Running Scared follows the story of a .38 caliber snub-nose pistol over an 18-hour period as it works its way from shooting a dirty cop to being used by a 10-year-old to shoot his abusive step-father in the shoulder to being lost in a poker game to ending up in the hands of a pimp.  
Joey Gazzelle is in with the mob on the streets of New York and New Jersey.  When he’s asked to dispose of a hot gun in the river, he instead hides it in his basement, where his son Nicky and his best friend Oleg see him put it there.  But when he Oleg takes the gun and uses it on his abusive stepfather, Joey has to retrieve the bullets and track down the gun before the police can trace it back to him.
Sound simple?  Well, if it was it wouldn’t take over two hours to tell this tale.  Along the way, he has to track down Oleg who ran away with the gun, who keeps running from one troublesome situation to another, from cocaine junkies to a prostitute, from the police to a perverted couple that kidnaps children to play with and then murder.
All the while Gazzelle must work to stay not only one step ahead of the police, but also the mob for whom he was supposed to dispose of the gun as he tries to convince everyone that the kid had used a different gun.
The plot for this movie, which by the way took over half an hour to figure out, was actually quite complex, in an odd sort of way, as they tried to incorporate as many clichés of things that could possibly go wrong as possible, which had the effect of removing any semblance of point to the movie.  Despite this it does seem that writer/director Wayne Kramer can at least tell a story, but tends to go overboard and incorporate too much into it; such as the perverted couple and Oleg’s mother Mila being a former prostitute in Moscow until she got pregnant and ended marrying the man who was supposed to kill her for getting pregnant, even though he proved to be abusive to both her and her son.
The film carries an “R” rating, but almost more properly deserves an “NC-17” rating as it replete with extreme brutal gun violence, near constant profanity, sexuality and drug use.  There’s also a minor racist attitude expressed by the lead character toward the Russians.  Like I said, Kramer has a tendency to go overboard, and that he did with the violence and use of the “f” word. (My virgin ears and eyes, oh no.)  While Joey’s wife Teresa does try and discourage Nicky from swearing, she ultimately sets a poor example for him.
Trying to find redeeming features about this movie is almost like pulling teeth.  It does end on a positive note, and Kramer did make good use of foreshadow for a plot point that is revealed in the last twenty minutes of the film.  Also as disreputable as the character of Joey appears to be throughout most of the movie, he turns out to have several redeeming traits at the end.
Paul Walker (The Skulls, The Fast and the Furious) does a pretty fair job of playing a man who is desperate and “running scared” to find the gun and protect both his own son as well as Oleg.
Cameron Bright (Birth, Godsend) actually did quite well given his rather demanding role in a film he won’t be old enough to see for five more years. Of course, given the extreme violent nature of some of the scenes he starred in, maybe it wasn’t acting.
Vera Farmiga (Touching Evil, The Manchurian Candidate) was mostly okay as more or less a typical concerned mom, but really showed her stuff in the scene where she had a showdown with the perverted couple.
Chazz Palminteri (The Usual Suspects, Mulholland Falls) played a dirty detective trying to bring Joey down.  His character seemed a little minor and not well motivated.
Overall this film is not really worth the celluloid it’s printed on, let alone your box office dollars.  However, if you’re still interested in seeing it after reading this, than at least wait until you have a coupon for a free DVD; but even then.

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Wednesday the 6th of June 2007 @ 04:20:59