the run man be often dismiss a be just another arnie action thriller full of explosion and bad pun and gunfire and and to be fair and there be a lot of that in it . people use to look at it and compare it to the terminator series and say it be one of the poorer schwarzenegger film . but and give it 18 year and and you find yourself be able to appreciate it in a different light . rather than just be another brainless action film and it work very well a a parody of reality tv . it be quite different to the stephen king book and true and but i doubt whether hollywood and with it love of upbeat ending and so call ordinary guy who turn out to have the skill of a trained commando and would have accept it in it current form . but and on with the review . ben richards ( arnold schwarzenegger ) be a cop work in a dystopian united state where democracy be a thing of the past and and the entire country be rule by a government or medium conglomerate amalgamation . the economy be in tatter and food be scarce and the state keep people distract by produce sadistic gameshows for them to watch and like jump for dollar and where people jump for money over a pit of rabid dog and and the most popular one be the run man and a gameshow host by the slimy damian killian ( play by the entertaining richard dawson ) where suppose criminal be hunt down by theatrical and pro wresting esquire talker . some and however and try and speak up against the government . when a group of hungry people hold a protest in the town of bakersfield and california and a helicopter pilot by richards be send to calm ( i. e. kill ) the protest . when richards refuse to fire on innocent people and he be arrest and frame for the murder of the people in the crowd . he be sentence to a slave labour camp and but escape with the aid of a resistance leader ( yaphet kotto ) and go on the run . however and his freedom do not last long and and after he kidnap network employee amber mendez ( marita conchita alonso ) in an attempt to escape those pursue him and he find himself take prisoner again and but this time he be force to appear on the run man . and there and of course and the entire film kick into standard arnie mode . richards be launch into the post apocalyptic wasteland of los angeles ( why be la always destroy in these dystopian world . ) and force to run from the talker and along with two other prisoner who escape from the labour camp with him . amber also become curious about richards protestation of innocence and and discovers he be frame . guess what happen to her and then . so and a amber and richards and the two other guy run around try to avoid the stalker and we soon become aware that richards be no ordinary cop . he super arnie and the unkillable one man army who can collapse evil corporate dictatorship and fight obese men cover in christmas light all while be just your average american guy with an austrian accent . yes and the remainder of the film become dumb and loud and classic 80 arnie fun . there a lot of excite fight sequence and the trademark dreadful pun ( he have to split be my favourite ) and and the general formulaic final confrontation and happy end . it a lot of fun watch killian react to it in the typical wholesome gameshow host way and as well and and some of the funny moment in the show revolve around the contrast between his interaction with the crowd a the seemingly benevolent host ( watch out for the cursing old lady . ) and the cold and cyncial man he be in reality who will do anything to increase rating . if you expect a high brow and intelligent film and you will be disappoint . but if you want a great 80 flick and well and this be it . but the great thing about this film be it be quite prophetic . if you look at the entertainment we have today and you will have notice the way reality tv be go nowadays show feature people willing to put themselves through anything for five minute of fame and and producer all too willing to let them humiliate themselves on tv . it not too far a leap to imagine that some vile tv exec out there have be try to get the right to show people be execute live on tv . we have already have that and however and with the ghoulish al qaida hostage behead video post on the internet . it seem that in the current climate and at least some people be perfectly fine with watch real death on their television set . with that in mind and and couple with the fact that everything these day appear to be a revival of the 80 and you have to be impress by the far sightedness of this film . of course and we haven not reach there yet and a it terrorists and rather than the mainstream medium and who have buy u easily available program feature real human death and but you just have to wonder how long it be before some exec decides to see if he can find a way of pitch a show that combine people desire for entertainment and desire to indulge their morbid curiosity .