Crimson Screens is "Running Scared"...
Crimson Screens is "Running Scared"...
Ok, Paul Walker, he's a seemingly cool dude. He's been in a lot of moderately successful movies over the past ten years or so. Hollywood has been trying to make him the next big action star for some time. Most of those attempts didn't really work out. Then he chose to do this, a movie which in my opinion, is his best work so far.
He plays a member of a gang, and after a shooting, he is given the simple task to get rid of a gun. Well, he doesn't do it fast enough and a kid gets a hold of the gun and things quickly spiral out of control.
The acting in this is superb, especially from Paul Walker. He drops the pretty boy routine and does quite a good job as a caring father. I'm telling you, great stuff here.
The movie opens and closes with two spectacular shoot outs. Heads explode, crotches are shot, with bullets and bodies everywhere. There is also random violence, to a lesser extent, spread throughout the movie. Our hero even takes multiple hockey pucks to the head near the end, in the most painful scene I can recall seeing in a long time. There is no shortage of blood here, so if that's what you are looking for, then you have found it here.
This movie deals a lot with the seedier side of life, hookers and pimp and drug dealers and gangsters and I think it carries across the dirty feeling quite well. Almost every character is a degenerate or a scumbag in some way or another and the movie does a fantastic job of showing it.
There is a scene a little over halfway through, that takes place in the house of two parents and it's in their colorful house where something shady might be going on, and let me tell you, that is by far the most surreal thing I've seen in a long time. Once you see it, you will know what I'm talking about.
Ok, this movie is well acted, paced and scripted. What could have been a simple cat and mouse chase for the entire course of the movie, is really a cat and mouse chase with a lot of cool twists and turns and surprises to keep you completely interested until the end of the movie. I give it an A+
Ok, Paul Walker, he's a seemingly cool dude. He's been in a lot of moderately successful movies over the past ten years or so. Hollywood has been trying to make him the next big action star for some time. Most of those attempts didn't really work out. Then he chose to do this, a movie which in my opinion, is his best work so far.
He plays a member of a gang, and after a shooting, he is given the simple task to get rid of a gun. Well, he doesn't do it fast enough and a kid gets a hold of the gun and things quickly spiral out of control.
The acting in this is superb, especially from Paul Walker. He drops the pretty boy routine and does quite a good job as a caring father. I'm telling you, great stuff here.
The movie opens and closes with two spectacular shoot outs. Heads explode, crotches are shot, with bullets and bodies everywhere. There is also random violence, to a lesser extent, spread throughout the movie. Our hero even takes multiple hockey pucks to the head near the end, in the most painful scene I can recall seeing in a long time. There is no shortage of blood here, so if that's what you are looking for, then you have found it here.
This movie deals a lot with the seedier side of life, hookers and pimp and drug dealers and gangsters and I think it carries across the dirty feeling quite well. Almost every character is a degenerate or a scumbag in some way or another and the movie does a fantastic job of showing it.
There is a scene a little over halfway through, that takes place in the house of two parents and it's in their colorful house where something shady might be going on, and let me tell you, that is by far the most surreal thing I've seen in a long time. Once you see it, you will know what I'm talking about.
Ok, this movie is well acted, paced and scripted. What could have been a simple cat and mouse chase for the entire course of the movie, is really a cat and mouse chase with a lot of cool twists and turns and surprises to keep you completely interested until the end of the movie. I give it an A+
posted by Crimson Screens at 7:16 AM
1 Comments:
I was pleasantly surprised by 'Running Scared' as well. Solid performances all around, a smart screenplay, and great visual style. I expect this movie will eventually wind up with a strong cult following and outlast a lot of other recent action movies that made more money at the box office.
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