit (Surtout rendu sua patinoire – If you know you know), mais le petit Oleg c’est sûrement la pire nuit de toute sa vie estik.
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good thing he don’t like cowboys
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Two words: Goomba f**k
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No me encantó que la cámara se mueve como desquiciada. El giro fue rebuscado pero me gustó que al final del niño acabara feliz.
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Never thought I’d see a Mastercard “Priceless” commercial bit about killing a dirty cop delivered by an actor who would be an extra in a Soprano’s porn parody. Then hockey players in full gear attack Paul Walker in a cosmic ice rink after a gang shootout. Wrapped in a nice tight bow as a honky cosplaying as a blaxploitation pimp mimics Tony Montana in a diner and fatally wounds Paul Walker.
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The is just peak everything is perfect the ending the story the music the plot the filming everything peak the part of those two PDF shows u things we don’t know in the life the movie talks about every problem in life i just love it
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A Paul Walker fever dream. 10/10 would rewatch if this was on TNT in my hotel room. The hockey rink scene is fantastic.
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SSEB 8 月 3, 2026
Shitty film without a doubt but it made me feel stuff in a way most films don’t 😣
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Réalisation très clipesque et bourrée d’effets de style gratuits qui n’apportent rien au récit. Dès la fusillade du début, le spectateur est prévenu. Paul Walker et Vera Farmiga sont très investis mais ne sont pas aidés par l’indigence de l’écriture globale. Certaines directions du scénario semblent sortir d’un autre film, notamment tout le passage avec le couple kidnappeur d’enfants. Les très longues deux heures de film finissent par épuiser et ce qui devait être une course contre la montre devient une lente et ridicule pâle copie d’un poliziottesco.
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This movie fucks.
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This was unhinged but I also feel like I’ve seen it before. Nice colour grading !!
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CClaudio Flores 7 月 31, 2026
Wrong movie
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cried
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It has that gross mid-2000s grainy, digital look that we had to endure for a decade. I forgot just how much happens in this movie – there’s way too many subplots/twists and turns – but it manages to maintain a surprising level of energy throughout.
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odeio o paul walker
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One of the best horror sequences ever
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ooh this was good! proving to myself that the 2000s had the best movies oat. I’m amazed with the entire style of this film, from the cinematography to the editing, and as a fellow editor i really loved every second of this. easily one of, if not the best Paul Walker’s performance (rip), and Teresa was such a badass here (also i was like wth is my sweet Juliet from Lost doing 😭)… the ending felt a bit off to me but nonetheless a great movie!
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First watched: Blockbuster rental in college. I remember thinking it was trying so hard to be cool and dark.
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I don’t normally go for movies like this. My wife was a fan of stuff like The Usual Suspects and Reservoir Dogs, and Pulp Fiction. But I got bored with most mob stories. That said. There’s no bad ass assassin chick. I don’t care about Paul. And even the case summary doesn’t do anything for me. So I don’t know why I picked this up in the first place. I love that it’s a low budget film. I love how…
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English: A nightmarish chase through the criminal underworld: a boy, a murder weapon, corrupt cops, and vicious gangsters. Oh, and a pair of repulsive psychopaths also get involved in Kramer’s thriller fairy tale, whose frantic pace is surpassed only by its unpredictability. The screenplay is bursting with ideas, time is running out, and the cast—led by Paul Walker, Vera Farmiga, Chazz Palminteri, and Karel Roden—performs as if constantly teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown. On top of that,…
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This is the greatest “worst” movie I have ever seen! The editing and direction had me absolutely hallucinating. So much so that I actually want to watch this director’s other films! If anyone is reading this, it’s genuinely a 2 out of 5 but it’s just so badly entertaining that I can’t give it under a 4. I’m also proud to say this featured my home town!
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I do love to see domestic abusers get their comeuppance. RIP Paul this was one of his best.
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Honestly the only time I’d say suicide is probably the kids best option now jesus pyar trauma 3/10
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Oleg was clutch and not clutch at the same time especially against pimp Lester
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This movie is so fucking trashy, but it goes. Paul Walker does surprisingly well. The movie is constantly trying to push the edge further and further and it never slows down. Also. What the fuck is up with that pedophile goblin?!?
