You Can’t Run Forever

"When you're telling these little stories, here's a good idea. Have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!"

- Steve Martin in Places, Trains and Automobiles.

That quote should be applied to all movies, no matter how cheap or expensive. Make sure you have a point. Now don't get me wrong, JK Simmons going full real life Omni-Man sounds good. But without a point or...ANYTHING ELSE, you're left with a lot of stupidity and it exposes everything weak about your film. "You Can't Run Forever" could've worked back in the 2010s when there was a lane for this but now it just comes off like a TNT movie of the week they play at 1 am.

So the story follows a young girl who's going through a rough patch of her life. Her dad committed suicide, her mom got remarried to a white dude and she's pregnant, and she has serious anxiety. So when JK shoots her stepfather to death, Camron on Paid in Full style, she runs into the nearby woods. JK searches the car, steals her lunch, and opens up the stepdad's phone. He sees a picture of his new wife in a bathing suit and proceeds to jerk off with a dead body inches away from him. I know what you're thinking, gross. Yes, but that was also the highlight of the movie. The rest is a cat-and-mouse plot that has no tension. The kills in this are very low effort. The side characters are just there. The backstory is very weak and doesn't justify the killing spree. The acting isn't bad but it's very poor. JK is the best thing in this, and I mean of course. But it feels like it's his Schillinger character on Oz but lazier. That's not a bad thing, there still is this level of intensity there that for some people can be frightening. But that's not nearly enough to carry a whole movie. BTW, his wife is directing this. So if it feels like it's JK Simmons porn to you, that's because it is. And the ending sucks too.

3 out of 10, don't waste your time.