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Running Scared (1986)

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Reviews Counted:15

Fresh:7

Rotten:8

Average Rating:4.8/10

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: After toiling through years of freezing winters, two undercover cops plan to leave Chicago and retire to a lush tropical island -- if they can only make it through their last month of service. But... After toiling through years of freezing winters, two undercover cops plan to leave Chicago and retire to a lush tropical island -- if they can only make it through their last month of service. But Ray and Danny may have trouble reaching their paradise. A ruthless Latino drug lord wants the wisecracking duo dead, and it sometimes seems that half the city is in on the hit. An apocalyptic shootout under the smooth glass exterior of the Illinois State Building ends the bloody conflict with an exclamation point. [More]

Starring: Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer, Darlanne Fluegel

Starring: Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer, Darlanne Fluegel, Joe Pantoliano, Dan Hedaya

Director: Peter Hyams

Director: Peter Hyams

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Oct 2, 2001

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Jonathan R. Perry
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Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)
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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

You suspect you're in for a violent film when it opens with several balaclava-faced men in black bursting in on a group of thugs whose conversation is limited to constructions around the words ****** or whore. With "Running Scared " your suspicions would

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03/20/06
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

Has all the logic and transitional ease of a Pokémon-style card game played by 5-year-olds who don't understand the rules, so they make up their own as they go.

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02/23/06
Phil Villarreal
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01/07/06
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01/07/06
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

Overblown, ultra-violent and frequently stupid, yet perversely entertaining with it

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01/07/06
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Despite strong performances and an intriguing idea, it's clumsily overwritten, straining badly to be a complex thriller.

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12/31/05
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

A breezily entertaining buddy-cop movie with too much cutesy shtick for its own good. Gregory Hines is OK, but Billy Crystal is never believable as a Chicago cop.

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10/20/05
Chuck O'Leary
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07/04/05
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Jules Brenner
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02/27/04
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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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Pre-Lethal Weapon mid-80s buddy flick before

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02/18/03
Kevin Fiddler
Kevin Fiddler
Henderson Home News (Henderson, NV)

Relentlessly competent in a TBS Saturday afternoon kind of way.

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01/24/03
Rob Vaux
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium

Crystal and Hines are a great double act. Laughs aplenty.

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09/18/02
Clint Morris
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Moviehole

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07/29/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The most appealing thing about this movie is the charisma and good humour delivered by the two leads.

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11/06/01
Scott Weinberg
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Apollo Guide

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