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now who edited this 😭
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I don’t know why I thought this was a good movie. 2000’s era crash zooms. Paul Walker over acting. I once thought this was his best performance! If you’re looking for Epstein vengeance there’s a scene in here for you. Dumb Oleg.
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فلم راقي طريقة مال اخراج مالته غريبه وحلوه
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king baya iyi oynamış
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those kids have some serious trauma
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Un thriller d’action qui prend au tripes on ne s’ennnuis pas une seconde
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if this happened in 2026 the kid would’ve been flexing the gun on his tiktok story
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this movie was so…weird. like in some scenes you can tell they were kind of trying for a horror sequence and to be fair, it definitely worked. i like just about everything about this movie except the dialogue, it doesn’t sound great but its not so bad i guess. i liked how grainy/gritty the movie looked, the plot twist was pretty cool too, but its not over the top and its not completely bad. 5.5/10
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The intentional griminess and off-putting everything make Running Scared equally exhausting and eye-rolling. The frenetic camera work of a Crank movie mixed with the wince-inducing uber-machismo of a Joe Carnahan film and a couple random story excursions that do nothing but pad the running time and heighten the film’s sense of “edginess.”
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Aksiyonlu ve tırmanan yüksek gerilimli güzel bir film oyunculuklar da çok iyiydi bence
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this was such an insane ride from start to finish i love the way it was filmed like one of those “you wouldn’t pirate a movie, would you?” commercials sooo aggressively early 2000s
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What a crazy Tuesday night! Amirite??
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“I’m a Mack daddy pimp, you know that”
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did not need all the dumbass editing and filters but I remember watching this when I was like 7 or 8 and being absolutely terrified of the scene where he’s tied up in the closet. got so many nightmares from that scene and you just know I didn’t play about stranger danger like that after.
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Find the gun!
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amerikan filmine yakışmıyor o silah tutuşlar o acıyı hissettim bazı şeyler eski yerlerinde daha güzel amerikada makarna yemeyin lan fakirler rus yenge iyiymiş paul düzgün silah tut lan severiz seni sakız sahnesi tek kurtlar vadisinde yokmuş bu polisin ortğı yok mu lan ateş sesi geliyor ve çocuğunla ateş sesine doğru mu koşuyorsun ölüler hikaye anlatmaz al silahı babana götür işte amk 5.kat 602 numaralı odada razors sezone ticket ucuz romana benziyor epstein napıyor acaba bir tanrı yok inansan iyi olur…
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talk about a hidden gem, love a campy mob film & of course paul walker ugh love him
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I have no words to describe what I just witnessed, but I think I mostly loved this?? Paul Walker is absolutely wonderful here, delivering what is easily the best performance of his career. He’s a dramatic tour de force, bringing so much credibility to this ugly, relentless, hardcore gangster adrenaline rush of a film. The only reason this movie works as well as it does is because of him and the complete sincerity with which he commits to such utterly absurd material. This thing is absolutely bonkers. I think my mouth was hanging open for the entire last half hour. Highly recommend
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An unapologetically brutal “all in one night” crime film anchored by perhaps the late Paul Walker’s best performance.
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Sometimes early 2000s me comes out to play, with nonstop frenetic editing, over the top performances, and a subplot that is so TWISTED you have to go to a black light ice rink and get hit in the face with neon pucks and a last minute TWIST to top it. I guarantee I thought this movie was pretty fucking cool when it came out à la Smokin’ Aces and I’ve grown since so now I recognize a lot of the actors and think, how did Wayne Kramer get so much clout, and why am I not watching the insanity that is Smokin’ Aces?
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Não faço ideia de como esse filme é decentemente avaliado em alguns lugares, existem filmes ruins, e existem filmes abaixo dos ruins, esse é um deles.
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oh my goodness, this film is brilliant asf.
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This is kind of a cool movie. It feels like a pretty good b movie, which when done right can be pretty awesome in a low budget way. Honestly I am only interested in this because of Paul Walker. He is very committed and does a great job with his character. The cast is actually pretty good with several well known actors. The editing is unique but does work overall. I think this movie is underrated/underappreciated and will have a following as time goes on.
