Runaway (1984)

★ 5.6 1h 40m 281 votes IMDb
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In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.

Runaway

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Tom Selleck
Tom Selleck as Jack R. Ramsay Age 81 · Detroit, Michigan, USA Thomas William "Tom" Selleck (born January 29, 1945) is an American actor and film producer, best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum on the 1980s television...
Cynthia Rhodes
Cynthia Rhodes as Officer Karen Thompson Age 69 · Nashville, Tennessee, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Cynthia Rhodes (born November 21, 1956) is an American actress, singer and dancer most noted for her roles in Dirty Dancing and Flashdance. Description above f...
Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons as Dr. Charles Luther Age 76 · Haifa, Israel Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz; August 25, 1949) is an Israeli American rock bassist, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and businessman. Known as "The Demon," he is the bassist/vocalist of Kiss, a h...
Kirstie Alley
Kirstie Alley as Jackie Rogers Died 2022 · Wichita, Kansas, USA Kirstie Louise Alley (January 12, 1951 – December 5, 2022) was an American actress. Her breakout role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987–1993), for which she received an Emmy Award and...
Stan Shaw
Stan Shaw as Marvin Age 73 · Chicago, Illinois, USA Stan Shaw (born July 14, 1952) is an American actor. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he is the son of Bertha Shaw and saxophonist Eddie Shaw, and cousin of the late soul singers Sam Cooke and Tyrone Davis...
G.W. Bailey
G.W. Bailey as Chief Age 81 · Port Arthur, Texas, USA ​George William Bailey was born on August 27, 1944, in Port Arthur, Texas. Bailey started college at Lamar University in Beaumont and eventually transferred to Texas Tech University in Lubbock; but he...

Audience Reviews

GenerationofSwine 10/10 Jan 11, 2023
This is sort of a more realistic Terminator. I mean, we aren't going to see cyborgs marching over the earth, that would be entirely inefficient. But we already see a lot of robots like this, and they will be our downfall...

... for economic depression alone, even if the singularity never happens.

Anyway, it is DATED, in fact it redefines dated and when I saw it in the early 90s as a kid (thank you Suncoast Video) it was dated... but it was fun.

It tells a great story, Jack Ramsay is believable and not an over the top action hero (Thank you Tom Selleck) and it moves along at a nice and steady pace being just science fiction enough to be sci-fi and just grounded enough to be believable.

And, revisiting it decades later, it still works despite how dated it is.

So you are left entertained despite Alley once more playing 80s Girl and not an actual character. I mean, lets face it, any movie where Gene Simmons does a decent acting job, that is not only a good movie, but has a great director that knows how to get what he needs from actors.

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