Run Hide Fight

2020 Directed by Kyle Rankin

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.

Isabel May Thomas Jane Radha Mitchell Eli Brown Treat Williams Barbara Crampton Catherine Davis Tom Williamson Britton Sear Cyrus Arnold Nate Boyer Bryan Massey David Docobo Olly Sholotan Martin Elfrey Desarae A. Dotson Mely Quan Tony Spurgin Cindy Vela

Alternative Title

Shelter

thriller action

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Review by josh lewis ★★ 12

mfw the first words out of the school shooter's mouth were "TRIGGER WARNING!"
Review by davidehrlich ½ 29

You might not expect Cinestate — the right-leaning Dallas production company responsible for “Dragged Across Concrete,” “Brawl in Cell Block 99,” and allegedly enabling a pattern of sexual abuse by producer Adam Donaghey — to create a sensitive and thought-provoking film about America’s epidemic of school shootings, but even if you lowered the bar down to the ninth layer of hell the company’s latest and least defensible effort would still manage to slink under it. An unholy cross between “Elephant” and “Die Hard” that depicts an armed attack on a Texas high school with all the realism of Dana Loesch’s wet dreams, “Run Hide Fight” is a glib, artless, and reprehensibly stupid thriller that doesn’t even have enough on its…
Review by matt lynch

Alright. So, I'm not going to make excuses for this. I'm not going to suggest that you, the viewer, owe it some level of compartmentalization regarding its subject matter and politics, its producers, or its distributors (even if you did, none of them need or deserve it), or that you "can't handle it." None of that bullshit from me. This film's smug intent is to make a button-pushing, deeply unpleasant, lizard-brain exciting thriller -- DIE HARD in a school shooting -- out of a slow-rolling, ongoing, real and costly national tragedy. I'm comfortable enough with myself to say that in my opinion it's largely successful at doing that, and it does so without defaulting to a bunch of edgelord posturing or looking and feeling like it cost less than a new car. Movies this deliberately mean don't really get made anymore. All of which is exactly what makes it basically indefensible. Ok, good talk.
Review by Will Menaker ★★½ 5

Not nearly as terrible as "Produced by The Daily Wire" would lead one to believe, but still pretty shitty.
Episode with Podcast About List about this one out tonight.
Review by LunchEnjoyer ★★

it just goes to show what reddit and atheism have done to our public school system...
Review by Dylan Windred ★ 3

This film is dryer than Ben Shapiro's wife's p-word.
Review by Todd Gaines ★★★½ 26

Die Hard at High School
I’m sure reviews will be all over the place, but RUN HIDE FIGHT is a legit action movie. It is one of the better Die Hard clones in recent memory.
The upside:
Do you like badass female leads? Well, Isabel May is on fire! John McClane would be proud. Also, the baddies have zero redeeming qualities. They are ruthless scum. You want them to get fucked up.
The downside:
There’s some paper thin supporting characters, and I didn’t vibe with the whole “Dead mom chat” but that’s about all I didn’t like.
Action fans definitely need to give RUN HIDE FIGHT a fighting chance. It is brutal, and probably not a movie for everyone, but it is definitely a very well made movie with a lot of intense action.
Review by Ziglet_mir ★★★½ 22

Isn’t it a shame that after all your hard work they aren’t going to remember you. They’re going to remember me.
A mean, tight and bloody action-thriller that earns its keep. Run Hide Fight is reminiscent of Die Hard with call backs to its 32 year-old ancestor in the dialogue and its general premise of all the action taking place in one building with a protagonist getting in the way of the antagonists. Disregarding what you may personally think of The Daily Wire (conservative news outlet) this was a great entry point for them to put their foot in the door for producing films. All who may be disinterested because of this have no fear—the film is truly a-political. There…
Review by Logan Kenny ★ 1

this movie has ruined my evening
Review by Ian West ★½ 3

Run of the mill Die Hard clone with stale cliches galore. Subpar pacing, performances, and direction from the same filmmaker who gifted us that other pedestrian snoozer Night of the Living Deb. Bland action thriller hokum akin to some of the paper thin dumped to Netflix red box slop I’ve sadly spent way to much time watching.
Yawn and a half stars, didn’t really do anything for me... I’d rather be watching Cobra or like, Striking Distance.
Review by Jacob Knight ★★★½ 2

A shame, as this is the purest work of rib-poking exploitation Cinestate would’ve had under its belt; a total provocation in line with the Zahler pictures (which remain post modern scorchers) that’s alternately sort of clever, totally juvenile, a little dopey, but ultimately just flat out mean in a way most mainstream stuff refuses to be. Let’s face it - the rest of the company’s output (sans SPARROW CREEK, which still shreds) was toothless junk that even made some who worked there ponder if Dallas Sonnier was a one hit wonder in the talent discovery department.
Instead, RHF now belongs to the right wing dipshits at the Daily Wire, because Cinestate hired a sex pest, lied about it (repeatedly), and…
Review by Amanda >:) ½ 31

