The Running Man - 40’s On The 80’s Film Review

Prophecy in Science Fiction and Film..... how many things have we seen in film that eventually came to be? I'm still waiting to be able to do a hover conversion on my car... and whereas many of the cool things we've seen in Sci-Fi films would be great, I feel that some of the less glamorous things of Sci-Fi seem to be turning to reality. Films like 'Idiocracy' and today's gem, 'The Running Man,' seem to be closer to reality than any version of Star Trek or Star Wars I've seen. 

In this film, based off a novel by Stephen King (when he was using the pen name 'Bachman') tells the story of a near-future where there media seems to control everything. Even goes so far as to mention the President of the United States having an agent that works with the largest studio in this story. Arnold plays a character named Ben Richards who stands up to 'The Man' and gets put in prison for it. His subsequent jail-break gives him a brief taste of freedom until he is recaptured and spotted by the host of the world's number one game show, 'The Running Man,' as a potential contestant. 

Richards Dawson does an amazing job as the sleaze-ball, Damon Killian, who some say was never really a good actor.... but is GREAT at being a sleaze-ball!  This film has some of Arnold's greatest one-liners and some great action sequences. We hope you will visit the new episode and hear what we think about this one.