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'Running Scared' is simply running on empty
by Hap Erstein

Violence does not get much more gratuitous than in the artfully photographed, blood-spattered gore in Running Scared, a sick tale of gang warfare with children caught in the cross hairs. Presumably patterned after Robert Rodriguez's Sin City, but substantially more graphic, there is surely an audience for this empty brutality, but you would not want to know anyone to whom this picture appeals. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
For more than a decade Joey Gazelle has successfully juggled his roles as a family man and a low-level mobster in Grimley, N.J. However, when Joey ignores the mob's explicit instructions to dispose of a gun used in the fatal shooting of a corrupt cop, he puts his entire family in danger.

FILM FACTS ...

New Line Cinema

'Running Scared'

Director: Wayne Kramer
Starring: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga, Karel Roden, Johnny Messner
Run time: 122 minutes
Release date: Feb. 24, 2006
Rating: R for pervasive strong brutal violence and language, sexuality and drug content.
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READ THE REVIEW

The Palm Beach Post: D
"Only the most rabid fans are likely to be fully satisfied, but this is not the embarrassment of the recent installments."