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Running with the Devil

A leader of a drug cartel sends his two toughest henchmen to investigate why a shipment was botched.

Top Cast

  • Nicolas Cage

    Nicolas Cage

    The Cook

  • Leslie Bibb

    Leslie Bibb

    The Agent in Charge

  • Peter Facinelli

    Peter Facinelli

    Number One

  • Cole Hauser

    Cole Hauser

    The Executioner

  • Laurence Fishburne

    Laurence Fishburne

    The Man

  • Clifton Collins Jr.

    Clifton Collins Jr.

    The Farmer

  • Barry Pepper

    Barry Pepper

    The Boss

  • Adam Goldberg

    Adam Goldberg

    The Snitch

  • Natalia Reyes

    Natalia Reyes

    The Woman

Overview

A leader of a drug cartel sends his two toughest henchmen to investigate why a shipment was botched.

Rating

5.4 / 10
348 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    5 Apr 14, 2023

    Surely, by 2019, Nicolas Cage had sorted out his issues with the IRS?? Otherwise, what on earth possessed him and an equally out-of-sorts Laurence Fishburne to take part in this third rate crime drama. The pair are despatched by their bioss to investigate just what is happening to their disrupted supplies of cocaine. Now it's quite a trail they have to follow stretching from Mexico all the way through the United States to the ultimate destination in Canada. Along the way they discover that not only is their lucrative business being tampered with, but the drugs themselves are being thinned out using dangerous additives that are causing some of their clients to die the grimmest of deaths - not at all good for business! Now, mercifully, there is little dialogue to complain of here - it's all in the imagery and the imagination and there is fails pretty spectacularly. It is flat, dry and although only just over the hour and a half in length, seems to take for ever to reach a predictable and unimaginative denouement. I suppose what is interesting is watching the price rise exponentially as the production chain becomes a distribution one and every pair of hands has to take their cut, but for the most part this is a really disappointing watch that is nobody's finest work - on either side of the camera. Authentic and brutal at times? A little - but it's search for a more family-orientated rating means it's all just a bit lacklustre. I really wouldn't bother.

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