Billy Crystal: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked
3. Danny Costanzo - Running Scared
If theres an audience out there dying to see a movie where Billy Crystal has abs and fires an uzi, then Running Scared will meet their weirdly specific demands. In every other way Running Scared is a dud, where Crystal and Gregory Hines play Chicago cops trying to finish one last case before retiring.
It sounds like a solid idea for a fun buddy comedy, yet the film is never as funny as it thinks it is. The banter between the two cops is lame, the drug dealer subplot feels like something out of a completely different movie and Crystal is woefully miscast despite a surprisingly decent physique as any kind of action hero. Hes too laid-back and friendly to look convincing when making arrests, or firing a machine gun.
A sequel called Still Running was planned, but when Lethal Weapon appeared and made all other buddy cop movies look tame in comparison it was quietly scrapped.