Cat Run

R

Released Apr 1, 2011

1 hr. 42 min.

Action

Comedy

List

20%

15 Reviews

Tomatometer

33%

1,000+ Ratings

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Two bumbling detectives have to protect a high-end escort who withholds key evidence to a government cover-up from a ruthless assassin.

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brian h

I'm in the minority.... but i enjoyed it!!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Getting it all takes a few viewings. A great movie... Funny and entertaining.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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One of the worst movies that I’ve ever seen. I won’t even attempt to see the sequel. I saw this as an advanced screener and did not even care to see the finish product. Garbage!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/08/18

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Throwback film to the heyday of 1990s ultra violent Quentin Tarantino ripoffs. Like most of those films, the script is full of attempts at being quirky (D.L. Hughley plays an outspoken legless man), has several overlapping stories, and treats the very gory violence with a comedic touch. The basic story is that Paz Vega, a high end escort, has some incriminating evident that a group of disparate characters are all after. Besides Hughley and Vega, Christopher McDonald (Shooter from "Happy Gilmore) is probably the next most famous of actor in the film. What Tarantino does so well in his films is that he takes a story you've seen a hundred times before and makes it the best version of that story you've ever seen. Tarantino has a very unique voice in his films, but when other filmmakers try to ape that voice, it always comes off as a pale imitation. The best films that came out of the 1990s wave of crime films had their own voice ("Out of Sight," "The Usual Suspects," "Get Shorty," etc.) and were simply unconventional crime films. "Cat Run" is unmistakably a film that's trying to ape Tarantino and suffers for it. However, what the film lacks in originality, it does make up for in enthusiasm. Director John Stockwell gets a fair amount of credit for solid direction of the many action sequences and for keeping the film moving at a brisk pace. But I do have to say that Janet McTeer as a British assassin named Helen, who looks more like a librarian than skilled killer, steals the movie. Nothing brilliant here, but if you're in the mood for an okay Tarantino knockoff, like "Love and a .45" or "Smokin' Aces" you could do worse than this one.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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don s

Completely unbelievable story with unconvincing performances by Alphonso McAuley and Scott Mechlowicz as the novice private detectives who don't have a client but are spending wads of cash so one of them can get laid. Not enough story line to hold your interest and a too pat ending. The assassins are the best thing about this movie. Both had character and were played well by Janet McTeer and Tony Curran. Paz Vega's talent was wasted here.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Absolutely love funding great movies that never showed up on my radar!!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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John Stockwell

Director

Paz Vega

Catarina

Janet McTeer

Helen Bingham

Alphonso McAuley

Julian

Scott Mechlowicz

Anthony

Christopher McDonald

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Mark Olsen

Los Angeles Times

It's easy to feel sucked into some kind of time warp back to the heyday of late-'90s post-Tarantino crime thrillers, cut-rate knockoffs filled with casually cartoonish violence, quippy patter, overtly flash filmmaking and incongruous pop tunes.

Rated: 1/5

Apr 4, 2011

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Jesse Cataldo

Slant Magazine

The nicest thing to be said about Cat Run might be that it doesn't know what kind of movie it wants to become.

Rated: 1/4

Apr 4, 2011

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John Anderson

Variety

If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with genre baloney -- and enough shoplifted visual trickery to fill Quentin Tarantino's kitchen sink.

Apr 4, 2011

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

Run, don't walk, to Cat Run.

Nov 16, 2019

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Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

This movie is fiercely uneven, feeling like two different movies got drunk and had a sloppy love child that now no one wants.

Rated: 1.5/5

Aug 14, 2012

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Mark Keizer

Boxoffice Magazine

A loud, ugly and terrible movie that doesn't skillfully juggle its various elements; it throws them violently at your face and calls it edge.

Rated: 1/5

Apr 4, 2011

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Synopsis

Two bumbling detectives have to protect a high-end escort who withholds key evidence to a government cover-up from a ruthless assassin.

Director: John Stockwell
Executive Producer: Ram Bergman, Derrick Borte
Screenwriter: Nick Ball, John Niven
Distributor: Lleju Productions
Production Co: Lleju Productions
Rating: R (Sexual Content|Nudity|Language|Strong Bloody Violence)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 1, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 5, 2012

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