Runaway (1984 film): Difference between revisions

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In the near future, when robots become commonplace, Sgt. Jack Ramsey (Selleck) handles cases involving malfunctioning robots.He gets involved in the schemes of a twisted genius named Dr. Charles Luther (Simmons), resulting in a cat and mouse game with such weapons as guided bullets, rolling bombs and acid squirting robotic spiders.

 

 

* [[Chase Scene]]: A fairly memorable one - Luther attacks a police convoy with roving smart bombs by dropping them from a trapdoor in his car, so the heroes can't even see where he's attacking them ''from.''

* [[Dueling Movies]]: With one of the biggest actors at the time and written/directed by a science-fiction legend, this film was projected to be the major sci-fi film of 1984. Instead, it got overshadowed by a [[The Terminator|B-movie about a robot assassin played by an Austrian bodybuilder who barely spoke English, co-starring alongside actors who only had theater experience, and written/directed by an unknown]] (whose last film credit was ''[[Piranha|Piranha II]]'').

* [[Made of Explodium]]: Luther's creations.

* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: The skyscraper construction site. Justified because only robots are meant to be there.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Ramsey is scared of heights. Knowing this, Luther sets the exhange in the climax to happen in an unfinished skyscraper.

 

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