Excessive force

Levi 2022-03-22 09:01:53

I guess the director must have figured out what the screenwriter meant to make this film compact and powerful, full of dangers. Therefore, regardless of the far-fetched storyline, I directed the actors to be hysterical and hoarse in front of the camera again and again. I was exhausted from watching it...

Introducing the person I watched this film, has a distinct personality and an irresistible character, this film also has the following following him. standard... The sexiness

of standard: baldness on the chest, exposed thongs, irresistible miniskirts, hormonal bursts;

Prostitutes have sincerity, gangsters have conscience, police have laws...

Standard's hysteria: shooting with guns, ramming cars, shouting at people, holding privates...

The end of standard: good people who are wrong are dead, there are The wrong bad guy repented, the perfect hero left, the downright bad guy died.

As an actor, whatever he acts like, the play just flows out like that. Extruded, tender.

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Extended Reading
  • Myrna 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    The plot is too compact. Paul Walker is handsome, Farmiga is beautiful, and Walter, an Italian descendant, can actually play the Russian Mafia, which is awkward to watch.

  • Marvin 2022-04-23 07:02:16

    All the bad guys are rewarded, all the good guys are saved

Running Scared quotes

  • Edele: [as Teresa is checking the strange apartment in search of Oleg] Well, it's all about the children, and as you can see, there's no Oleg.

    [pause]

    Edele: I really hope that you find him.

    [pause]

    Edele: You hear too many stories these days. God only knows if it were our children...

    Teresa Gazelle: [after Teresa is led out of the door, she starts barging in] Where are your children's photographs?

    Edele: [politely] Excuse me?

    Teresa Gazelle: No, photographs. Photographs. If they were your children, you would have at least one photograph somewhere in this apartment...

    Edele: This is ridiculous! We only just moved into this place. Everything's in storage.

    [pause]

    Edele: Now, I really must ask you to leave! I INSIST!

    Teresa Gazelle: [while running to the video room] It's too much. It's like some kind of a lure!

    Dez: You're making a mistake...

    Edele: Tell her to leave, Dez...

    Dez: Ma'am, if you don't leave right now, I am calling the police!

    Teresa Gazelle: Call them, CALL THEM! And be sure to mention that you've got two abducted children in the next room! Two children who don't appear in any photographs in this house...

    Edele: [Walks up to Teresa] How dare you suggest that we...

    Teresa Gazelle: [Teresa suddently points a gun to Edele and Dez] Where's the boy?

    Teresa Gazelle: [pause]

    [screaming]

    Teresa Gazelle: WHERE IS HE?

  • Teresa Gazelle: [after she revives Oleg and sends him out of the house, she points her gun at Dez] Move over. Get out of his way!

    Dez: [as Oleg walks out of the room] You know I've got a safe in the bedroom. There's $100,000 in cash there in diamonds. All you have to do is take the boy and walk away!

    Teresa Gazelle: [Teresa observes the hidden closet where obscene child pornography is shown along with body bags and surgical knives] Oh my God... Oh my God!

    [Teresa feels the plastic floor]

    Teresa Gazelle: Oh my God... Oh my God.

    [pause]

    Teresa Gazelle: Oh, you sick fucks!

    Dez: [stutters nervously] You're right, we are. We're sick. We are! This is really great, this is going to help us...

    Teresa Gazelle: Give me your phone...

    Dez: Please. Yeah!

    [Dez hands over Teresa his cell phone]

    Edele: What're you doing?

    911 Dispatcher: She wants the phone...

    911 Dispatcher: [Teresa grabs the phone and dials 911] 911. What is the nature of your emergency?

    Teresa Gazelle: I just heard shooting across the hall. 1456 Owin's Park Lane.

    911 Dispatcher: What is your name, ma'am?

    [Teresa hangs up]

    Edele: You're not serious...

    [Teresa lifts up her gun and shoots them both]