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A parte da casa me deixa enojada até hoje… filme muitoooo booommm
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More gruesome in all kind of aspects I did not expect, especially near the end.
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Nunca pensei que levaria o Paul Walker a serio.
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Avec l’intéressant Lady Chance, Wayne Kramer avait démontré sa capacité, à partir d’un postulat scénaristique de base, à développer des personnages complexes et attachants. Son deuxième film, La Peur au ventre, fonctionne sur le même principe. Wayne Kramer réalise un polar extrêmement stylisé, filmant par exemple ses scènes d’action en utilisant un étonnant principe de flash-back instantané. Jamais sa mise en scène ne se veut naturaliste, La Peur au ventre étant conçu comme un tour de grand-huit où le spectateur…
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Kinda goofy movie plus that kid was a terrible actor
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The level of irritation I felt during the first third of this movie tricked me into thinking I wasn’t into it… Think. Again.
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3.45/5 ✨ Why are the only people who say the N-word in this white people, and why are they calling other white people the N-word? 😭 literally make it make sense Other than that, solid mob movie. I always wanna see Paul Walker, and Vera Farmiga was great in this.
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TAKK. Vera jprdl🧎♀️. Cały czas coś sie dzieje. Nie spodziewałam sie ze takie dobre
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Outside of that ridiculous accent, Paul Walker could actually act and this movie is proof.
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Some movies are good. This one has Vera Farmiga. Same thing
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This might be the single worst movie I’ve ever seen. It’s not even so bad it’s funny. It doesn’t have a low budget, it doesn’t have amateur actors. It’s genuinely insulting. I would give it zero stars but letterboxd doesn’t show that. This excuse of a film has extremely dark topics and it handles them probably in the worst way I’ve ever seen. It’s an insult to the people that actually go through those things. No point in talking about…
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Extremamente anticoncepcional, nada teria acontecido se não tivesse crianças ali.
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Frantic is the best way to describe this movie- in both positive and negative ways. It’s an absolutely panicked film that has small pockets of calm to catch your breath before tossing you right back into the madness. This is amplified by the editing which is very of its times and extremely high energy. It’s like if you took the speed and motion of an Edgar Wright production but gave it some speed you found in the alley. I don’t…
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High kinetic movie in a similar vein to Snatch or Crank except with Paul walker. Basic plot Is quite similar to The Departed. Fun but doesn’t really do anything particularly well.
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Aalitorbati 7 月 4, 2026
the only plot device in this movie was guns cocking
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Genuinely some of the worst editing I’ve ever seen, but peel back the dated schlock and it’s a decent crime thriller with a cool story.
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I went from watching the 1974 political thriller The Parallax View to this, under the category “Reddit recommended twisty thrillers”. Quite the whiplash! This movie is so cranked up, action-packed, overstuffed, silly, pungent. Like a loud stinky cheese I keep reaching for. I really got onboard by the halfway point. There are some scenes / imagery in this that will definitely stick in the memory. When the movie was over, I actually played it again and enjoyed that first half much more
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كسم روسيا كلها
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i mean wow. so much going on here 😭😭 it was so crazy like oh my god that couple who was killing kids was creepy af. carla limbrey what are you doing here? and paul walker my king is playing a cop again lol love him tho
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I don’t think they could add any more plot twists if they tried. Great movie
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Paul walker icin izledim. Dehset basladi gercekten bi an hayatimin filmini izlicegimi sanmistim ama cok fazla gereksiz sahne vardi. hikayeyi gereksiz bolduler gibi geldi. biraz karisikti beklentimi karsilamadi ama yine de iyiydi begendim
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Frenetic New Jersey-set grimm-fairytale with an absolutely furious performance by Paul Walker as mob-guy, Joey Gazelle, tasked to get rid of a pistol used to kill a dirty cop. When the gun goes missing in the worst circumstances possible, Walker spends the night turning the city upside down to find it. A bruised colour-palette, lunatic camera-work and Vera Farmiga killing it, RUNNING SCARED’s cult status is wholly deserved.
