Runaway
FUTURE COP TOM SELLECK BATTLES GENE SIMMONS, AN EVIL SCIENTIST WHO'S UNLEASHED A TORRENT OF KILLER ROBOTS UPON AN UNSUSPECTING CITY. SPECIAL FEATURES: THEATRICAL TRAILERS, TALENT FILES, SCENE SELECTIONS, INTERACTIVE MENUS, SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, PORTUGUESE, CHINESE, KOREAN AND THAI AND MUCH MORE.
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Runaway Reviews
Tom Selleck in a part somewhat unlike his other rolls but still the highest quality actor. In addition, you get Gene Simmons as the evil doctor, and a very attractive Cynthia Rhodes as Selleck's police partner. This movie is dated because of the props and sets that were available at that time but the story and script are classic Crichton style, and Kirstie Alley is still dazzlingly beautiful.
The climactic scenes were very predictable. Rock star Gene Simmons, by the way, does a nice job as the bad guy. Yet, it was still fun to watch and worth one look. You just knew certain things were going to happen.and they did. This was a decent suspense film with a different twist for its day, dealing with robots. I'd watch it again. Here, cops go after runaway robots and after a villain who is trying to steal deadly weapons (gosh, that's original).
The idea has since been copied in a few films. The special effects are pretty good - especially since this was made over 20 years ago - and I particularly enjoyed watching the heat-seeking bullets fired from the villain's gun. As entertaining as this Tom Selleck movie was, it had a B-quality to it with some stupid and predictable dialog.
Not a bad movie, with miss hotness, Gene Simions Rocks, Magnum PI with out the 308 GTS
Do ya love films made in the past predicting what the future would be like.and getting it so wrong and dated in the process. Selleck is like "Magnum P.I. Wow, then Runaway is for you. In fact, think of this film as a product of the popularity of 1982's Blade Runner, except much, much worse on every level. (RedSabbath Rating:7.0/10) 2010" here, so don't expect much of an acting stretch from him on this one. I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid all those years ago, and it's future is pretty much as I remember. I guess the most surprising aspect of the film is that it's not only written by, but directed as well by Michael "Jurassic Park" Crichton, and does remind you of one of his earlier than this works in Westworld, just very 80's instead of 70's.
Add in a couple of assassin mini-spider robots filled with acid and a very young Kirstie Alley in a strip-search scene (.)., and pretty much that's Runaway. Dated, corny, and should be seen by anyone who loves the inaccurate future films just once, Runaway could become one of your newest guilty pleasures on DVD. Best put, the world's now serviced by robots, not really smart human-like robots but more of the HAL/Doctor Who's Daleks kind. Tom Selleck's a cyber-policeman who you basically call when your robot starts acting crazy, and Gene Simmons (yes, that tongue-enhanced KISS demon who took off his make-up only one year prior) as a madman computer programmer who wants to turn The Jetsons Rosie into his own version of Blade Runner's Replicants.
If you like science fiction with characters you can care about (or hate), a good story, some suspense, and creative technological features, you'll enjoy this film. It's far better than a lot of the garbage they're cooking up in CGI labs today. That's what this movie delivers. There are entertaining movies that aren't great, and great movies that aren't entertaining. If you're reading the reviews, you know the characters and the story. If I had to choose one, I'd choose entertaining.
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