Though this review of Run, Hide, Fight is rather basic, it is right about what made this movie worth a damn and it was all Isabel May. Never seen her before in anything but her performance was great.

The rest of the movie was fairly mediocre; it should’ve leaned more into the Die Hard premise and away from the other things it tried to throw in. Thus, the film was at its best when May was allowed to be believably tough and driven and at its worst when it started to more obviously resort to pointless didacticism. Yes, we get it, school shootings are bad — no need to stress the point. (Though I did like the school shooter’s line that getting guns was the easy part of his plan.)

What I particularly liked about the film is that May’s character Zoe doesn’t ever show any signs of any superhero capabilities or engage in any impossible feats. For instance, when she attempts to fight hand to hand with a guy twice her size and weight with no weapons of her own, she gets her ass kicked easily (this is what happens in real life 99.99% of the time).

I recommend the film if you like realistic tough heroines, don’t mind some moments that fall utterly flat, and also do not mind one of the shooters waving around the fakest-looking .357 revolver in the history of the world.

May makes this film worth watching.