Runaway

  • Science Fiction
  • Crime
  • Thriller
  • Drama
12/14/1984
100
PG-13

IT IS THE FUTURE. Machines are being programmed to turn against us. Someone must stop the madman who started it all.

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.

Revenue:
$6,770,587
Budget:
$8,000,000

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  • GenerationofSwine

    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 w...

    January 11, 2023

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