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Rating:  - great acting and nice plot.
Tom Sellect is an actor who has many faces. I especially like him in westerns, but he always gives any script his all. He did in Runaway
Susan`
Rating:  - RUNAWAY IS A RUNAWAY HIT!
RUNAWAY IS ONE OF THOSE GREAT MOVIES THAT SEEM TO
GET OVERLOOKED OR THE CRITICS HATE IT. THE STORY
IS WELL WRITTEN AND ACTED AND THE SPECIAL EFFECTS
ARE GREAT. TOM SELLECK AND GENE SIMMONS [YES THE
MAN FROM KISS] ARE BOTH EXCELLENT AND PLAY THE
PARTS PERFECTLY WITH A LITTLE COMEDY THROWN IN
THIS IS A WINNER! IF YOU LIKE SCI-FI ACTION MOVIES
THEN I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS. CHECK OUT DEAD OR
ALIVE WITH SIMMONS AND RUTGER HAUER ALSO.
Rating: - A fun 80's sci-fi drama; a solid "B"
This is a really fun film and Michael Crichton deserves a lot of credit, seeing as he both wrote and directed it: the pacing is good and the story is well-conceptualized and original in placing the viewer convincingly into a world of the near-future where robots are common place and there is a division of the police department that handles related robot malfunctions. Overall, the film (mainly) works because all of its other elements are solid as well (apart from some shoddy writing in the middle of the film [likely to ratchet up the action-quotient] and Joey Cramer's acting!): Jerry Goldsmith provides an excellent score, Gene Simmons plays a convincing bad guy, Tom Selleck makes for a likeable hero, Cynthia Rhodes is gorgeous, and G. W. Bailey (of Police Academy fame) is perfect as Selleck's angry boss.
Rating: - A Creative, Well Scripted Sci-Fi Thriller
You know how mechanical things go awry? Well, in the future, when a robot becomes a "runaway", who do you turn to? Jack Ramsey (Tom Selleck) and his division of the police department.
There are great gizmos in this sci-fi story, such as electronic spiders and bullets that have your name on it. Though, dealing with the latter, a newspaper had fun pointing out those bullets were so slow and weak that a restaurant table could provide protection.
Michael Crichton did a good job directing it, though he inserted one bit on reincarnation that did not add anything to the story (you should expect a fundamentalist like myself to point that out). Cynthia Rhodes played one of my all time favorite love interests. Gene Simmons started off low key, but by the end of the movie, you could easily picture him with his demonic makeup.
I really enjoyed this movie, and would highly recommend it.
Rating: - great all time classic
Runaway is a great classicly old film the robotics are dated but that is to be expected considering its made in 1984!, It still doesn't stop the fact its definately one for the collection? I couldn't help but enjoy the film the first time i watched it or the last!
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