Running Scared Movie Review 2006

Frenetic actioner has small-time hood Joe (Walker) charged with disposing of a gun for his Mob cronies after a drug deal gone bad. The reason it went bad is that some crooked cops crashed the party and a few of them ended up dead. When a neighbor kid takes the gun and uses it to shoot his Russian mob-affiliated, abusive stepdad, things go sideways for everyone in a big hurry. Joe must race the clock, the cops, his associates, and the Russians to find the kid and the gun, both of which change hands with astonishing regularity over the course of the night. What this one lacks in cohesion and plausibility, it makes up for in pacing (which rarely slackens) and urgency.

Distribution

Not Yet Released

Available on DVD
Running time 122 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Action-Thriller, Crime Drama, Kidnapped!, Organized Crime, Stepparents, Homicide, Pornography, Child Abuse, Undercover Cops

Screenplay

Wayne Kramer

Cast

Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga, Karel Roden, Johnny Messner, Ivana Milicevic, Chazz Palminteri, Alex Neuberger, Michael Cudlitz, Bruce Altman, Elizabeth Mitchell, Arthur J. Nascarelli, John Noble, David Warshofsky, Idalis DeLeon

Cinematography

James Whitaker

Director

Wayne Kramer

Music

Mark Isham

Other

T.J. O'Mara, Brian Ross, Arthur Coburn, Kristen M. Burke, Toby Corbett

Producer

Michael Pierce, Brett Ratner, Sammy Lee, Media 8 Entertainment, True Grit Production, VIP Medienfonds 1 & 2, MDP Filmproduktion, New Line Cinema