Genre: Drama
Tagline: Its Find The Gun, Or Death ..
Plot: For over a decade Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) has successfully juggled his conflicting roles as both loving family man and a low-level employee of the Italian Perello mob in Grimley, New Jersey. However, when Joey ignores the mob’s explicit instructions to dispose of a gun used in the fatal shooting of a corrupt cop during a bungled drug buy, he unwittingly puts his entire family in immediate danger.Joey stows this incriminating piece of evidence in his basement for possible future use as collateral against his employers, only to have his son’s best friend, Oleg (Cameron Bright), discover and abscond with the weapon. Unaware that the disappearance of this weapon could jeopardize both Joey and himself, Oleg uses it to wound his abusive stepfather Anzor (Karel Roden), the drug-addicted black sheep of the Russian Yugorsky mob, and then flees into the night. As he vainly seeks safe haven, Oleg encounters and dodges a slew of nocturnal miscreants, all the while being pursued by relentless Perello and Yugorsky henchmen as well as by the nefarious Detective Rydell (Chazz Palminteri), a corrupt cop who is hell-bent on profiting from the missing gun’s potentially disastrous effects on the already uneasy alliance between the rival Perello and Yugorsky clans. Meanwhile, Joey, hot on
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 If you like kinetic movies about crime, criminals, and all sorts of bad behavior, Running Scared will catch and hold your attention.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Overblown, ultra-violent and frequently stupid, yet perversely entertaining with it, this is just about passable as a forgettable Friday night action flick but it’s unforgivably bad in places.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
"Running Scared" is crazy and garish and kinda nuts. It has heaps of problems, but heck, it's a helluvalot better than most of the action thrillers churned out these days - "Firewall," anyone? B,B---Robin and Laura Clifford
Nudity, drugs, and a missing gun - things that should make for a good movie. Running Scared misses the boat!  --Steven Chupnick (MovieWeb)
Running Scared is a film with teeth. It is ferocious, twisted and gritty; a pulp fan’s dream come true.  --Julian Roman (MovieWeb)
...achieves exactly what it sets out to do. It takes the audience on a two hour frantic, frenetic, stomach-churning thrill ride and never, ever lets up. B+--Rebecca Murray (About.com)
The film is consistently intense, never dull, yet rarely what you'd call "exciting." B--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
If "Running Scared'' sometimes looks like a storyboard sprung violently to life, Kramer's assured direction turns that into its greatest strength in the clinches, of which there are plenty. The action erupts with the subtlety of a blowtorch, and always with a macabre energy that never fails to set the movie -- and yes, OK, one character, but a minor character -- on fire. --Bruce Newman
...is likely to be one big ol’ kinetic romp of bloody fun that’ll have you pulling out the Kleenex and appreciating all over the place. 7/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
There's so much jump-cutting and first-person action in this thing that I skipped the popcorn and opted for the extra-large bucket of Rolaids.... -4--Mr. Cranky
Laden with pointless-yet-cool camera tricks, a crazily contorted plot structure, and more outrageously unrealistic violence than a Road Runner cartoon, "Running Scared" is an absolute catalog of action flick tricks, and one presented by a filmmaker who'sclearly having a good time sampling from the genre salad bar. Call it mindless, brutal, derivative, and silly if you like ... and I probably wouldn't disagree with you. But when all's said and done, "Running Scared" antes up with the cinematic insanity..  --Scott Weinberg (eFilmCritic.com)
Without Farmiga to provide the miner’s helmet shred of illumination for this dark tale of criminal woe, I can’t imagine how much worse “Running Scared” would’ve been. And to sleep soundly tonight, I won’t even consider the horrors to be found in that line of thought.  --Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com)
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