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Charlie Farrow (Patrick Dempsy is pursued by a vengetul crime lord and corrupt police in the suspense drama, Run. PAGE EZ4 â€" ENTERTAINMENT ZONE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1991 The movie critic Pauline Kael named one of her books Kiss Kiss Bang Bang after seeing those words on an Italian movie poster. They were, she wrote, ‘‘perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies."" Her book came out in 1968. Movies were more sophisticated then. Just look, for example, at Run, a movie that makes ‘‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang‘‘ sound complicated . The movie is a bargainâ€"basement version of Martin Scorsese‘s great 1985 film After Hours, in which an innocent young man sets out looking for a good time and encounters one horrible incident after another. Scorsese was able to wind his plot up into a highâ€"energy paranoid comedy that played like a thriller. Run, on the other hand, takes the same basic premise and turns it into a series of stunts, predictable scenes and loose ends. 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Nosoov‘s Better Equippep 43 Queen Street South Kitchener 579â€"8721 Run offers plenty of actron, but little else "One of the unique shops of Downtown Kitchener" HoNEZF:Z This is, of course, and Idiot Plot, so defined because at several points early in the action the hero could easily walk away from all of his trouble if only he were not an idiot. There are other problems with it, such as when the movie asks us to believe that Boss Halloran really wants blood revenge for his son â€" who is such a cretin that even the old man ought to be happy to see him dead. But perhaps | am missing the point. | want to be fair. Run was obviously intended as a very slight plot upon which to hang several complicated and virtuoso stunt sequences. And the movie does keep moving, with one chase and shootout after another. It is made with technical skill The movie then develops as a nightmare puncâ€" tuated by action, violence, locations as colourful as they are unlikely, and, of course, the instant love affair with the local girl (Kelly Preston) who becomes Dempsey‘s only friend. Dempsey makes several mistakes, including calling the local police, calling the FBI and telling people where he can be found. He eludes capture in such places as a shopping mall, a hospital, a parking garage, alleys, taxis and the dogâ€"racing track owned by Halloran. Patrick Dempsey, not given much to do, does it well, and is convincing in the physical sequences. As a kind of action cartoon, the movie may work as a diversion for undemanding dudiences. But it‘s really no more than a pinball machine, a brainless exercise in how to use action as a substitute for thought. But Boss Halloran loves the lad, and when Denny is accidentally killed in a fight, the Dempsey character becomes a marked man. 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