Last week I watched "Black Widow" from 1987, which provided Theresa Russell with an ideal part for her: the methodical, predatory femme fatale. In "Running Woman", she is doubly miscast: as the motherly, warm, goody-goody type, and as the helpless heroine. She also looks quite puffy and far from her prime (with an unflattering hairstyle to boot), although she does look hot for a while when she puts on a brunette wig! The plot is stupid (the police take the word of one detective and start hunting down a mother for the murder of her son without any real evidence supporting that theory), and the "action" scenes are fifth-rate, with obviously fake and in some cases unseen (!) stunts. This picture is just a thorough waste of time. 0.5 out of 4 stars.
Review of Running Woman
