Runner Runner (2013)
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 98
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 90
It has an impressive cast and an intriguing premise, but Runner Runner wastes them on a bland, haphazardly assembled thriller with very little payoff.
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 22
It has an impressive cast and an intriguing premise, but Runner Runner wastes them on a bland, haphazardly assembled thriller with very little payoff.
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 23,625
Movie Info
Richie, a Princeton college student who pays for school with on-line gambling, bottoms out and travels to Costa Rica to confront the on-line mastermind, Ivan, whom he believes has swindled him. Ivan sees a kindred spirit in Richie and brings the younger man into his operation. When the stakes get incredibly high and dangerous, and Richie comes to fully understand the deviousness of his new boss, he tries to turn the tables on him.
Cast
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Ben Affleck
Ivan Block -
Justin Timberlake
Richie Furst -
Gemma Arterton
Rebecca Shafran -
Anthony Mackie
FBI Special Agent Sh... -
Oliver Cooper
Andrew Cronin -
Ben Schwartz
Craig -
Michael Esper
Billy 'Pet' Petricof... -
David Costabile
Professor Horstein -
Sam Palladio
Shecky
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All Critics (98) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (90)
The movie mostly wants to look timely and seem topical. Instead, it feels irrelevant.
Top CriticVarious subplots are given short shrift and the whole thing feels more like a Cliff's Notes version of a longer piece than an actual finished motion picture.
Takes us inside the world of Internet gambling which proves every bit as fascinating as you'd imagine, by which I mean, not at all.
He's back! Behold, the second coming of . . . Badfleck.
You see "Runner Runner's" hand before it's played, and there's nothing to keep you playing.
The film will make a decent rental in a few months time. But to lay down good money now, to see it in a theater? That's a chump's move.
The eye rolls are plentiful during this far-fetched thriller that provides little insight into corruption in the high-stakes world of online gambling.
No reason to run run to see Runner Runner.
Unremarkable Internet gambling thriller, where every move made is a losing one.
Runner Runner feels like a movie you've seen a hundred times on cable, and hearkens back to numerous, thoroughly average, mid-budgeted dramatic thrillers of the mid-'90s that will fill programming slots on late night forever.
It looks like everybody's lying, and that's only because the acting is pretty bad.
A generic Hollywood thriller that has dumbed itself down and forgets about characters.
Runner Runner" is a lifeless dramatic crime thriller that is never able to wake up from hibernation. It's like a tasteless alcoholic concoction that no amount of shaking or stirring could possibly add any sort of flavor to.
Runner Runner is elevated by solid performances but, for a story about gambling and striving for greatness, the film (ironically) takes very few risks.
Runner Runner falls flat, and keeps getting up when it really should just stay down.
It's a fast-paced thriller that simply refuses to establish any sense of tension or danger, and the characters are paper thin.
Just when it seems like the writing can't get any lazier, Richie fills in the narrative blanks via a voice-over that squeezes in every gambling metaphor this side of Las Vegas
This dicey melodrama stacks the deck, meaning that buying a ticket is a gamble that doesn't pay off. Rent 'Rounders' instead.
You want the movie to get outrageous, but it's too dignified to go there. Much like its central villain, it can't decide what it wants to be.
Paying for this movie won't make you angry, but it will give you a chance to catch a solid nap in a nice cool theater.
This is more the fault of the lacklustre script than the actors, who do what they can with a story that never quite gets out of first gear.
Title refers to 4.2% chance you have in poker of hitting flush...Any poker player will know that initial set of cards is known as the "flop," a fair description for this film with even longer odds at finding an appreciative audience.
Lame 'Wall Street' knockoff. Timberlake is Leo-lite, but Affleck is fun as the heavy.
not to put too fine a point on its subject matter, Runner Runner feels like a safe bet for its filmmakers. But thankfully, smart playing on their part makes it a safe one for audiences as well.
Audience Reviews for Runner Runner
Super Reviewer
Ivan: Because The House always wins.
Runner Runner is the kind of trashy B-movie that doesn't aspires to build a whole lot of expectation for the viewer. It simply wants to be seen as watchable. The film is harmless in what it presents, but it is a shame that no one really seems to care how effective this film turned out overall. It has a mix of good actors and good-looking locations, but the screenplay is so bland and paint-by-numbers that the sense of urgency in a film that literally has people hounded by crocodiles feels completely missing. There is an interesting idea to explore in the world of online gambling and how they are run by offshore companies, but Runner Runner fails to find it.
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- Richie: I'll be happy to tell my boss that you are not happy.
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