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

SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

perbloodyse As this movie progresses it becomes increasingly tiresome until it becomes apparent that even those involved in the making are tired of it. Lawrence Harvey, obviously past the point of attempting to make sense of the drivel he was given to serve up, recites one line so as to make it non sensical. If the story is about anything it's about the way some people accept abuse. Lee Remick's character looks unhappy a lot and actually complains occasionally but neither she nor anything else in the story make the nature or cause of her willingness to accept such unhappiness clear. She does tell her husband, the Lawrence Harvey character, that he's changed, but nothing we see of him either in the films action or in a retrospective flashback indicates that he has. He's a sort of manic bully from start to finish. Nor do the other characters develop at all and both Lee Remick's and Alan Bates' characters' ability to forgive and forget anything up to and including attempted murder just become irritating. I don't really know why I continued watching until the end. If I hadn't all I'd have missed was a fairly ordinary car chase. Nothing happens, at least nothing that is worth mentioning. You have to wonder why these three terrific actors wanted to endanger their careers by taking on something as bad as this.

blanche-2 Had "The Running Man" not been a Carol Reed film, I might have enjoyed it more. One has a certain expectation that goes with a name. Here, however, the result is disappointing.Lee Remick plays Stella Black, a widow who isn't one. Her husband Rex (Laurence Harvey), angry that his insurance company didn't pay a claim for 20,000 pounds, decides to get back at them by playing dead. As his widow, Stella is due to collect a good deal of money. The couple makes a plan to meet in Spain after she gets the settlement.When Stella arrives, Rex is now blond and an Australian named Jim Jerome, and he's totally into the subterfuge. Stella feels somehow unable to connect with him. Then she's spotted by the insurance agent (Alan Bates) who questioned her after Rex's "death." Both she and Rex are convinced that he's after them - he writes in a little book, seems suspicious of Rex, and asks a lot of questions. Then Stella realizes that Rex is also planning on killing off Jim Jerome - and she panics.The scenery in the film is stunning, and the acting by this fine cast is very good, though the only truly strong role belonged to Laurence Harvey. I don't agree with one of the other comments - I didn't find him particularly likable. The Bates character is much more likable. Rex doesn't have much regard for what Stella wants or needs.As far as any plot twist, some of this film was fairly predictable.All in all, for this writer, the film seemed remote and didn't draw me in.

moonspinner55 A nosy British insurance investigator dogs a recently-widowed woman and her "boyfriend" in Spain; the couple is on the run after bilking the insurance company out of a fortune and don't know for certain whether their newly-acquired friend is onto them or not. Carol Reed-directed drama needed more paranoia-excitement or suspense. As it is, the three leads (Alan Bates, Lee Remick, and Laurence Harvey--looking impossibly skinny) are perpetually stuck in a fog, playing a tepid game of cat-and-mouse that seems fraught with errors (by the characters and the screenwriter). From Shelley Smith's book "The Ballad of the Running Man", and not helped by Reed's lack of grip on the narrative (he seems much more interested in the local Spanish flavor). ** from ****

malcolmgsw This was shown recently on Channel 4.I always liked Lee Remick so i thought that i would give it a go.What a clinker.A ridiculous script full of coincidences and perhaps one of the worst performances ever by a leading man in a British film by Laurence Harvey.Just listen to his supposed Aussie accent when he is impersonating the sheep farmer.It goes from oz to Mayfair and back again in a trice.He looks like he has just come out of an ad for suntan lotion.He obviously fancied himself!Alan Bates turns up in Malaga.Why most people at the time had never heard of the place let alone been there.I would suggest that you give this one a miss.