Runner Runner Reviews
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
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
He's back! Behold, the second coming of . . . Badfleck.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
You see "Runner Runner's" hand before it's played, and there's nothing to keep you playing.
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| Original Score: C+
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.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
After an intriguing setup, Runner Runner devolves into a by-the-books thriller.
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| Original Score: 2/4
"Runner Runner" is less than mediocre, but it's not repellent, which means that to watch it is to root for it - and to be disappointed.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Even with Affleck doing his Rat Pack best, by the end of "Runner Runner," the chill is gone.
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| Original Score: 2/5
It feels like a halfhearted bluff and has the stale smell of yesterday's after-shave.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Even with its glossy Costa Rican setting, Runner Runner is a vacant excursion with plot holes the size of a small Caribbean island.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Here is a film in which a man is covered in chicken fat and thrown into a pit of crocodiles, and you still can barely keep your eyes open.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Even when you have no clue what they're talking about, you know exactly where the movie's going and can pretty much tell from your watch how and when they'll get there.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
It's not that "Runner Runner" is predictable. It's that you don't care, either about the characters or what happens to them.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Feels like it could drag on forever, and drag us down into a purgatory of stupefaction with it.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
It is oxymoronically a thriller that fails to live up to the genre, playing it safe from start to finish with an insipid hero, a pedestrian plot and a conclusion that is as predictable as the phases of the moon.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Be aware, poker fans. "Runner Runner" is bluffing.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Could have been a legitimately great film, instead we're left with the trappings of one, with mere opulence substituted for substance.
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| Original Score: 5.8/10
Provides the world with very little except some great clips for Ben Affleck's eventual Golden Globe Life Achievement reel.
Despite [its] stacked deck of a cast, "Runner Runner" adds up to little more than a charmless, paint-by-numbers thriller ...
An uncompelling, sketchy telling of an intriguing crime story.
