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Where do I even start on how bad this movie is. J. K Simmons had to be desperate for money to even be associated with this dumb film. Common sense had no part in the writing of this.

After a teacher ( played by Simmons) kills his wife and her lover after being caught in bed together, he decides to kill his neighbour. He then steals the lovers motorcycle parked in his driveway .He then randomly shoots 3 people at a gas station leaving a witness to the murders alive who gives a description to the most useless cops . He then comes across a father and daughter who are stopped at the side of the road and pulls a gun. The father drives away and is chased by the gunman. Instead of running the guy on the motorcycle off the road he allows the killer to catch up beside him and shoot him making him run off the road. The movie only gets worse from there with the daughter not using her cell phone to call for help until much later. Leaving a voicemail message for her mother. Her mother who was worried she couldn't contact them does not listen to the voice message until much later. The daughter instead of using the forest to hide while running keeps stopping in the most visible wide open spots possible. Absolutely the worst premise and writing of a movie and I was happy to shut it off.

Like most who know J. K. Simmons we picked this movie because we enjoy J. K. Simmons & the movies he stars in. He's a fantastic actor. But this movie is so far below his standards we couldn't help but wonder why the heck did he accept the role.

So he plays the role of a psycho killer okay, but it didn't take any special skills. Other than that, there is not one redeeming quality about this movie. After he shoots the dog owner I would have thought the couple in the chairs would have been like gone! But they just sat there & JK calmly saunters over & shoots them both, but allows the woman at the gas pumps to live; she didn't run either, no she squatted down at the pumps, despite his motorbike beside her. And off he goes. He comes across stepdad & his stepdaughter arguing in a car. After he shoots stepdad its time to chase after the step daughter who ran off into the woods (this movie use to be called The Woods I believe). The daughter actually takes time out to stop at a river & wash her arms & hands. Who does that when running scared from a psycho killer? We now know the premise of the movie as JK continues to act like he's some crazed nut with intent to hunt down the girl. Mom chats with the killer & threatens to hunt him down & kill him, like this will scare him off the daughter. There is nothing to keep you on the edge of your seat here, nothing that you don't already know how it's going to end; except to wonder why the heck did JK Simmons accept this role in the 1st place. Oh, and yeah, the group of young volunteers led by sis.. noisy, complaining, stumbling about.. you can hear them from several miles away. And what police force is going to recruit young volunteers to traipse about the woods in the middle of the night for a psycho serial killer? They try to change things up having daughter gobble down some shrooms, saying "I found some more food". She stopped to read the package, it's in big bold print.. she's starving, but she only has her from having just one. She's supposedly starving but only eats one. Of course that's a good thing or else she would have really been screwed. And the ending.. who does that? You're gonna have to watch the whole it all to find out. This movie is out of this world stupid, and not worth the paper it was written on.

Why did Academy Award Winner J. K. Simmons take on the role? Because he's a loving, caring, supportive, & a super husband, super dad, & super brother-in-law; that's all I can figure. His wife co-wrote it & directed it. His brother-in-law was producer, his daughter starred in it, and his son was the composer for the film. That doesn't make it a good film, & certainly not worthy of paying box office fare (or on-demand). If you're really a faithful fan ofJ. K. Simmons, than by all means watch it for free, but don't expect anything of it.

I saw You Can't Run Forever, starring J. K. Simmons-the Spider_Man movies, The Closer_tv; Isabelle Anaya-The Rookie: Feds_tv, Donny's Barmitzvah; Allen Leech-Downton Abbey_tv, Bohemian Rhapsody and Fernanda Urrejola-The Black Demon, Narcos:Mexico_tv.

This is a nice little thriller that is written and directed by Michelle Schumacher-J. K. Simmons' real life wife-and has J. K. starring in it, as well as his real life daughter Olivia, in a small part. The movie starts with J. K. riding a motorcycle on a country road. When he stops for gas, he sees a man walking a dog and a couple sitting outside the gas station. After gassing up, J. K. pulls out a gun and shoots all 3 people and then rides off. Elsewhere, Isabelle is a teenage girl that found her father after he committed suicide years before, so she is a little on the anxious side-she is on medication. Allen is her new step father, who married her mother, Fernanda. While on a trip to the store, Isabelle and Allen cross paths with J. K. and things go bad quickly. Isabelle escapes on foot into the woods and the chase is on. Anytime Isabelle meets anyone in the woods that could help her, J. K. shoots them. Later, in flashbacks, you learn what set J. K. off in the first place and made him turn into a sociopath.

It's rated R for violence, suicide, drug use, language and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 42 minutes.

I enjoyed it enough that I would buy it on DVD.

Miranda (Isabelle Anaya) has issues that involve a tall tree in the backyard and her deceased father (Randy Gonzalez). They hide this from the audience until there are 20 minutes left in the film for no particular reason. Her mother (Fernanda Urrejola) has moved on and remarried a man (Allen Leech) who has a daughter Emily (Olivia Simmons). Wade Bennett (JK Simmons) is our sociopath killer. We later discover he is Wade Bennett, a teacher who snapped. Miranda is subject to panic attacks. Their lives collide as Miranda is running for her life in the forest.

I thought it was funny when Mom was shown a picture of the killer and claimed he didn't look familiar, apparently having never seen a Farmer's Insurance commercial. Good cast. Our protagonist hated life so much that it was hard to develop an attachment. Just you typical girl hunted in woods film and not that great.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.