Runner Runner Reviews

The eye rolls are plentiful during this far-fetched thriller that provides little insight into corruption in the high-stakes world of online gambling.

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No reason to run run to see Runner Runner.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Unremarkable Internet gambling thriller, where every move made is a losing one.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

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.

Full Review | Original Score: C

It looks like everybody's lying, and that's only because the acting is pretty bad.

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A generic Hollywood thriller that has dumbed itself down and forgets about characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The movie mostly wants to look timely and seem topical. Instead, it feels irrelevant.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Various 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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

Runner Runner is elevated by solid performances but, for a story about gambling and striving for greatness, the film (ironically) takes very few risks.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Runner Runner falls flat, and keeps getting up when it really should just stay down.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

It's a fast-paced thriller that simply refuses to establish any sense of tension or danger, and the characters are paper thin.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

This dicey melodrama stacks the deck, meaning that buying a ticket is a gamble that doesn't pay off. Rent 'Rounders' instead.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

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.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 35/100

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

Lame 'Wall Street' knockoff. Timberlake is Leo-lite, but Affleck is fun as the heavy.

Full Review | Original Score: C plus

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.

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