Boy, do I have some thoughts on this one!
I watched this film via the Daily Wire live premiere. If you do not know, this is the debut production of Ben Shapiro and some of his colleagues directed by Kyle Rankin. It is impossible not to get political in this review, so sorry about that, but I am not trying to change minds in this review, so don't worry. I am a bisexual liberal moderate, so I do not identify with the Daily Wire or it’s ideals to say the least haha. However, I am sick of polarization and hypocrisy from both sides of the social/political spectrum, so this is not conservative slander for the sake of conservative slander. In…

Recent reviews

Review by khaughton ★★★★

Wow, a movie that will be controversial for many, but is an absolutely riveting experience. The scenes get incredibly graphic and can even be too much to watch if this is a sensitive subject.
The movie is exactly what the summary says. This girl is smart & resourceful, making her the perfect candidate to reenact the die hard storyline. Every scene will have you tuned in completely to see how she’ll try to escape every scenario. Many will find it completely unrealistic and I can completely understand. The shooters endgame is foggy with no real direction, but I felt like the hostage system was a creative way for the director to educate the audience on school shooting protocols and visually show…
Review by James Vilardo ★★½

This is so bizarre. On one hand, just the idea of "an action movie set during a school shooting" is gross and exploitative. On the other hand, the movie is not awful. The two mains are pretty good and there are some decent action scenes. It's also filmed quite nicely with a couple of scenes where I went "that's nice". Also, one issue is that the character's main heel is also the movie's best character. Eli Brown kinda kills it as Tristan but that character has far too much charisma when juxtaposed to our lead who is quiet and reserved.
Additionally, there are scenes that feel grosser since they hit anxieties and nerves about this very possible scenario. There is…
Review by Sarah Cocks ★★

I came into this incredibly guarded, but I can say that the film is fairly well done. I thought focusing on Isabel May the entire movie was an important choice. And I do think it accurately shows the media’s influence and fascination in these events. Speaking from personal experience, there were some inaccuracies in how schools are prepared to handle an active shooter, but overall the film was more polished than I expected.
This film seems to be taking a beating in the ratings when there is a multitude of other films about incredibly triggering topics— many that receive immense praise— so I won’t say that a movie about school shootings shouldn’t be made.
However, I can say, I should not have watched it. It was a very difficult watch.
Review by Lautaro Seminara ★★★½

No esperaba nada, pero bastante bien
Review by Jesus

Buenisima, la tension esta estructurada muy bien y el montaje tiene un ritmo tremendo.
Los yankes en las reviews aca que bobos que son porfavor saludos desde 1dolar1peso.
Review by babibuntel69 ★★★

Film dengan premis beresiko yakni penembakan atau penyanderaan di sekolah dimana biasanya diangkat di film serius atau “festival”. Dengan diangkatnya ke film popcorn tentunya ada pro dan kontra.
Jadi.. Kita akan melihat sebagai sebuah film hiburan saja.
Film ini mengingatkan saya dengan film Die Hard pertama. Dari cerita, karakter utama protagonis dan antagonisnya. Tentunya diterjemahkan dalam remaja.
Isabel May cukup badass dalam memainkan perannya dan mengingatkan kita pada karakter yang diperankan oleh Willis. Sayangnya Eli Brown kurang berwibawa, tidak seperti Alan Rickman.
Overall ini adalah sebuah film survival dengan balutan penyanderaan.
Review by GetSnaggletooth ★★½

Not as bad as I thought it would be. Not good. But not bad either.
--The GOOD--
It has it moments. There are a couple of scenes that strike a cord. The cinematography was decent.
Zoe's portrayal as the main character was great.
Most of the politics are shoved the the background. There are a few moments were the characters will mention "Perdue" or violence in video games. But it doesn't focus on an agenda.

--The Bad--
The characters are unrealistic and the dialogue is corny AF but the main problem of this movie is that the plot is distasteful.
Review by Musanna Ahmed ★★

Surprised by some of Glasgow Film Fest's choices this year. This was a toothless American attempt at Haneke.
Review by DohnJoe ★½

The Right is starting to get better at movies and it’s making lefties nervous.
Straight off the bat, the production values of this film are higher and the agenda less hamfisted than you’d expect from a Ben Shapiro production. Largely because the Daily Wire label was slapped on the film after the event and it appears to be cast with actual competent actors as opposed to the conservative stable of Jon Voight, James Woods et al.
I have no doubt once Shapiro and co get more involved in a hands on capacity we’ll see the quality decline but for now, School Shooter Die Hard is fairly entertaining.
I wouldn’t say it’s entirely intentional so much as the cringe of seeing…
Review by Oldmankrondas ★

STOP GETTING DIE HARD WRONG.
Another witless clone that forgets the gallows humour and the charm of the original. Which would be bad enough, but the overall message of 'Guns Don't Kill People, Bureaucracy Does' is deeply unpleasant as is the John Lewis Christmas advert style Barry McGuire cover that closes it out.
Review by David Marin-Guzman ★★★½

The three leads in this are fantastic - Isabel May in particular is going to be a total star. Looking forward to more from Bonfire Legend.
Review by Logan Kenny ★ 1

this movie has ruined my evening