Night of the Running Man
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List Price: $94.98
Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• NTSC
In Theaters : 1994
Video Release : 30 May, 1995 |
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This film is set in Las Vegas, a city dependent on tourism and gambling. With this foundation you can imagine the people it attracts. A man leaves a gambling casino with a small suitcase and hails a cab. Pursuers in another car chase this cab. After it crashes the man is struck by this car and killed. The pursuers do not retrieve the suitcase he carried! The cab driver leaves and takes the suitcase: it is filled with a million dollars in hundred-dollar bills. [That would weight about 32 lbs (14.5kg) and would not be as easily carried as shown in this film.]
The pursuers figure out the cabbie took the money. The casino manager hires a collector to get it back. This collector displays the identification of a Las Vegas police officer. He's not afraid of a mugger! The cabbie buys a train ticket but is easily tracked, even when he changes his destination to Los Angeles. Another collector picks him up in a taxicab, and takes him to a safe house. There is a scene of gratuitous torture. A miracle occurs, and Jimmy escapes. He winds up in a hospital for his wounds. Nobody looks inside the large bag he carried! [Believable?] A nurse tries to help him and gets entangled. [Believable?] There is a sideshow dealing with disloyal employees. The two collectors join forces. One is eliminated and Jimmy escapes to the cellar (no exit!). The fight results in an unexpected ending. Jimmy and the nurse discard the collectors [in a method that will attract a lot of attention!], and are last seen buying a ticket for Rio de Janeiro. While there is no extradition treaty, certain forces have the connections there to accomplish their revenge. Again, nobody looks inside the suitcase. [Believable?] The fact is that Customs searches both incoming and outgoing baggage. It is a crime to take out more than $10,000 without declaring it. All in all, it is an action movie that won't strain your brain.
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