Running Cool
Running Cool
R | 15 September 1993 (USA)
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Bone and Bear, two rough and tough bikers ride out from Sturgis, SD. to the marshes of South Carolina to help out their "bro" Ironbutt Garrett, who's land is being eyed by the money-grubbing, domineering Calvin Hogg.

Reviews
Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
cooljkm HI,i was in this movie,it was filmed in Sanford FLA. Me and my wife Karen were in the scene where Didi ran through the crowd at the party....you can see us plain....we also rode in the bike ride to the party spot....don't remember the way...but i have a copy of this film and watch it a lot....anyone who would like to get in touch....email cool191jkm@comcast.net...also..this film was originally named iron butts i got the T shirt OK need more lines so,well we found out about this movie from friends when we lived in Leesburg Fla,we lived there for about a year...i wish someone from the movie would contact me via email....if you do say something in the subject so i'll open it...OK is this enough lines?
xspenserhire The movie represented something that is needed in cinema, a movie depicting bikers as people rather than the stereotypical "outlaw trash". This moving shows a side that I am VERY aware of and that is the BROTHERHOOD OF BIKERS". Bikers are not all dirtbags or low lifes and with the popularity of Harleys especially most are a cut above the norm. The comment from the reviewer from the UK shows this individual knows less than jack about bikers or motorcycles or the love of the sport. The movie's fight scenes were entertaining rather than the "cartoonish" fight scenes from "hong kong kung fu movies" where people fly around pagodas with the greatest of ease. The leads where great, Bone, Michelle, Ironbutt, and Bear lending a truer edge than the likes of the cheappie biker/wacko movies of the sixties. I sit and watch it all the time with my family although I do edit some of the language. I HIGHLY recommend the film!!
bob the moo Bikers Bone (Divoff) and Bear (Baker) visit their old friend Ironbutt (Gammon) to find that he is being forced off his land by ruthless developer Calvin Hogg (Gleason). Desperate to protect his marshlands Ironbutt enlists the help of his friends to raise money to save the land and fight off the developers.This seems to be trying to cast bikers in the role of Native Americans - stewards of the land and the environment. They're mostly sensitive men who love nature and others - any crime they do is only ever self defence and, yes they like a bit of a fight but overall they just want to be at one with their surroundings (and have wet tee-shirt competitions!). This is my first problem with this is that it tries to cast bikers as misunderstood, caring men who have the environment as one of their many concerns (ignoring the effect of their bikes' burning fuel!).This also means that the developers are portrayed as "evil" while the lawmen are portrayed as "stupid" or "corrupt". This then sets up various confrontations in which the bikers come off looking good. Much of this is the form of fighting, all of which is slow and lazy. Having seen Hong Kong fight scenes where everything is choreographed down to a move this is quite a bore. All the fights are slow and without excitement or tension, they consist of a series of punches where the "bad guys" are stunned and stand awaiting the next punch. Anyway, the plot and the fights continue until the serious conclusion where everyone, including the bikers and the developers learn an important lesson about love, friendship and others....The cast are quite good - some of the bikers look frighteningly like Ewoks from Jedi! Divoff is quite good but only needs to give an one-dimensional performance as the sensitive, strong guy. Little Pfeiffer is good as Michele and Bubba Baker brings some comedy as Bear. Gleason is good as Calvin Hogg, but Tracy Sebastian is terrible as his son. All the rest of the cast are so-so, but really this isn't material where a shining performance would be really possible.Overall the film is quite lame, the characters are all one-dimensional with a far too positive shine put on the bikers to be totally believable. The fight scenes are boring and the plot is predictable. The happy "we all learnt a lesson here today" ending is terrible. The only group that'll get a kick out of this movie are those that are or like bikers.
cchampol I think this is the greatest biker movie of all time! It's good to finally see a movie that shows bikers not as criminals, but as law abiding hell-raisers!Andrew Divoff and Bubba Baker are brilliant as bikers.