🇵🇱 Steve G 🇵🇸’s review published on Letterboxd:
SOME SPOILERS
You know, I'd completely forgotten that Paul Michael Glaser had directed this. Not a cardboard box in sight though.
It's been absolutely years since I'd seen The Running Man, so long in fact that I had actually forgotten as well that Yaphet Kotto is in it. It's not really the right kind of role for Yaphet, in all fairness, all this running around shit just didn't suit him at all. Plus it doesn't seem to suit his bespectacled computer nerd chum either. Who the hell was that guy anyway?
As sidekicks go, Arnie's had stronger and things perk up when Maria Conchita Alonso, long before she started bothering Sean Penn in airports, gets chucked in the game as well. But aside from Arnie, who is as Arnie is in this, this film is all about the villains.
SUBZERO! Looks like a fat version of Oddjob from Goldfinger, but instead of a killer titfer, he's got a razor-tipped hockey stick. Does alright for himself before HE GETS IT IN THE NECK.
BUZZSAW! Complete with motorbike and chainsaw, he has a double-pronged attack to launch on Arnie and his chums. His bike comes a cropper before too long before an ending he NEVER SAW COMING.
DYNAMO! A big unnerving opera-singing bastard, he zaps the fuck out of nerdy fellow and puts Maria under for a bit before Arnie upends his souped-up golf buggy and then lets him go! Pah! A sprinkler system SPARKS HIM OUT later on though!
FIREBALL! It's Jermaine Jackson in a jump suit with a flame-thrower! He doesn't last very long with Arnie though getting blown up good and proper. FLAMIN' HELL!
CAPTAIN FREEDOM! He can't even be arsed to fight him! Booooo! No BODY can believe it!
KILLIAN! There will be no Mutoid Man along to help you out this time, sunshine! He gets blown up at the end. I'LL FRY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!
I'm sorry.