Freerunner

2011 "Run for your life"
3.5| 1h27m| R| en
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With a ticking bomb locked to his neck, a young freerunner races against the clock and all types of baddies to get from one end of the city to the other to save himself and his girlfriend.

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Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.
Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring
Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Michael Ledo This is a film about an illegal sport called "Freerunning." A group of young men run through the city (filmed in Cleveland), impervious to sidewalks, direct routes, or roads. Rather they run and jump over things to the thrill of Internet viewers. Then man who runs this operation makes his money from running a bookie operation, allowing viewers to bet on the runners. Of course once you have the 3 flags needed to win the tournament, you need to be an expert kick boxer to keep them. The running is fast paced with acrobatics done to an appropriate sound track.Ryan (Sean Faris), one of the runners works mopping floors in a hospital and cares for his bed ridden grandfather. He has a gf (Rebecca Da Costa) who is way out of his league. She sings in a bar and dreams of living on a beach. Ryan, who lost the last race, and has never beaten Finch (Ryan Doyle) decides to go against the rules and bet on himself using a shill so he can make that big score and move to the beach with his gf and gramps. Yes, even his gf thinks the whole thing is stupid. I thought, "This is it? This is the best plot they can attach to freerunning?"Then it happens, the unexpected plot twist involving an evil black man named, "Jacque."F-bomb, sex, nudity.
alexwojtak I remember Simon Amstell saying that if a film contained Danny Dyer, it was either first rate or third rate. This film really doesn't cut it as third rate. It truly is terrible.I've watched a lot of films, and I tend to like a lot of cheap low budget horror films, so it's really going some to say that I think this is the worst acting I've ever seen. Maybe something like 'razor blade smile' coming in second. They were clearly going for parkour crossed with the running man, but failed on every count that matters as a movie (also, surely a better title would have been "The free-running man"?) The opening just looks like a computer game, but manages to handle it even worse than "house of the dead." Somehow it goes downhill from there.
manjodude The characters in Freerunner are an environmentalist's delight. They zip from place to place in the city, using only their legs! Yes, no fuel, no harmful gases, no pollution. But those who have watched this move would have felt some pollution could have been risked by dumping these guys(no offense to the actors) in a car(tied to a 100 kiloton steel ball) and pushing it off a bridge :p All those prancing off walls, windows, restaurant tables & vehicles gave me a little headache after a while. Me thinks, freerunning is good to watch as a documentary, not in a movie with silly plot & characters.Sean Farris as Ryan does a neat job but he's more of a physical actor than mental, if you know what I mean. As long as he gets action roles, his life in Hollywood should go just fine :) Amanda Fuller as Dalores(Ryan's girlfriend) was duh in acting but damn! in shape ;) Some other actors like Ryan Doyle as Finch(Ryan's biggest competitor), Tamer Hassan as the free runners' greedy manager and Danny Dyer as the psychotic businessman Mr.Frank(making millions out of the lives of the free runners) are good but all their efforts were finally for nothing really.Any good deeds? Yeah, some of those cartwheeling, long jumps, high jumps...that they call freerunning. But many scenes later, you get tired and want to arrest them for public viewing nuisance charges.Verdict: The last I heard, the producers are now wanted felons for having made this movie. Free runners, get them :p
diverwillis1 "Okay.I haven't seen the movie,but after seeing the others and reading the books, I can definitely say that this should go back to the flames of hell that it was formed in. My favorite moment is at the 17-second mark when there's an out-of-context shot of a nerd saying "SH*T YEAH!" after Sean Faris captures the other team's flag. IT'S LIKE HE'S DOING AN IMPRESSION OF ME WHEN I'M WATCHING SEAN FARIS PULL OFF BADASS PARKOUR MOVES! Then there's a two-second montage that shows 1. parkour fighting 2. sexy dancing 3. Kanye shades 4. vodka drinking. IT'S SO RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS!! WHICH FOCUS GROUP DID YOU USE??!? This could be the hippest movie of all time. It's so cutting edge it's already played out. SAVE THEM, SEAN FARIS! SAVE THEM USING YOUR FREE RUNNING