“Running on Empty” creates an alternate reality where citizens are offered a chance to know the date of their own deaths. It’s a miracle of science, giving those invested in the information an opportunity to understand exactly when the sands run out, permitting a chance for a new sense of life to develop. Writer/director Daniel Andre has an idea worth developing here, examining the strange psychological areas created from this awareness of mortality, and how the limitations of the future impact a character not ready to deal with his final moments. Instead of a fascinating understanding of behavior and reaction, Andre delivers a movie about a young man trying to avoid a vicious pimp out to extort money from him that he doesn’t have. “Running on Empty” goes the wrong way with ideas, eschewing dramatic opportunity to become another weak, R-rated comedy that doesn’t have any laughs. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com