Review of Running Scared

A great movie destined, as some have said, for cult status! The story and the final outcome are almost hard to believe. But if you can get on board with little or no baggage of mental reservations , you will be well rewarded in the end. You will be thankful for the experience of viewing a movie that has a thunderbolt of a major plot intertwined with unexpected but still harrowing subplots. Assuredly, the suspense and violent action will keep you on your toes for most of the film. But above all, to me, what sealed it was that although at first I questioned the why-of-it-all (the initial spark, i.e. Joey Gazelle's stupid act of not securing the place where he kept his guns), I eventually realized that, were it not for that, all the subplots may not have occurred. And I am glad that they did. Last, but not least, I would like to commend all the actors for the great ensemble tour-de-force.