On the run! (2024) won’t be added in anyone’s must watch lists for 2024, but perhaps not in the ways that one may expect. Despite the well-meaning intention of writer-directors Bill Brennenstuhl and Paul Stenerson wanting all pieces of this desert town survivalist puzzle to fall in together, whenever possible too many edges don’t quite fit most of the time.
An elderly couple (Jeremy Miller and Alena von Stroheim) decided it would be fitting to have a second ceremony in a desert town. This time Anna wanted an estranged sister to act as a maid of honor but she does not turn up for the ceremony. While on their return journey to the hotel, Anna and Runner get drugged and taken away from each other. Just so, Runner is taken to some deserted place and Anna is shut off with traces only. To rescue his wife and fulfil their happy ever after Runner must endure a sniper, a man in a mask, a lunatic preacher, a drone with a terrible lens, and the blistering sun.
Finally, I can say my first words in the game the game has an actually playable tutorial. And a nice tutorial, which pushes itself into the background to not be too distracting for the player. The same level of craftsmanship was put into the art which helped break the grid where I imagined the levels. Best of all, I’m glad they made in-game footage for the trailer rather than those stylized shooting scenes with explosions that fake most videos.
At the same time, the developers got me right from the beginning by showing the journey of the main protagonist. The intro cuts that show The Far West from the Phrygian perspective, its places, and the lore introduced to me in the very beginning made me want to see what will happen next. I was struck by the visuals and the storyline, which gave me the feeling that I was playing something different at all. Sounds like I loved everything.
And to think I originally thought I was filming in Portugal! Organic. As if they had perfected the visuals even more. It all looked alive and gave a feeling of credibility and satisfaction. Couldn’t get enough of it.
If the audience does not understand the dialogue or doesn’t care about it, everything that happens feels pointless. When there was speaking, it dragged on for too long and had such awful accents that it completely suffocated any remote tension it had built. Conversely, the action scenes were particularly well choreographed and after a while, certain glaring inconsistencies became forgivable. I was looking forward to sophistication in action but instead found the set pieces (and rather regrettably the characters too) to be boring and uninspired. There was a drone that took photographs as well as videos, but from its angle, it appeared to be a placeholder, something that would be edited later. It was reminiscent of a Silver Orb (the “Sentinel Sphere”, from Phantasm (1979) an object before the late 70s that no one had witnessed, a sentient wall of death -when drones are everywhere in the 21st century.
Unquestionably, Run! will have its fans, probably those who enjoy seeing women being slaughtered and dismembered, a squalid atmosphere with bloodstained walls, littered, and more than a few health hazards. It’s the sort of movie you put on when you’re anticiMittign the delivery guy with your pizza but you mostly watch when people scream. This is eBay explained in that it is not dealt with competition which is bad as it could have been improved.
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