Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Pluskylang Great Film overall

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Woodyanders Rugged sergeant Jack Ramsay (a fine and engaging performance by Tom Selleck) takes care of defective robots whenever they go dangerously awry. Ramsay and his eager new partner Thompson (an appealingly perky portrayal by Cynthia Rhodes) under a nefarious plot by evil genius Charles Luther (deliciously played with lip-smacking wicked relish by Gene Simmons) to use a bunch of microchips that can make robots go lethally haywire.Writer/director Michael Crichton offers a fairly accurate prediction of a future where everything is heavily automated, keeps the enjoyable and engrossing story moving along at a snappy pace, takes a few barbed satiric potshots at the pesky sensational scoop hungry media, and stages the exciting action set pieces with skill and flair. Moreover, Crichton presents Ramsay as a flawed, yet still sympathetic character. Selleck and Rhodes display a really nice and likable chemistry in the lead roles; they receive sturdy support from Kirstie Alley as Luther's snippy and sultry girlfriend Jackie, Stan Shaw as seasoned forensics expert Marvin, G.W. Bailey as a gruff police chief, Joey Cramer as Ramsay's adorable son Bobby, and Chris Mulkey as paranoid engineer Johnson. The robot spiders Luther uses to bump off his opponents are pretty damn cool. Both John A. Alonzo's slick widescreen cinematography and Jerry Goldsmith's stirring electronic score further enhance the overall sound quality of this nifty little film.

Mr-Fusion The beauty of "Runaway" - . . . well, there are a few, actually. It's a good marriage of cop movie and plausible science fiction, a nasty villain (Gene Simmons with that creepy stare) and it works pretty much as well now as it did 30 years ago - which is something when we're talking a movie that's as unabashedly '80s as this. Selleck and Rhodes (hello!) have a good rapport, and the car "chase" scene on the freeway was pretty well don. On second thought, this probably shouldn't be as watchable as it is, but then again, Crichton actually manages to wring some nice suspense out of tiny robots.7/10

Jerghal People just don't realize how far practical and visual effects have come until they see a movie like this. Tom Select plays a cop who has to hunt down rogue robots with killing tendencies. These 'robots' are nothing more than glorified trash cans on wheels with some pathetic arm or tentacle sticking out. So no terminator-like adversaries. So to compensate they've got Gene Simmons as the bad guy, sure he looks evil/sinister, but that is his normal expression (he's got only one). He's assisted by some very toy like robotic spiders, who 'jump' on people, but in reality they just throw them on the actors who have to hold them to keep from falling of. It don't even want to know how many takes they had to do for every shot coz they must have all be rolling on the floor laughing each time they yelled 'cut'. Easily one of the most cheesy and ridiculous 'scifi' films of the eighties or even of all time.

kclipper Rock band Kiss front man Gene Simmons, Tom Selleck, Kirsti Alley (when she was hot), and numerous elements of the Man vs. Machine genre highlight this low grade thriller based on a story by the visionary science-fiction writer Michael Crichton. This little movie is worthy of the typical 80s cheesiness due to it's predictable storyline and Simmon's good portrayal as the 80s TV villain. The set pieces are excellent. (when robotic engineering was taking off). One especially innovative scene has a horde of metal robot spiders equipped with poisonous needles attacking Selleck and his son on an elevator. Programmable bullets that turn corners and robot car bombs along with good pacing and suspenseful situations make this a good evening's fun. All of the laughable dialog and obviousness are played with straight faces by the cast, and the violence is pretty stiff for this not to receive an R rating twenty some years ago. You can't go wrong if Magnum P.I and Terminator were your thing back in the day, and Michael Crichton's realistic approach always delivers a story worth pondering over.