A 17-year-old girl uses her wits, survival skills, and compassion to fight for her life, and those of her fellow classmates, against a group of live-streaming school shooters.
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Just watch it.
It probably won't air much in the states because it has a "School Shooter" theme, but it is GREAT.
It may not be a 10, but it leaves you feeling like the cat that ate the canary (even if you have to go through some pain to get there, emotionally and otherwise).
8.5/10 but when the credits are rolling and the closing theme is playing, you'll have a 10/10 serotonin rush. I promise.
Please DON'T make a sequel...
The actual review:
The subject matter alone—school shootings—presents an almost unwinnable conundrum for any filmmaker.
I had never heard of
Run Hide Fight, and that is a shame. This is not
Die Hard. It is not merely a film about a reluctant hero or a displaced action hero. It is a movie that deserves to be discussed and dissected—to inspire both thoughtful agreement and contemptuous disagreement.
Its subject is a hard truth.
It is rare to encounter a genuinely broken hero making genuinely altruistic decisions. There should be pages upon pages of discussion about the moral questions this film poses.
This is a true neo-Western, in which the hero makes hard choices, each carrying significant consequences. Without poking the bear too aggressively, the film possesses more of an Old Testament vision of moral justice than a New Testament spirit of divine forgiveness.
Zoe makes decisions on Earth, about Earth—and about who should remain here.
I loved this film. I also believe it attempts to confront an almost impossible subject in a raw and predominantly realistic fashion.
I cried through the closing credits while thinking of Ralph Hinkley and “Operation Spoilsport.” Here, however, the entire world has been compressed to the size of a small high school.
This is an awesome, challenging, and difficult film about flawed people—and about how they continue to function while broken. Help arrives too late. Sometimes the hero becomes both judge and executioner, even though the film demonstrates that the role of executioner can corrupt as much as it can conceivably save.
A truly remarkable film.
