The Helipad 9/3/21 - Movie Review: 'Run Hide Fight' (*Some Spoilers*)
The Chairman shares his thoughts on the movie 'Run Hide Fight'
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Run Hide Fight
(Kyle Rankin)
The Daily Wire, MFC, Bonfire Legend
Score: 8/10
Watch the movie here.
Last year, when The Daily Wire announced that the outlet would be the sole distributor of their first fictional film, Run Hide Fight it was clear that this bold move was not only going to be a test for the website, but it was going to be a test to see if right wing media in general could put out a film that could compete with the mainstream Hollywood studios. Typically, right of center, independent movies have been aimed towards a very specific and very religious audience and not towards the general movie-goers that would go see The Avengers #12,152 or Fast And The Furious 23: More Fury, More Family. If the right is really serious about fighting the culture war, then they’ll have to do more than talk about politics on podcast or post a YouTube video where they “own the libs.” Up until now, the fact that no one predominant on the right was making non-political (or least not overtly political) art was a not-so-secret missing piece in combating the left’s dominance of the West’s cultural institutions. Run Hide Fight changes this. And that notion alone is what makes this movie so significant.
I have to admit that Run Hide Fight really passed that test. Here’s why — with as little spoilers as possible.
The film is about high school senior, Zoe Hull who, while having trouble coming to grips with the passing of her mother, does her best to save as many of her fellow high school students from a live-streamed school shooting as possible. And while this scenario does seem pretty extreme, the movie comes off as very believable and accurate. It’s very clear that director and writer Kyle Rankin took some influence from the 1999 Columbine shooting because a good portion of the shooting takes place in the cafeteria, which the criminals try to blow up later on. The movie is also very realistic in its use of special effects, dialogue, and firearms.
And while the viewer really does root for Zoe to stop other fellow students from committing this atrocity, the film takes the time to understand why these kids decided to take such horrific action while strictly not excusing their actions. You see, it isn’t the stereotypical jocks or even the nerds that took up arms against their peers and teachers, it was the nihilists, the nobodies, the in between kids, the untreated mentally ill, the ignored, and the bullied.
Run Hide Fight isn’t an overtly political movie, but you do see little right-leaning Easter eggs through out it though. When you see the press pull up to the school in their van you can see red letters on the journalist’s microphone that read “FNN” (hint, hint Brian “Soybean” Stelter). There is also a fairly profound scene about whether one of the hostages believes in God. And guns aren’t demonized. If anything the movie shows how they are a tool for good especially towards the latter half of the film.
One of the best aspects of Run Hide Fight is that is stars absolutely zero A-list Hollywood actors and yet every single actor did a phenomenal job portraying their respective character. In a lot of indie films you get the sense that the actors are just repeating their lines without really much prior experience or they over act and try way too hard. Not in this film. Everyone from the protagonists like Isabel May (Zoe Hull), Thomas Jane (Zoe’s father, Todd Hull), Olly Sholotan (Lewis Washington, Zoe’s friend) to the villains such as Eli Brown (Tristan Voy) and Britton Shear (Chris Jellick) play their parts so wonderfully. Isabel May makes the viewer really want Zoe to succeed not just in stopping the shooting, but also to succeed in confronting the death of her mother and Eli Brown makes you really hate Tristan Voy for orchestrating such a sick and twisted attack.
I have to admit that I was pretty skeptical of Run Hide Fight when I had heard about it. But after finally sitting down and watching it, I have to say it is one of the better new films that I have seen in quite a while. The story is daring, provocative, and original, the actors all do a great job playing their respective characters, the dialogue is believable, and film in general really keeps you on the edge of your seat. You truly get drawn in it. Again, I love the fact that this is a great independent film that Hollywood wasn’t even close to being involved. In an era where everything released from major movie studios is all sequels, prequels, remakes, and degenerate left-wing propaganda, Run Hide Fight truly stands out as one of the more unique films of the last five to ten years.