Reviews for this film from our members:
- Mario Alegre @ Primera Hora [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Insípida, genérica y nada impresionante, Runner Runner se siente como una producción que pudo ser lanzada directo a vídeo.
- Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- [New – 5/22/14] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Runner Runner is a piece of junk.
- Edwin Arnaudin @ Ashvegas
- Excerpt: Timberlake and Affleck appear locked in an unspoken competition to see who can deliver the most lines the flattest, and for a while the race is neck-and-neck. Affleck loses ground whenever he’s around crocodiles, who tend to bring out a hint of the crazies, but quickly regains his bland composure, further dialing back for a photo finish.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: [W]e’re not really sure what the message is…
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: A dicey melodrama that stacks the deck, meaning that buying a ticket is a gamble that doesn’t pay off. Rent ‘Rounders’ instead.
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Excerpt: Massive holes in storyline and storytelling and Timberlake’s fuzzy lead performance doom the film to major mediocrity.
- Travis Hopson @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Packs mucho star power, boasts a gorgeous Costa Rican locale, and yet lacks the one thing that every thriller needs to succeed: actual thrills.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Dull and perfunctory, this is a crime thriller that sets itself up as a revenge story but can’t manage to drum up any excitement or suspense, and precious little revenge, either.
- Dan Kelly @ Danland
- Excerpt: Despite its immature sheen, I did welcome the movie’s edgier sensibility; it certainly earns its R-rating thanks to several bursts of searing nastiness
- Ben Kendrick @ Screen Rant
- Excerpt: Good performances but, for a film about gambling, Runner Runner takes very few risks.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Glossy, light-headed, and a complete waste of an R-rating, “Runner Runner” largely suffers from lethargic pacing and an uninspired script that never crackles with tension nor tries bluffing its audience in building to a big reveal.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Certainly not “winner winner.”
- R. Kurt Osenlund @ Slant Magazine
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: A rotely formulaic good-kid-falls-in-with-the-bad-crowd thriller, Brad Furman’s Runner Runner aspires to become another Wall Street but the script (from Rounders scribes Brian Koppelman & David Levien) is so generic and predictable that the film barely manages a pulse.
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A piece of lurid pulp.
