Running Scared
Directed by Wayne KramerAfter a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things go wrong for Joey after a neighbor kid stole the gun and used it to shoot his abusive father. Now Joey has to find that kid and the gun before the police and the mob do.
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- Doc WormDecember 30, 2025Excellent editing and some great character actors help elevate what should be a muddy mess of film from watchable to pretty damn enjoyable. A fun and tense ride even if its script is a bit contrived.
- FVNKYFLIXDecember 17, 2025Running Scared is what happens when a mobster decides the streets are just another battlefield to dominate, ignoring every moral warning—kind of like Miles Dyson thinking he could build Skynet without consequences. Paul Walker’s character isn’t the T-1000, but he’s got that same blind faith in his own survival, while the city is less a home and more a ticking time bomb. Sarah Connor would be the first to point out the warning signs, but everyone else is too busy chasing power to notice. The T-800 would be reading the map, and the T-1000 would be the only one who could survive the chaos. The movie feels like a real-world version of Terminator 2, except instead of a robot apocalypse, it’s a moral apocalypse. The shootout happens not because of a malfunction, but because the people in charge ignored every red flag, every expert, and every rule in the book. Hasta la vista, baby — because if Dyson, the T-800, the T-1000, Sarah Connor, and the mobsters of Running Scared all argued over who gets the last bullet, John Connor would be the only one left to actually survive the shootout. And honestly, at this point, I’d just let the T-1000 have it. That motherf***er can regenerate, man—let him reload his bullets.
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Running Scared Trivia
Running Scared was released on January 6, 2006.
Running Scared was directed by Wayne Kramer.
Running Scared has a runtime of 2 hr 2 min.
Running Scared was produced by Sammy Lee, Brett Ratner, Michael A. Pierce.
The key characters in Running Scared are Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker), Oleg Yugorsky (Cameron Bright), Teresa Gazelle (Vera Farmiga).
Running Scared is rated R.
Running Scared is an Action, Crime, Drama film.
Running Scared has an audience rating of 7.9 out of 10.