Bad costumes, bad dialog, cheesy music and even more CHEESY villians....I swear....they literally covered one of the villians with a "light bright" gameboard. This was a full on released movie....V...a tv show released 3 years prior had 10x the special effects and quality....still love Arnold but the Running Man is near the bottom of crap barrel....probably his weakest film...though bad costumes and cheesy everything isnt his fault.

It's a good film with Arnie doing what Arnie did best. This one though is possibly a reality that is closer than Terminator or Predator, Reality TV. How far can it go beyond what it's done, the Japanese masters who invented this genre feel there's only one logical conclusion. Risk to limb and life, we'll all watch even to condemn, because we're human. The most sadistic, voyeuristic species on Earth, no matter how hard we try to avoid it. Good film, enjoy.

Good fun from the 1980's. Schwarzenegger is the best action man. He kicks ass in every film. The film had a interesting plot about a Television Game Show that involves survival against a gang of psychotic killers. The villains are memorable. The good guys in the film are well crafted, I cared about the characters. The soundtrack of the film is awesome. That ending song Restless Heart is one of my all favourite songs. The action scenes in The Running Man are fun and entertaining to watch. I recommend this to anyone who enjoys films like this.

The Running Man is directed by Paul Michael Glaser and adapted from the Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) story by Steven E. de Souza. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown, Jesse Ventura, Erland van Lidth, Marvin J. McIntyre, Gus Rethwisch, Professor Toru Tanaka and Mick Fleetwood. Music is by Harold Faltermeyer and cinematography by Thomas Del Ruth.It may be packed with cheese, but this is one great and astutely entertaining futuristic slice of sci-fi pie. Schwarzenegger becomes a reluctant contestant in the most popular TV show of the time, The Running Man. It's a sadistic show where convicts are thrust into a zonal world and have to avoid an array of stalking killers. Cue lots of outrageous violence, equally outrageous costumes, and of course with Arnold in the lead there's plenty of dialogue zingers. The caustic observation of how television programmes have evolved is potently portentous, and it's all played out to an industrial 80s score from Faltermeyer.It helps if you know what you are going to get from it, because it's a typical Schwarzenegger movie of the era, thus it's very much one for his fans to lap up with glee. 7/10