Cat Run (2011)

15% of critics liked it
(13 reviews)
39% of users liked it
(1,158 ratings)

Anthony always dreamed of being a famous chef. Julian only thought about women. With neither really working out, the childhood best friends decide to start a detective agency. Unfortunately for them, on their first case they must help protect a sexy, high class escort who holds the key evidence to a… More Anthony always dreamed of being a famous chef. Julian only thought about women. With neither really working out, the childhood best friends decide to start a detective agency. Unfortunately for them, on their first case they must help protect a sexy, high class escort who holds the key evidence to a scandalous cover up. The two bumbling detectives soon find themselves running from the mob, a corrupt US Senator, and a ruthless Mary Poppins-like assassin - all of whom would stop at nothing to hide the truth. It's just an average day for two bumbling losers. -- (c) Lleju

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Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 42 min.
Directed By: John Stockwell
Genres: Drama, Action & Adventure, Comedy

In Theaters: Apr 1, 2011 Limited
On DVD: Jun 19, 2012
Studio: Paladin

Critic Reviews

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
It's easy to feel sucked into some kind of time warp back to the heyday of late-'90s post-Tarantino crime thrillers, cut-rate knockoffs filled with casually cartoonish violence, quippy patter, overtly flash filmmaking and incongruous pop tunes.
John Anderson, Variety
If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with genre baloney -- and enough shoplifted visual trickery to fill Quentin Tarantino's kitchen sink.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Though John Stockwell's action comedy is shamelessly derivative, his enthusiastic cast propels it much further than it should go.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
An incoherent hybrid of buddy movie, "Girls Gone Wild" episode and James Bond spoof that employs cheap cinematic tricks like multiple split screens for no apparent purpose.
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter
A brazenly efficient and articulate female assassin nearly worthy of a Tarantino or Coen Brothers movie sticks out from amidst the schlocky criminal muck of Cat Run, a self-consciously sleazy comic crime saga composed of facetious elements.
Michelle Orange, Village Voice
Director John Stockwell uses split screens, a blaxploitation soundtrack, and hammy, Get Smart sound effects to put some old-school spring in Cat Run's step. It makes for an odd combination with the film's ecstatic, viscera-laden violence.
Mark Keizer, Boxoffice Magazine
A loud, ugly and terrible movie that doesn't skillfully juggle its various elements; it throws them violently at your face and calls it edge.
Jesse Cataldo, Slant Magazine
The nicest thing to be said about Cat Run might be that it doesn't know what kind of movie it wants to become.
Ethan Alter, NYC Film Critic
An extended trailer masquerading as a feature film
Scott Tobias, AV Club
Words like "smug," "derivative," and "shallow" could all be fairly applied to the film, but as a piece of late-night exploitation, it delivers the violence and nudity with the regularity of an IV drip, and some familiar faces in the cast help class it up.
Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com
Bullets, babes, perverts, Euro travel, secret documents, hitmen, car bombs, and testicular torture. Oh my.
Mark R. Leeper, Mark Leeper's Reviews
Made for today it just is more chaotic, has more nudity, and had more violence including some slightly nauseating scenes of torture. Otherwise the film is funny and fun, a fast, entertaining ride.
Nick Schager, Time Out New York
A third-generation Tarantino rip-off distinguished only by its equal-opportunity nudity.

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Panta O

What a waste of time! I watched this movie manly because it was made in Montenegro and I am familiar with most of the places there... but I can tell you that it's not worth spending more than five minutes watching it - at the beginning... if you like naked girls scenes… More
What a waste of time! I watched this movie manly because it was made in Montenegro and I am familiar with most of the places there... but I can tell you that it's not worth spending more than five minutes watching it - at the beginning... if you like naked girls scenes (actually even those girls were not very classy). Having cravings for a movie with gaping holes in a plot, soft porn, stupidity, old Eastern European cars, worst of the European, American and Balkan actors, lots of violence and blood - this is your film!
Deb S

The story concerns a pair of American dudes living in Europe who start a detective agency as a lark. They are joined by Dexter, a Desert Storm veteran, formerly homeless, triple-amputee receptionist played by D.L. Hughley. Our two wanna be detectives soon find themselves in pursuit of… More
The story concerns a pair of American dudes living in Europe who start a detective agency as a lark. They are joined by Dexter, a Desert Storm veteran, formerly homeless, triple-amputee receptionist played by D.L. Hughley. Our two wanna be detectives soon find themselves in pursuit of a globe-trotting single-mom call girl Caterina (a striking Paz Vega) caught up in a sex scandal involving a corrupt U.S. secretary of defense (actor Christopher McDonald). Cat escapes with a highly incriminating video so the gangsters send an assassin after her, actress Janet McTeer, (who looks and acts like a prim Mary Poppins type but goes about her business with pitiless efficiency) a merciless hit woman and torturer who have no qualms about snipping off noses, fingers and male genitalia and identifies herself as Virginia Woolf or Emily Bronte to her victims. <a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=mlmlj5" target="_blank"><img src="http://i44.tinypic.com/mlmlj5.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a> <a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=ofpu7t" target="_blank"><img src="http://i43.tinypic.com/ofpu7t.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a>

Cast

            Paz Vega as Catalina Rona

            Janet McTeer as Helen Bingham

            Alphonso McAuley as Julian Simms

            Christopher McDonald as Bill Krebb

            Scott Mechlowicz as Anthony Hester

            Tony Curran as Sean Moody

            Karel Roden as Carver

            D.L. Hughley as Dexter

            Michelle Lombardo as Stephanie

            Radik Golovkov as Ryder

            Branko Djuric as Branko Jakovic

            Gordan Kicic as Bob Razwell

            Albert Pérez as Elpido Rona

            Caleb Vela Poquet as Blas Rona

            Heather Chasen as Bingham's Mom

            Jela Gavrilovic as Grushenka

            Michael Sopko as Shelton

            Vanja Govorko as Mrs. Jakovic

            Jovan Krstic as Bahta

            Jean-Christophe Bouvet as Dobber

            Milorad Kapor as Hans

            Dasa Zivkovic as Jieva

            Ivana Pekovic as Nastusya

            Steve Agnew as U.S. Tourist

            William O. Perkins III as Guard #1

            Slobodan Ninkovic as Theater Owner

            Ivanka Bozinovic as Hotel Receptionist

            Stevan Radusinovic as Ivan

            Kaloian Vodenicarov as Abusive Man

            Slobodan Marunic as Sava

            Ken Phillips as Gerry Catch

            Pigi Miodrag Radevic as Very Old Man

            Neil Nolan as News Anchor

            Ana Sakic as Young Russian Woman

            Nenad Stefanovic as Masturbating Man

            Mila Kaladjurdevic as Tall Brunette

            Marija Tonic as French Blonde

            Biljana Hresnjek as French Redhead Sabina

            Miodrag Kadic as Young Cop

            Petar Buric as Fit Young Porter

            Benjamin Mustelaj as Gypsy Boy

            Olga Astanaskaja as Abused Woman

            Risto Kreckovic as Magician #1

            Filip Dzigic as Magician #2

            Zoran Dzigic as Magician #3

            Davor Dragojevic as Magician #4

            Zarko Stanisic as Juggler

            Alesandar Tomovic as Eastern European Man

            Dijana Bralovic as Eastern European Woman

            William McBain as Scotsman

            Stephanie Perkins as News Reporter

            Suzana Purkovic as Maid

            Viktor Boroja as Baby Alex

            Louis P. Thybulle as Lleju Commando

            Slobodan Pavelkic as Slobodan
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