Rotten
With audiences jaded by the usual sex and splatter, do the filmmakers have no qualms about juicing up proceedings with edgy but troubling material which clearly needs more conscientious handling? Apparently not.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Running Scared
Every bullet leaves a trail.
2006 · 2h 2m · R
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Wayne Kramer
Overview
A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things spiral out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.
Director and cast
- Wayne Kramer Director
- Paul Walker as Joey Gazelle
- Cameron Bright as Oleg Yugorsky
- Vera Farmiga as Teresa Gazelle
- Chazz Palminteri as Detective Rydell
- Karel Roden as Anzor Yugorsky
- Johnny Messner as Tommy 'Tombs' Perello
- Ivana Miličević as Mila Yugorsky
- Alex Neuberger as Nicky Gazelle
- Michael Cudlitz as Sal "Gummy Bear" Franzone
- Bruce Altman as Dez
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
41%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Hap Erstein, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fresh
The end result of all these cross-mob confrontations is an orgy of nihilistic violence that is curiously exhilarating, I am almost ashamed to say.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten
It says something when the most sympathetic character is a kid who shoots his dad with a stolen pistol.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
Rotten
It's ugly and it's vile and it's disgusting and it's creepy and it just got tiresome.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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