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Running Scared <\/i><\/b>(2006)<\/p>\n
Director:\u00a0 Wayne Kramer<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: Wayne Kramer<\/strong><\/p>\n Stars: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Chazz Palminteri, Vera Farmiga, Karel Roden, Johnny Messner, Ivana Milicevic, Michael Cudlitz, Bruce Altman, Arthur J. Nascarella, John Noble, Idalis DeLeon, David Warshofsky, Jim Tooey, Thomas Rosales Jr. <\/strong>and Elizabeth Mitchell<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline: Its Find The Gun, Or Death…<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n When a drug deal goes bad, a shootout occurs.\u00a0 Several people are killed.\u00a0 Tommy Perello and his crew are the only survivors.\u00a0 Perello orders Joey Gazelle, an up-and-comer, to get rid of the guns his gang used in the drug deal.<\/p>\n Joey takes the guns, but heads home before ditching the weapons.\u00a0 Once home, Joey hides the arms in the basement.\u00a0 Joey doesn’t realize that his son Nicky and Nicky’s friend from next door, Oleg, saw where the weapons were hidden.\u00a0 Oleg steals one of the revolvers.<\/p>\n As soon as Oleg gets home his abusive stepfather, Anzor, starts in.\u00a0 Oleg has had enough and shoots his stepdad.\u00a0 Oleg runs off taking the gun with him.<\/p>\n Hearing the shot, Joey next door. Anzor is wounded. He explains Oleg shot him.\u00a0 Joey realizes that Oleg used a gun that Joey was supposed to have ditched.\u00a0 That gun will link Joey and Perello’s crew to the drug deal’s multiple murders.<\/p>\n The police will be out in full force looking for Oleg.\u00a0 Joey’s got to find Oleg before the cops.\u00a0 If they find Oleg first, Joey and his crime partners will get life in prison.\u00a0 If they’re lucky.\u00a0 If Tommy Perello or the crew discover what happened, the end result will be even worse.<\/p>\n Oleg is on the move.\u00a0 So is Joey.\u00a0 Both are running scared.<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Running Scared<\/em> has more twists than a rollercoaster. The movie starts in the middle of a drug deal that suddenly goes bad. An insane shootout takes place and we\u2019re off an running. Along the way we\u2019ll meet drug dealers, pimps, crooked cops, child molesters, and Russian mobsters.<\/p>\n The movie maintains momentum as Joey [Paul Walker] attempts to retrieve a stolen gun used in a mob killing. Then finds himself on a mission to save a kid.<\/p>\n Paul Walker does a fine job in the starring role.\u00a0 The supporting cast is first rate: Chazz Palminteri, Vera Farmiga, Michael Cudlitz, Arthur J. Nascarella, John Noble, Elizabeth Mitchell, Bruce Altman and David Warshofsky shine.<\/p>\n Writer\/director Wayne Kramer is a talent to keep an eye on.\u00a0 His direction of the action scenes is inventive.\u00a0 His story doesn’t take us on the expected journey.\u00a0 Kudos to him.<\/p>\n Paul Walker’s brother appears in the scene retracing the path of a bullet and Walker’s character is shown in both houses.\u00a0 It is actually Paul’s brother sitting at the kitchen table.<\/p>\n Running Scared<\/em> is an underrated gem.<\/p>\n Running Scared (2006) <\/i><\/b>rates 5 of 5 stars<\/span> Running Scared (2006) Director:\u00a0 Wayne Kramer Screenplay: Wayne Kramer Stars: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Chazz Palminteri, Vera Farmiga, Karel Roden,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39497,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39492\/revisions\/39497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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