Run, Hide, Fight
Director: Kyle Rankin
Writer: Kyle Rankin (listen it doesn’t matter who wrote this movie. It was distributed by The Daily Wire. That explains everything need to know about this movie and its messages)
Starring: Isabel May, Radha Mitchell, Thomas Jane, Eli Brown, Olly Sholotan
Reason for watching: hate watch
Number of times I’ve watched it: first time viewing
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I wanted to start this blog off by making some kind of crack about who this movie marketed towards due to its distributor being a right-wing news company. But honestly, this movie isn’t so bad it’s good. Despite how much I wish it was, I couldn’t laugh at it.
Okay, I should tell you what the plot is for this movie. Zoe is a high school senior who is struggling with the death of her mother. She is pushing away her friends and her dad, but all of her problems suddenly become very small when a group of active shooters take hostages in her school. So Zoe fights to escape the school, but once she has managed to escape she goes back to help other students escape and take on the shooters.
There’s a part of me that wants to spoil this movie and just tell you what happens and reveal the right-wing wet dream that plays out. Basically all you need to know is that this movie is the epitome of a trigger-happy dude who hears about a robbery and says, “I wish they came by my house.” There is a lot of excessive violence between underage kids trying to either hurt others or defend themselves (and some involving a grown adult SNIPING A KID FROM 300 YARDS. It’s Jake Gyllenhall’s desire for the “pink mist” in Jarhead levels of unsettling) (that’s the only time I’ll compare those two movies. Jarhead is a masterpiece. Go Watch it). It’s going for the same kind of vein of upsetting violence as The Hunger Games except with none of the subtley and waaaay worse writing.
On top of this, the entire theme of this movie is standing your ground and fighting back against terror. Listen I don’t think of myself as a very political person, but frankly the message here is dangerous to young minds. Don’t give me that crap about how GTA isn’t really making kids violent. Kids are dumb and take the wrong lessons from media all the time. This movie glorifies Zoe from a scared and upset teenager to John McClane. I know there are too many school shootings, and unchecked gun use in this country is a terrible thing. But this movie’s answer to that problem is not a feasible one. Honestly, it’s offensive.
The only thing that’s keeping me from giving this movie a zero is that movie is actually well-made technically and not terribly acted. These poor young actors aren’t deserving of the crappy careers that will probably come from having gotten their start here.
We have a real problem in this country regarding gun laws and school shootings, but this movie is not gonna solve any of those problems.
2/10
Until I see another one