Running time: 108 minutes. 2021.
Rotten Tomatoes: 25%
Halfway through the recently released action thriller
Run Hide Fight, student-turned-school shooter Tristan Voy gives a reason for his actions: his victims brought their fate upon themselves.
“You created me,” he proclaims, waving his gun and gazing into the smartphone camera, thousands of viewers looking on in real time.
But despite being the subject of national news, Tristan (Eli Brown) doesn’t keep the spotlight in this fictional film released earlier this month by conservative media brand
The Daily Wire. Instead, cameras turn to a girl who has spent most of her time trying to stay out of sight: Zoe Hull (Isabel May), a student now in head-to-head combat with Tristan’s fellow attackers.
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Fate has determined that
Run Hide Fight follow on the heels of the January 6 attack on the Capitol. This will no doubt color the reactions of most viewers. It’s hard to sit through writer-director Kyle Rankin’s action thriller without noticing numerous points of relevance with the riot at the Capitol. The good guys are caught off guard and overrun by nihilistic losers, communication failures hamper law enforcement’s response, and someone’s head is bashed with a fire extinguisher, all while the event is broadcast on social media by the perpetrators themselves.
Of course the movie
did
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January 6, 2021
“Run Hide Fight,” screened exclusively by The Federalist ahead of its Jan. 14 premiere, tells the story of a high school senior’s quest to save her classmates from a coldblooded band of live-streaming school shooters. Written and directed by Kyle Rankin, it’s a film that major Hollywood players “shied away” from after the Parkland shooting in 2017. It’s now backed by The Daily Wire, which acquired the distribution rights and plans to premiere it next week.
“Run Hide Fight” is hardly Republican propaganda. It’s also hardly the best movie you’ll see this year. But it’s a serious piece of cinema and a fine place for The Daily Wire to start its game-changing foray into the film industry.