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Runner Runner
Description
When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he travels to Costa Rica to confront online gambling tycoon Ivan Block. Richie is seduced by Blocks promise of immense wealth, until he learns the disturbing truth about his benefactor. When the FBI tries to coerce Richie to help bring down Block, Richie faces his biggest gamble ever: attempting to outmaneuver the two forces closing in on him.
When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he travels to Costa Rica to confront online gambling tycoon Ivan Block. Richie is seduced by Blocks promise of immense wealth, until he learns the disturbing truth about his benefactor. When the FBI tries to coerce Richie to help bring down Block, Richie faces his biggest gamble ever: attempting to outmaneuver the two forces closing in on him.
Actors:
Juan Padilla-Lallave,
Christopher McLinden,
Jordan Beder,
Dayo Okeniyi,
Bob Gunton,
Antonio Esfandiari,
Laura Aleman
Juan Padilla-Lallave
Christopher McLinden
Jordan Beder
Dayo Okeniyi
Bob Gunton
15 November 1945, Santa Monica, California, USA
Antonio Esfandiari
8 December 1978, Tehran, Iran
Laura Aleman
Director:
Brad Furman
Brad Furman
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Appian Way #Brad Furman #Brian Koppelman #David Levien #New Regency Pictures #Regency Enterprises #Runner Runner
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December 24, 2013
A bland retelling of a familiar story that lies in the shadow of smarter and sleeker films like 'The Firm.'
April 17, 2016
The story is so inconsequential that the best performances in the world would hardly make a dent in its snooze-worthy screenplay.
October 04, 2013
It looks like everybody's lying, and that's only because the acting is pretty bad.
November 13, 2013
...it's ultimately impossible to downplay the rampant ineffectiveness of virtually every aspect of the proceedings.
October 04, 2013
The movie mostly wants to look timely and seem topical. Instead, it feels irrelevant.
June 22, 2016
There may have been a good movie somewhere in Runner Runner but it's not even in sight as it stands nows.
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October 11, 2013
The actors hit the jackpot, but only in terms of their paychecks. The audience gets a tension-free, tight-assed, Casino ripoff that leaves them thoroughly fleeced.
February 28, 2014
Ultimately, Runner Runner is really just a movie designed to provide some background noise as you update your Facebook.
October 04, 2013
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.
December 27, 2013
Mixes the vacuous and tedious, slick and predictable, smarmy and smug. There's gambling lingo, racism or sleaziness spouting from the mouths of male a**holes, conversations steaming with banal bluster, and tropical scenes out of perfume and liqueur ads.
October 10, 2013
The mannered speech is fun, the players are charismatic, and director Brad Furman maintains an agreeably brisk pace.
October 04, 2013
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