
NO RUNNING seem to have the elements of a winning formula – talented filmmakers, actors, actresses, writers, producers and moolah – for a stellar movie about racial injustice by drawing on B-movie sci-fi trappings and UFO abductions. Add to that imaginative approach the filmmakers drawing on their personal racial injustice experiences growing up. With so many Blacks and People of Color murdered, shot and brutalized by police, there were expectations the film would flex some panache. Well, writes reviewer Gregg W. Morris, we should never forget how the best laid plans of mice and men – and filmmakers – often go …