Run
Holy shit. This was all kinds of intense and riveting. I find it hard to sit through a movie, no matter how short, without pausing multiple times. With Run I didn’t pause it once. Edge of my seat the entire time.
<PERSON> is fantastic as always, but honestly this is <PERSON> movie. She is the real star here. The movie is somewhat marketed to be about <PERSON> character... 1009
and in some ways it is. But <PERSON> performance knocked <PERSON>’s out of the park. She carried out the more intense, nail-biting and believable acting out of the two. It was her character I was rooting for, and that ending made me whoop and yell “YES GIRL” at my screen because to me, the story was about <PERSON> (<PERSON>) not <PERSON> (<PERSON>).
I’m really so happy to finally see a movie that features a disabled actor, but also to not have the disability be the defining point of the character’s personality. <PERSON> was manoeuvring through stunts just like any able-bodied actor, giving a badass character an equally badass performance, and displaying representation to a whole group of people who we rarely get to see on screen (or, if we do, are usually performed by actors without a disability). I just know this alone will mean a lot to the disabled community.
And, aside from the script suffering with a little bit of predictability, the film overall was pretty great. I really enjoyed it, and I didn’t have many issues at all with it. I’m definitely going to be keeping an eye on the team that made this. 577