The Movie: Running Scared, directed by Wayne Kramer
Recommendation: The Internet!
Reason: I've read that this movie comes highly recommended as an action movie and as a tense drama.
This movie is what Crank should have been. Though Crank was solid, it lagged in parts. Running Scared does no such thing. The movie is a freaked out neo-noir fairy tale with a breakneck pace that combines horror, fantasy and other elements into a demented morality tale about shades of grey from dark to light. I'm not kidding on this. Running Scared is FAST.
Paul Walker is deadpan, but believable as Joey Gazelle, a low-level wiseguy with a wife and a kid. When he's given a gun to dispose of...well, that's how this whole thing starts. Where it goes from there is unexpected to say the least. It ignores the limits of sanity and breaks out the big guns, scrambling from one confrontation to the next. No one is safe, either-every primary cast member, from Gazelle's wife and son to his mob connections gets involved.
See it. You might not agree with me on how good it really is, but I can honestly say this movie pushes the limit the way recent action movies have been trying to. It succeeds. It does well.
-176/365 down, 189/365 to go
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