I love this movie so much

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Mark L. Lester's Night Of The Running Man, not to be confused with the Schwarzenegger classic of a similar moniker, is a mean spirited little urban thriller with Scott Glenn in one of his primo amped up psychopath roles. In the spirit of Scorsese's After Hours, a hapless cab driver (Andrew Mcarthy) finds himself being hunted through the Las Vegas nightscape after one of his fates is murdered right in front of him, but not before leaving behind a suitcase full of millions. The hot man called in to pursue the funds is David Eckert (Glenn), a sociopathic monster with a heavy artillery, bent on retrieving the case and killing as many people along the way. One is reminded of the cult flick Judgment Night as the poor cabbie is forced to run all willy billy through the urban hustle, constantly evading Glenn's lunatic presence. Further villainy is provided, albeit of the more hammy variety, by a scene stealing John Glover as an associate of Eckert's who also casts his net to catch McCarthy, his scenes are so arch and bizarre that they almost swerve the thing into slapstick comedy territory. You can do way worse in budget B movie land, and this one clearly seeks to entertain with it's broad characteristics and blatantly trashy tone. Plus, Glenn is, quite literally, killer good.

This is without question a "B" Movie, but what a "B" Movie, one of the best "Cat and Mouse" films you are likely to find. "The Cat", Scott Glenn's Dave Eckert is without question one of the most evil villains you will ever find in a film. There is not an ounce of decency in this person, he is a mob hit-man who while being a sociopath, is cool, calm, collective, rents silver Jaguar's, and always well dressed with a nasty sense of humor. If James Bond decided to work for the Mafia, he would be Dave Eckert. Spoilers ahead: There is one scene where a guy tries to mug Eckert, and Eckert takes out his knife and cuts his face, and when the guy says "I can't see" Eckert says "Get A Dog." He is also so heartless, he is dating this woman, and he murders her because she wants to find out who he really is. "The Mouse" Jerry Logan (Andrew McCarthy), is an innocent Las Vegas cab driver who picks up a fare who stole money from the Mob, and gets killed. Logan then takes the money and starts to fun, and so begins the chase. Eckert finds the trailer that Logan lives in, Logan gets away by hiding on top, Eckert tracks him down at the airport, he outruns Logan, and in the bathroom, steals a blind man's cane, and gets escorted onto the plane by a stewardess, and gives a finger to Eckert (You see the real anger in Eckert for the first time). Then he gets to LA and at the airport, he takes a cab to get away, but finds the driver is Derek Mills (John Glover), and even more sadistic hit-man then Eckert, who puts Jerry's feet in boiling water. Note: Eckert is robotic, but this guy enjoys torturing people and cannot wait until the day he has a showdown with Eckert to know who is best. Jerry is able to escape by pretending to be unconscious and knocks Mills out. He then collapses in the street and is taken to the Hospital where he is treated by Chris Altman (Janet Gunn), and when Eckert and Mills show up, he tries to run away, and she says if you leave you will die, he says if they catch me, I will die, and lets her know they are Mob hit men, and says he will pay anything to get away. Then they escape to a hotel, and Eckert and Mills track them down, and they flee to her home. Eventually Chris becomes his girlfriend and as Jerry says "Its been a long time since I met anyone nice." At the end, Mills punches out Chris cold, and Eckert murders Mills before he can come after him. I am not going to spoil anything else, but it will come down to Jerry vs Eckert for all the marbles. Does Jerry win? Of course, but how he does it is the best part (Which I will not spoil). 10/10 stars.

SPOILERS.Unprepossessing cabbie finds himself in possession of one million bucks skimmed from a Vegas casino. An icy killer is called in by the organization to track him down and there follows tense little game of hide and seek that leads to Salt Lake City, with killer (Glenn) only two steps behind the cabbie who is by this time a nervous shambles. Another organization killer in brought into the picture, this time a friendly, matter-of-fact, guy with a sense of humor (Glover). Glover takes the cabbie to his own home, ties him up, and gleefully boils his feet until they are lobster red. Cabbie escapes again, winds up in a hospital, the same hospital that Glover finds himself in. There is a meeting between Glenn and Glover, the two professionals, in which Glover comes up with something out of a B Western -- "Someday the two of us will have to find out which of us is better." I know that it's dumb, but it doesn't leap out at the view because so far the entire movie is pretty dumb. For instance, the cabbie (McCarthy) is stupid for telling a friendly waitress exactly where he's going and how. When the waitress accidentally runs into Glenn she's dumb for not simply denying she met McCarthy but also for lying about where he's headed. (She gets offed in a spectacular fashion for suffering from terminal dumbness.) Then we have McCarthy in hospital with his braised feet being treated by a Barbie Doll of a blonde nurse who falls for him for no discernible reason. She helps him escape (again) takes him and his million bucks to her home and he's sufficiently recovered to be able to make strenuous love although, admittedly, this doesn't require him to spend much time on his feet. Lucky for that, because by any reasonable standards they must be the size of watermelons by now.I hope you're following this because there's going to be a quiz. A final attempt an escape fails and the four principals are brought together -- Glenn, Glover, McCarthy and Barbie. Glenn plugs Glover, proving he's the "better" of the two according to some indecipherable code. Glenn gets his just desserts though. Just as he is about to slice off McCarthy's head, McCarthy whacks him in the forehead with a light board that happens to have a longish nail sticking out of it, thus administering the lobotomy that is long overdue. Glenn mutters a few ironic words, then dies, which is just as well because with all that frontal lobe damage he'd never be able to plan far enough ahead to decide what kind of pizza to order.McCarthy and Barbie now have not only the million bucks but two dead bodies, which they destroy in a fire, leaving the organization to think that the bodies are their own, rather than the killers'. It reminds me a lot of Don Siegel's "Charlie Varrick," but without any grace notes whatever. The motives are weak and not believable. Except for Glenn and Glover, the characters held no interest for me. I didn't want to see McCarthy get killed, of course, because he's an ordinary guy, although to be sure than million dollars doesn't belong to him. And Barbie is unimpeachable. I wouldn't like to see her killed even if she were evil personified. I was also sorry to see Glover get it. What a terrific ham. But Seagal's movie is much more fun.

I've always liked the work of actress Kim Lankford, who starred on the prime-time serial Knots Landing for the first 4 years as Ginger Ward. Therefore, I was pleased to see her turn up for a few minutes playing a waitress who covers for Andrew McCarthy (playing a cab driver on the run from the mob) in "Night of the Running Man." Lankford made the most of her screentime and brought some warmth and humanity to a drab direct-to-video actioner. Therefore, (spoiler coming up ahead, folks), I was thoroughly disgusted with the scene where mob hitman Scott Glenn dangles Lankford's terrified character from high up on a Dam in order to coax McCarthy's whereabouts from her, then drops her to her death. I'm not politically correct by any stretch of the imagination, but I've seen more sensitivity shown towards women in the cinema of Dario Argento, Brian DePalma, and Jess Franco. This was offensive, pointless, disgusting and despicable--and shame on Scott Glenn for participating in such a mean film!