Running Scared

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Anyone else seen this movie? I just went out and caught it tonight - really good movie, especially if you liked Training Day and stuff like that.

I was interested in renting the DVD. I wouldn't see it in theaters in case the violence got too rough for me and I wanted to turn it off--though I did watch the first six minutes online, and liked the crazy and intense direction/editing style despite being bothered by all the blood. The feel very much reminded me of one of my favorite games, "Max Payne." However, I read a review of it that said it had a lot of violence against kids in it, and that always bothers me quite a bit (though I did adore the disturbing but very-moving "Unleashed," which had just a bit of it in a flashback sequence), so I probably won't wind up seeing it at all.

I think, however, that this movie is Paul Walker's "Butterfly Effect." Like The Kutcher(TM) was with that film, Walker is viewed mainly as wooden "actor" who's in a lot of crappy movies, but then he comes out with a movie so crazy and messed up that you have to take him seriously for once.

You don't really see any violence against kids in the movie but, at least from the bad guys you see the threat hanging there a lot. Oh yeah, and I don't wanna spoil the story but Paul Walker's wife does something that everyone with kids would wanna high-five her on (its one of those scenes where you've got people who are just about the most maxed-out pieces of work you can imagine to that end).