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beautiful, an adrenaline-fuelled thrill ride like few others, and Paul Walker is truly amazing. had so much fun with this one, despite definitely being heavier and much darker than what you would probably except from an action thriller starring PW. 4/5 ❤️
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Literally W H A T??
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Cchaselrb 6 月 28, 2026
fantastic film for Father’s Day
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terrifying
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Lembro de ter visto esse na TV quando mlk e ter achado um filmazo. E revisitando envelheceu muito bem. Direção muito foda com ótimas transições. Saudade Paul Walker…
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Динамичный и незамысловатый триллер с бешеным Полом Уокером. Концовка, правда, показалась немного сумбурной
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Rrae 6 月 27, 2026
This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen I couldn’t fucking breathe half the time. Just a very hyperstylized nasty unpleasant movie I kind of love it. This is one of my moms favorite movies
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demented ass flick
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one of the sauciest intros to a movie i’ve seen then loses it all instantly
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I had seen this before many years ago and I had still the idea that it was a great movie. Very dark with some light funny parts, it really is a hidden gem. Extremely fast paced but with no ends loose and not the typical Hollywood parts including some hints on crimes barely covered in these movies. Farmiga also does it well and has some nice tights
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Was little bit adrenalinkick and retarded, but it was good entertainment at all..
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It was a good movie, and I enjoyed it, but not as much as I thought I would. I think I definitely went into it with different expectations, but I wasn’t necessarily “let down”. I likely would have enjoyed this film more if there was a different director because I felt it had a lot of potential, but the overall execution didn’t match my taste.
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Die Spinal Tap Wertung [1 bis 11] = 7,9 Die emotionale Wertung [0 bis 10] = 5,5 Die Wertung für das Grübeln [0 bis 10] = 5,0 Die besondere Wertung [0 bis 10] = 6,5 Die spannende Wertung [0 bis 10] = 7,5 Und wie war die Story? [0 bis 10] = 7,0 Nochmal schauen? [ja/nein] = nein Lieblingsfilm? [ja/nein] = nein Großartig? [ja/nein] = nein Bewertung [0 bis 10] = 6,65 Sterne [0 bis 5] = 3,33 Punkte = 690
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Wwitchvnts 12 月 1, 2009
back in the 2000s i was also part of a roleplaying forum with a x-men theme. cameron bright was in x-men, so naturally, i wanted him as a faceclaim for an oc. before twitter and instagram, you’d go to fansites for an actor’s photos; i saw screenshots of this movie there and decided to watch it, even though i didn’t know anything about it, and watch it i did – in atrocious quality, probably on megaupload or something like it.…
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I was blown away by the fast-paced style right from the very first minutes. What follows is a wildly exciting and fast-paced journey through the night in search of a murder weapon, featuring remarkable supporting characters and plot twists. The camera shots and editing are fun and the look of the film is gritty, just like the hood and the folks in it. Paul Walker as a petty criminal and Verga Farmiga as his wife really stand out. But the…
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- Synopsis
- A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things spiral out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.
- Director
- Wayne Kramer
- Writer
- Wayne Kramer
- Studio
- True Grit Productions, International Production Company, Pierce/Williams Entertainment, Zero Gravity Management
- Country
- Germany, USA
- Language
- English, Russian
- Year
- 2006
- Runtime
- 122 mins
- UK06 Jan 2006
- USA24 Feb 2006
- France01 Mar 2006
- Russia16 Mar 2006
- Romania17 Mar 2006
- Singapore23 Mar 2006
- Taiwan24 Mar 2006
- Netherlands30 Mar 2006
- Denmark31 Mar 2006
- Australia13 Apr 2006
- Iceland14 Apr 2006
- Greece20 Apr 2006
- Finland21 Apr 2006
- Portugal27 Apr 2006
- Sweden28 Apr 2006
- Belgium10 May 2006
- Austria19 May 2006
- South Korea08 Jun 2006
- Argentina24 Aug 2006
- Spain20 Oct 2006
- Mexico01 Dec 2006
- Hungary26 Apr 2007
- Panama21 Sep 2007
- Japan11 Oct 2008
- Netherlands26 Oct 2006
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