Runner Runner Reviews

Packs mucho star power, boasts a gorgeous Costa Rican locale, and yet lacks the one thing that every thriller needs to succeed: actual thrills.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Not even a stellar turn from Ben Affleck can completely save Runner Runner from its banal, brainless script. Vacant performances from Justin Timberlake and Gemma Arterton only add to the sense of overwhelming futility.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

A bland and unsophisticated crime thriller set in the world of online gambling which sees Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck go head to head and through the motions.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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

Watching Brad Furman's tedious 'Runner Runner' feels like learning the rules of a card game you don't want to play.

Full Review | Original Score: *

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

Exactly the kind of movie that should be lost in the cracks.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

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

Feels like it was made by people who saw Wall Street and Rounders and thought they were just too damn exciting.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Forgettable fun for a Saturday afternoon on cable, but don't bet on this to be a worthwhile experience at the theater.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.6/5

"Runner Runner" comes up short of being a full house at the movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.4/5

The director and writers give up and abandon us to a soggy mess of uninteresting gangland disputes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The ultimately forgettable Runner Runner is, for a gambling film, markedly risk-averse.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The only passion attached to this production is Lab Colour Timer, Jim Passon.

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Runner Runner is a run-of-the-mill rise-and-fall story, treating its hero to fabulous, exotic luxury before tugging the rug out from under him.

Full Review | Original Score: C

'Runner Runner' is a thriller that doesn't want to do the leg work to actually be a good thriller. (Full Content Review for Parents also available)

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Ben Affleck doesn't do "sinister."

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

A 50-50 bet for anyone fancying a Saturday night popcorn punt.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

In poker terms, Runner Runner is the player who wins an average stack of chips, bets moderately, cashes out even and leaves before the game gets interesting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Like a game of online poker, the thrills in Runner Runner come in small increments. Pretty but vacant, it's unremarkable and entirely forgettable.

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