Even with Affleck doing his Rat Pack best, by the end of «Runner Runner," the chill is gone.
RogerEbert.com
October 4, 2013
«Runner Runner» is the kind of meat-and-potatoes genre picture that might be passable if the people involved in making it had given the same t...
Grantland
October 4, 2013
It looks like everybody’s lying, and that’s only because the acting is pretty bad.
Irish Times
September 27, 2013
The director and writers give up and abandon us to a soggy mess of uninteresting gangland disputes.
Chicago Reader
October 10, 2013
The mannered speech is fun, the players are charismatic, and director Brad Furman maintains an agreeably brisk pace.
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.
Feels like it could drag on forever, and drag us down into a purgatory of stupefaction with it.
Toronto Star
October 3, 2013
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 pl...
An insipid, incoherent thriller which trades solely in slick one liners.
New York Post
October 4, 2013
He’s back! Behold, the second coming of . . . Badfleck.
Austin Chronicle
October 11, 2013
Director Furman and cinematographer Mauro Fiore make lovely work of the tropical light, but the film has none of the loose-limbed energy of Furman...
The Guardian
September 29, 2013
Odds are you’ll have forgotten most of the film before the end credits finish rolling.
The movie is like a set-up to a set-up.
[Affleck is] the only good thing about Brad Furman’s glossy, Costa Rica-set thriller.
Variety
September 25, 2013
Despite [its] stacked deck of a cast, «Runner Runner» adds up to little more than a charmless, paint-by-numbers thriller …
Could have been a legitimately great film, instead we’re left with the trappings of one, with mere opulence substituted for substance.
Daily Telegraph
September 26, 2013
Runner Runner starts off with a solid draw, then folds on the flop.
ReelViews
October 4, 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 fin...
metro.co.uk
September 6, 2017
The leads, including a demeaned Gemma Arterton, are sparkling high-rollers but no one really emerges a winner from this forgettable low-r...
Be aware, poker fans. «Runner Runner» is bluffing.
The Guardian
September 26, 2013
This is a lazy, trashy film that barely goes through the motions. It wallows endlessly by the swimming pool and then gives a perfunctory...
Globe and Mail
October 4, 2013
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.
Hollywood Reporter
September 25, 2013
An uncompelling, sketchy telling of an intriguing crime story.
Us Weekly
October 4, 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 g...
«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 disappoin...
You want the movie to get outrageous, but it’s too dignified to go there. Much like its central villain, it can’t decide what it wants...
The Dissolve
October 3, 2013
It puts a premium on sleight-of-hand cleverness and glossy style, but it isn’t particularly clever or stylish.
USA Today
October 3, 2013
Even with its glossy Costa Rican setting, Runner Runner is a vacant excursion with plot holes the size of a small Caribbean island.
Detroit News
October 4, 2013
You see «Runner Runner’s» hand before it’s played, and there’s nothing to keep you playing.
