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The first step of his plan bears more than a passing resemblance to Ledger’s villain’s too: a van, as opposed to a bus, bursts through the wall of the school dining hall, delivering a near-identical shock-and-awe entrance. (You may find it easier to believe than I did that a homicidal teenager would actually behave like this.) Where to begin? Tristan Voy (Eli Brown), the ringleader of the four shooters, is essentially Heath Ledger’s Joker: Senior Year, down to the tangled, floppy hair, peacocking speeches, creepy-flamboyant intonation, and unsettling habit of fiddling with knives. A handful of of shots have been cribbed from elsewhere – Jurassic Park, mainly – but overall, Run Hide Fight is well and truly in the fanboyish thrall of Nolan’s 2008 Batman film, to the point that it often feels like an insanely poor-taste experiment. The problem with Kyle Rankin’s film isn’t that it treats its incendiary subject matter as popcorn fodder per se: it’s that, either by accident or design, it is in thrall to one extremely well-known modern multiplex classic in particular, which is Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. Played by Isabel May, she is the steely teenage heroine of Run Hide Fight, a stupefyingly ill-judged high school shooting thriller which premiered at the Venice Film Festival this week.
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Zoe Hull is the kind of character you can imagine Jennifer Lawrence having a shot at ten years ago, though perhaps we should all be very glad that she didn’t. Dir: Kyle Rankin Starring: Isabel May, Thomas Jane, Radha Mitchell, Eli Brown, Olly Sholotan, Treat Williams, Cyrus Arnold, Catherine Davis, Britton Sear