Runaway

'Tom Selleck's Blade Runner' doesn't quite live up to the original, mainly because they've replaced Daryl Hannah with the Mars Pathfinder, which detracts a bit from the moral ambiguity of being robot police. It's hard not to notice how no one in this future thought of an off switch, but all that's forgiven with the very last exchange between Selleck and superhot Rhodes. I spontaneously sprang to my feet and applauded. Bravo the 80s, bravo! Why'd we ever have to say goodbye?

In a technology-driven future that has heat-seeking bullets, flying cameras, robot servos, acid-spewing metal spiders, talking cop cars, and super-hacker Gene Simmons, Tom Selleck and his mustache are foiled by the one true bane to human existence--the telephone busy signal!!! On the other hand, any technology that can get Kirstie Alley nekkid is worth fighting for.

I appreciate that they didn't overreach with the futuristic inventions. It looks pretty plausible today although I can't remember what year it's supposed to take place. Selleck is engaging as the Danny Glover of the cop pairing and Cynthia Rhodes is pretty close to being as attractive as young mulleted Mel Gibson. The acrophobia is handled well as it ties into fatherhood, which isn't something I expected from my killer robot movie. Is it better than A.I. Artificial Intelligence? Yes.

I was 7 when I watched this in the theatre. I STILL have fucking nightmares. Had seen tons of horror flicks under my belt even at that age and THIS is the piece of shit that made me pee my bed. I'm still scared of my vaccuum getting a gun and blowing holes in the wall. Piece of shit. Stay away.

Futuristic action movie starring Tom Selleck as a cop who specializes in cases of robots going haywire, a common occurrence in the highly automated society. He is pitted against Gene Simmons, playing an evil genius (lol) out to sell high tech weapons to terrorists. Selleck's character is deathly afraid of heights and fiercely protective of his young son, so it comes as no surprise when the film climaxes with his son being kidnapped and held at the top of a highrise building under construction.

What the fuck. This movie owns. There are some dumbass robot spiders that inject poison into some dude's neck and a bullet that follows people. When I was a kid, I always pretended I had a gun with bullets like that. Fuck yes.

Holy crap, where do I start? The idea of a police unit dedicated to murderous boxes on treads -- err, robots -- and Gene Simmons as a sociopathic trafficker... I can't, I can't do it. My incredulity has been stretched too far. I give up. But I did buy Tom Selleck as a cop. Yeah. He pulled that off. Sure. Umm...

Oh my God, where has this thing been my entire life?

If Bladerunner's replicants were produced by Frigidaire, it would be this movie.

A very dated movie which starts to question our reliance on technology whilst also investigating murders. Will look silly to most audiences today but the film still has a charm I like.

Worthless short of Gene Simmons providing hammy villain gold.

Crichton's 80s sci-fi mis-step pays homage to Vertigo amongst other thrillers, but has more than enough misguided ideas of its own to spoil the show. From the clunky runaway robots, to Selleck's "creepy but jaded gentleman" character, to the hammy overacting by Simmons and Selleck, every moment brims with awkwardness. By themselves, some of the extended set pieces are thrilling, but strung together as a movie they repeatedly seem like jarring and illogical jumps in the plot. A moldy cheese-fest.

A little better than I thought it would be after I revisited this one. Decent 80s sci-fi action.

Really fun sci-fi cheese. Viewing in 2021, it has accurately predicted a few current technological developments. I appreciate how the working class robots are boxy machines, not overdesigned and futuristic, but sturdy and simple.

Aside from some hilarious casting and cool robots, there's nothing here

Harlan Ellison thinks this is a really neat-o suprem-o piece of sf. I have never understood what he meant. Gene Simmons as the bad guy is kinda fun, but that's about all I remember fondly of this picture

Rewatched. +10 for Gene Simmons. I think I liked this when I saw it back in the 80s (I was 12). This time, I spent most of its 100 minutes trying to convince myself that Simmons would have made a better Fox Mulder than Duchovny. I succeeded! Time well spent.

While I LOVE the bullets that go around corners (seriously), this unintentional piece of camp gold is best watched with a big bag of popcorn and your brain in neutral. Toe knee :-)

Liked the two leads a lot and that final line was priceless.

Sometimes cheese can be enjoyable. Michael Crichton's movie, Runaway, is filled with too many straight-up Hollywood clichés to be taken seriously, but it's still fun. Maybe it's just because I'm a Die-Hard Magnum PI fan, or perhaps I love to see Gene Simmons' evil glare. Runaway has some fun ideas, but the movie's not great. It's one of those movies where the bad guy can magically get anywhere and automatically knows everything.

Forgettable.

Corny as hell.

Cops-and-robots thriller by Crichton, in the slightly futuristic vein favored by him. There are a wide variety of domestic, industrial, and criminal robots, highlighted by a "poisonous spider" model, plus a few other gizmos such as a guided-missile pistol, a "floater camera," and moving-picture mug shots -- but the world into which these inventions are sprinkled has otherwise not changed much from our own.

hahahhaa. Tom Selleck as an action star. hahhahahahahahha

Very little about RUNAWAY has aged well, but its conceit--a special branch of the police dedicated to, um, switching off malfunctioning robots--was probably always difficult to accept with a straight face. Salvaged somewhat by its residual camp value (Gene Simmons as an evil tech genius; boxy, clunky robots) and bits of Crichton's foresight (self-driving cars, drone cameras and weapons), the film mostly adheres to a standard action template and suffers from a severe lack of personality.

52.500

Really good movie..impressed with its future projections.

The Mustache wins!

Michael Crichton sure had a handle on the future, as Runaway has a surprising number of things that we now see daily. Of course in this 1984 flick they look ridiculous. The ridiculousness is pretty fun, but when no robots are on screen the cop-chasing-badguy plot is so-so.