The Running Man (Special Edition)
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Actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura, Jim Brown, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet KottoBrand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
Published: 2004-03-01
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Republic Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Running Man (Special Edition)
Movie Review: It hits the spot
Summary: 5 Stars
The Running Man (1987) is my favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Based on the novel by Stephen King, it is an action-packed futuristic thriller with suspense, drama, humor, and horror. Combine these elements and you've got a movie that holds your attention. In the year 2019 the world economy has collapsed and television is ruling the lives of the American people. A top-rated game show called The Running Man rules the airwaves with its host Damon Killian (Richard Dawson from Family Feud). The show lets convicts have a shot at receiving pardons for their crimes if they can defeat the "stalkers" of the game show who are out to kill them. These stalkers are heavily armed with unique novelty weapons. The stalkers are Subzero with his sharp hockey sticks and exploding pucks; Buzzsaw with his heavy duty chainsaw and motorcycle; Dynamo with his dose of lightning bolt electricity; and Fireball (Jim Brown) with his flame throwing gun.
Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has been wrongly convicted of what is known as The Bakersfield (California) Massacre. He didn't shoot anybody. He was framed. He goes to prison and escapes with the help of some fellow inmates. Richards gets tangled up with a young woman named Amber (Maria Conchita Alonso) soon afterward, and the two are at an airport supposedly going on a vacation. Richards is accused of kidnapping her and he is captured a short time later. It is then that he is offered the opportunity to receive a full pardon through The Running Man game show - if he can defeat Killian's stalkers on live TV. Richards' two prison buddies are put on the game show to get chances at pardons. Even Amber is put on the show (after the show made up lies about her to justify her appearance on the show). Can these four contestants escape and defeat Killian's stalkers?
Richards and his fellow contestants meander through the game zone, which is among the ruins of a 1997 earthquake in Los Angeles. Richards takes on the stalkers and stuns the TV audience with his skills and prowess and kills three of the four. The other one he let go because, as he put it, he was "a helpless human being." Soon the audience starts rooting for and betting on Richards instead of the stalkers. Things get so humiliating for Killian that a retired stalker-turned-announcer, Captain Freedom (Jesse Ventura) is forced to come out of retirement to fight Ben Richards and Amber. Captain Freedom doesn't want to come out of retirement, so they rig a computerized fake video that shows him killing Richards and Amber, even though both of them are alive and actually watching this fake "live" coverage on TV. The ending of the movie has Richards giving Killian a taste of his own medicine, sending him on the same long ride into the game zone that he himself took at the top of the show. That's the irony.
Other people that appear in this movie are Mick Fleetwood and Dweezil Zappa.
If you want to see a really good action movie, then see this movie. It is one of Schwarzenegger's best performances. Highly recommended.
Summary of The Running Man (Special Edition)
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/20/2007 Rating: RSimilar DVD Movies
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