Sadly Over-hyped

Excellent but underrated film

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

RUNNING COOL is a fun and cheesy action B-movie of the early 1990s, with bikers as the heroes of the hour. It reminded me of an A-TEAM episode a little, although with a slightly more adult tone in terms of violence, sexuality, and bad language. The underrated Andrew Divoff - best known for being a villain of choice in the likes of WISHMASTER - plays a biker hero who, along with his buddy Bear, go to help out a friend at the mercy of a ruthless businessman. Paul Gleason, so recognisable from his turn in DIE HARD, plays the villain of the piece. This is a lightweight and fun little movie, full of cheesy action scenes of our heroes beating up lunkheaded henchmen and the like. There's really not too much to it, but I found the atmosphere to be spot on and there's a high enjoyment factor present.

HI,i was in this movie,it was filmed in Sanford FLA. Me and my wife Karen were in the scene where Didi ran through the crowd at the party....you can see us plain....we also rode in the bike ride to the party spot....don't remember the way...but i have a copy of this film and watch it a lot....anyone who would like to get in touch....email cool191jkm@comcast.net...also..this film was originally named iron butts i got the T shirt OK need more lines so,well we found out about this movie from friends when we lived in Leesburg Fla,we lived there for about a year...i wish someone from the movie would contact me via email....if you do say something in the subject so i'll open it...OK is this enough lines?

I caught this on cable and--although I have no connection to bikers whatsoever--I ended up not turning the channel and watching the whole thing through. It's definitely what you'd call a genre piece but it's a lot more enjoyable than you'd imagine. If you can take it as just a cool piece of Americana of a certain time and place, you'll have fun.The story begins in Sturgis, to introduce the characters and their culture, but quickly moves to the South for the majority of the plot. Our hero, Bone, must help an old friend raise money to save his small plot of family land--which happens to be on beautiful Southern wetlands--from the control of developers. He meets dangers and love along the way, as well as gaining an appreciation for the environment and a new sense of home. The characters are pretty much what you'd expect (i.e., not models of complexity a la French New Wave), but the biker characters are actually really appealing and attractively acted.Also, the town being portrayed is spelled Beaufort (South Carolina), to be irritatingly pedantic and add a slight correction to the summaries above.

I really got caught in this movie, it has such a great explaining of the "Biker Culture" as it is and not for people to confuse with Biker gangs like HA or Bandidos. I'm into the biker culture so I know, the movie has a good Love story to it too. I can only say it's worth seeing!!!... Unfortunatly I have a real hard time to get a hold of the movie here in Sweden though... I really need to get a hold of an own copy of it... Rent it or Buy it, it really great!