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Runaway
August 25, 2008
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rollerkaty
Category: 1984, Runaway, Tom Selleck
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It is the future. Machines are being programmed to turn against us. Someone must stop the madman who started it all.
And just who could that someone be? Why Tom Selleck, of course.
In Runaway (1984), Tom Selleck plays Sgt. Jack R. Ramsay, a police officer who specializes in runaway robots. In the future depicted in Runaway, robots are used in every aspect of human life from cooking spaghetti and answering the door to constructing skyscrapers. And sometimes those helpful robots just go bad. And when those robots go bad, Sgt. Ramsay is there to take them down with his laser gun and his awesomely eighties mustache.
Enter our villain, the malevolent Dr. Luther. He masterminds a plot to transform harmless household robots into killing machines by controlling them with a modified computer chip.
Dr. Luther may not have an awesomely eighties mustache, but he does have heat-seeking smart bullets that can go around corners and an army of deadly spider-like robots that paralyze their victims with a lethal injection of acid. And to complete his evil image, he is played by none other than Gene Simmons who absolutely steals the movie.
The RollerBlog conclusion: Although Runaway is fairly dated and occasionally downright laughable, it is worth watching if only to witness Gene Simmons in his role as the evil Dr. Luther.
Gene Simmons as Dr. Luther
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