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In this action thriller based on an early story by Stephen King, Los Angeles in the year 2017 has become a police state in the wake of the global economy's total collapse. All forms of entertainment are government controlled, and the most popular show on television is an elaborate game show in which convicted criminals are given a chance to escape by running through a gauntlet of brutal killers known as "Stalkers." Anyone who survives is given their freedom and a condominium in Hawaii, so when a wrongly accused citizen (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is chosen as a contestant, all hell breaks loose. Cheesy sets and a slimy role for game-show host Richard Dawson make this violent mess of mayhem a candidate for guilty pleasure; it is the kind of movie that truly devoted Arnold fans will want to watch more than once. And check those credits--choreography by Paula Abdul! --Jeff Shannon
Not a classic , but takes its idea further than expected
The idea behind this film is a good one and seems more relevant nowadays , what with all the 'reality' shows on TV , which shows how far we've gone backward . Maybe they'll stop showing the news as it will just get in the way of those shows .
Does society love violence when it is structured and organised ?
The film deals with this idea and delivers on the action front .
I like the dark humor in it .
Enjoy it for what it is - there is a Special Edition DVD available also .
A Classic!
First off, I think it's funny one of the other reviewers mentioned the host being a forerunner for wrestler Vince McMahon. Isn't the host Family Feud's lovable Englishman Richard Dawson?
In any case, I haven't seen this movie in years but I remember loving every bit of it. From the cheesy one-liners that we've come to expect from Schwarzenegger in all of his movies to the slight possibility that we may use the death penalty for entertainment purposes in the future, it's very easy to look past the bad scripting and almost-as-bad casting and just have fun with the movie. The movie probably won't scare you or thrill you like the Stephen King book it was adapted from, but it will certainly entertain you. For that reason, I'm looking past any of its drawbacks and giving it five stars.
Don't Run From This One
The U.S. has become a totalitarian society. Justice is gone and law is served with an iron fist. Ben Richards (Arnie) tries to prevent a massacre and instead is blamed for it through media manipulation. After being recaptured from a prison break Richards is pressured to appear on the top rated TV show, Running Man. Richards has to fight his way through the labyrinth while fighting stalkers and helping an underground resistance group.
This science fiction blockbuster from 1990 began its production life as a very different movie than the one that was released. An adaptation of the Philip K. Dick short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," Total Recall was originally conceived of with Richard Dreyfuss starring as a Walter Mitty-like character who experiences a variety of artificially induced fantasies. The movie we know is a mega-budget action epic set on Mars. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a normal working man who discovers that his entire reality has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Oscar-winning special effects and violent action propel the twisting plot, in which Arnold manipulates his manipulators in a world of dazzling high technology. Director Paul Verhoeven (Robocop)... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Arnold Schwarzenegger - Sharon Stone - Michael Ironside Director(s): Paul Verhoeven DVD Release Date: Released the 21 May 2002 This item is currently not available.
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A massively underrated action thriller that kept Arnold Schwarzenegger occupied between mid-'80s blockbusters, Commando may be one of the last shoot-out films ever to have real characters in it. Not, of course, that they're anything other than stereotypes, but they're painted with such detailed, positive strokes that it's impossible not to relate to them. Arnie plays a retired military special-ops officer whose daughter (played with an expert balance of cute/feisty by Alyssa Milano) is kidnapped by the baddest of bad guys, who'll only hand her back as and when he's assassinated a tiresome banana-republic president on their behalf. Needless to say, Arnie is deeply annoyed by this, rescues the moppet single-handed amid more bullets and explosions than you can shake a stuntman's pay... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Arnold Schwarzenegger - Rae Dawn Chong Director(s): Mark L. Lester DVD Release Date: Released the 18 December 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Rambo meets Alien in this terrific science-fiction thriller from 1987, directed by John McTiernan just a year before Die Hard made him Hollywood's most sought-after director of action-packed blockbusters. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite squad of U.S. Army commandos to a remote region of South American jungle, where they've been assigned to search for South American officials who've been kidnapped by terrorists. Instead they find a bunch of skinned corpses hanging from the trees and realize that they're now facing a mysterious and much deadlier threat. As the squad is picked off one by one, Arnold finds himself pitted against a hideous alien creature that's heavily armed and wearing a spacesuit enabling the creature to render itself invisible. The title says it... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Arnold Schwarzenegger - Carl Weathers - Kevin Peter Hall Director(s): John McTiernan DVD Release Date: Released the 10 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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After scoring a hit with the Eddie Murphy-Nick Nolte cop thriller 48 Hours, director Walter Hill returned to the buddy formula with this half-ridiculous, half-invigorating action flick about humorless Russian cop Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger). He follows a drug dealer from Moscow to Chicago, where he's matched up with city cop Art Ridzik (James Belushi), whose work ethic is considerably more relaxed. Most of the humor revolves around Danko's grumpy reaction to good ol' American capitalism, while Ridzik urges him to chill out. Red Heat is not bad as action comedies go, but only if you get into the absurd spirit of this predictable fare, in which the unlikely buddies get to wisecrack and act casually while mayhem erupts everywhere they go. Incidentally, Red Heat... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Arnold Schwarzenegger - James Belushi Director(s): Walter Hill DVD Release Date: Released the 07 September 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A by-the-numbers action flick featuring a stern Arnold Schwarzenegger, Raw Deal has all the traditional traits of the genre. Schwarzenegger is a disgraced former FBI agent who winds up as sheriff of a backwater Southern town. He is given a chance to reclaim his job when the head of the Bureau offers him reinstatement if he'll go undercover to capture the mob boss responsible for killing his son. Schwarzenegger must get close enough to gain the trust of the gangster without being discovered as a mole, while gathering enough evidence to take him down. One of Schwarzenegger's early films, in which he honed his persona, Raw Deal offers up the usual quotient of gun battles and tough talk, with a trace of self-deprecating humor from its star, making it reasonably worthwhile... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Arnold Schwarzenegger Director(s): John Irvin DVD Release Date: Released the 03 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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