A Review of Runaway (1984)
Starring..... Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes and Gene Simmons
Director...... Michael Crichton
Synopsis
In the near future, a police officer specializes i. Malfunctioning robots. when a robot turns out to have programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create Killer Robots.... and his son Becomes the Target.
Warning Spoilers ahead
My Review
The Story
Well the story of movie felt like a comic style type movie plot which I can of like I think I remember see this movie back in days not sure if so this first time I see it in years.
Pretty much the whole story is about Jack Ramsey disarming robots that are know as Rubaways finds himself partnered with rookie cop Thompson who is played by Cynthia Rhodes, who is best known for her roles in Staying alive, Flash Dance and Dirty Dancing.
When robots start Target people and killing them it leads to them to psychotic Luther who is a nut case when it comes to program robots to kill they must now race against time to catch him before he does any more Damage.
The film is set in near future as you can tell with robots there is a killer robot which is like a spider looking thing that stabs you with a syringe filled with acid before blowing up and smart bullets, which can be programmed to track human heat signatures, the guy that plays Luther is none other then gene Simmons from Kiss and must say he indeed pull this off never in my day would see him as bad guy in a movie.
Sure is something how this Luther guy can programmed robots to kill for him have to say he is one heck of creating genius that is nuts that for sure now he going after guy son which takes it too far but this guy is a nut so nothing new so last 15 of mins was one heck and battle was great was a lot of close calls with them creepy Spider robots let say in the end it backfired on bad guy big time can of crazy ending to a Cheesy movie but I did like this one it was not bad at all had great music as well.
The acting
Tom selleck puts on a not bad performance as your average cop and Cynthia Rhodes was not bad as well in this she did good. But the top lead pretty much went to Gene Simmons as evil Luther his performance pretty made this movie Incredible and also spider robots were great in this one too very scary robots.
We get some other big names from 80’s in the form of Kristie Ally and G.W Bailey who would go on to be best know in Police academy movies.
Overall
This movie is indeed can of 80’s chessy movie but it is still entertaining with Again Tom selleck and Gene Simmons as well.
It is a fun film to watch if you got the time to watch.
Runaway (1984) rating
Story- 7.0
Acting- 8.9
Visual effects- 8.0
Music- 7.0
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