Runner Runner Reviews
Comic Book Resources
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.
3AW
A nifty, fast-talking, energetic film that dares turn the virtual - and virtually unfilmable - world of on-line gambling into a high-stakes thriller full of fights, gringos, hungry crocodiles and a perpetually pouting, glammed-up Gemma Arterton.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Flix Capacitor
A watchable yet utterly by-the-numbers thriller, Runner Runner is so consistently formulaic that you'll know where it's going from start to finish.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Standard
The film moves quickly initially, mostly to blow past the fact that its premise is hard to swallow, but it settles into an attractive pace as the tension rises.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Express
The cast are excellent but the script reveals its hand too soon. There isn't surprise or suspense in the third act.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sky Movies
Makes up for its lacks of originality with more flash than a One Direction press conference.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Quickflix
One day, our kids will ask where we were when we first saw Runner Runner. That, or it'll get lost in the annals of time; caught between the metaphorical couch-cushions of The Firm and Boiler Room.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Urban Cinefile
Risk taking and assessing the odds are the key components of this taut and highly enjoyable thriller in which dreams rely on a dice toss....a guilty pleasure of a rollercoaster ride with high stakes. And a satisfying one, at that
Cinemalogue.com
The eye rolls are plentiful during this far-fetched thriller that provides little insight into corruption in the high-stakes world of online gambling.
Tri-City Herald
No reason to run run to see Runner Runner.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Unremarkable Internet gambling thriller, where every move made is a losing one.
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| Original Score: C-
The Playlist
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.
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| Original Score: C
Grantland
It looks like everybody's lying, and that's only because the acting is pretty bad.
Common Sense Media
A generic Hollywood thriller that has dumbed itself down and forgets about characters.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticThe movie mostly wants to look timely and seem topical. Instead, it feels irrelevant.
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| 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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Examiner.com
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.
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| Original Score: 3/10
ScreenRant
Runner Runner is elevated by solid performances but, for a story about gambling and striving for greatness, the film (ironically) takes very few risks.
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| Original Score: 2/5
PopMatters
Runner Runner falls flat, and keeps getting up when it really should just stay down.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Shadows on the Wall
It's a fast-paced thriller that simply refuses to establish any sense of tension or danger, and the characters are paper thin.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
