In the near future of 2008... Wait a minute. That's actually the past. And this film was made in 1995. What on Earth where the three (yeah, three) writers thinking here? Oh well. I'll start again.
In the year 2008, the Earth is ravaged by war, pestilence, disease and mutants. (apparently)
Who's to blame for all of this bleakness? Wimmin', that's who. Single wimmin'.
Or at least that's what the "corrupt government" seem to think, and promptly bundle all single women off to prisons, as they're deemed "A threat to society".
This is explained by some dude doing a voice-over, only he never explains WHY, single chicks are deemed a threat to society.
But that doesn't matter, because as soon as this film starts, four chicks go from showering in their thongs to doing a prison break in their thongs, and this does its job in distracting you from asking about such niceties like realism, and believability.
Besides, Robert Z'Dar is the warden, and if you're actually gonna sit down and watch a futuristic post apocalyptic flick with sleazy wardens played by Robert Z'Dar and prison breaks by chicks wearing thongs, and then not like it, well, this begs the question: Shouldn't the sentence "Starring Robert Z'Dar as the sleazy warden" have been a valuable enough heads up to begin with??
Anyhoo, our heroines go on the run, to the fabled "Paradise City", (where presumably single wimmin' aren't deemed a threat to society and Guns N Roses are quite popular) only to have that dastardly warden hire a bounty hunter and a dude with a motorcycle helmet passing as a cyborg, to bring em back home, so that justice will be served. Apparently, cyborgs were invented in the 13 years before single wimmin' caused society's downfall.
Yet luckily for our intrepid single chicks, a mysterious Ninja, who just happens to be bopping along the post apocalyptic mutant and pestilence infested wasteland, decides to teach them how to fight, for reasons best known to himself. Judging by the training choreography, he's no Mr Myagi either. This leads to a climax which involves chainsaw duels and improbable wounds, such as single crimson lines from said chainsaw duels.
Run Like Hell is awesomely, incredibly, almost willfully awful. In every sense of the word. The dialogue is crap. The acting is woeful and the cast consists of people with names such as Gil Cologne. The score is this hilariously inept syntho nonsense and the fact that three writers thought that:
A) Society was gonna crumble in 13 short years.
B) Said future would also consist of ninjas, chainsaw duels and single chicks getting carted off to prisons as being single was a threat to society...
...is a testament to the sheer grooviness of the drugs they obviously had knocking about back then.
Anyway... I loved it, and found it firmly craptastic. Well recommended for lovers of trashy bad cinema.
And NOBODY else.
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