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Runner Runner (2013)

October. 02,2013
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5.6
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When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.

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Cathardincu
2013/10/02

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

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FeistyUpper
2013/10/03

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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ThedevilChoose
2013/10/04

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

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Quiet Muffin
2013/10/05

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

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bombersflyup
2013/10/06

Runner Runner is an unengaging, uneventful, poorly written and deadpan acted film.I cannot really think of a positive thing to say about it. The premise is a surefire thing, I don't see how they could fail so badly. Give me a bloody reason to care, is it really that hard to do that at least. I mean, Timberlake sits at his computer, with a bunch of people around to distract him while he gambles his life savings. They don't even show the actual poker games or talk about it, they show him sitting there forever and people coming and going talking to him. Show the bloody game, show how he outplayed people and then how he got outplayed by a cheater knowing his hole cards and show his reaction as he loses his life savings as each card drops. If you are not going to give the characters any depth and nothing for the viewer to care about, then there should be action at least, but no none of that either. Timberlake you are being blacklisted.

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Woodyanders
2013/10/07

Princeton grad student Richie Furst (a solid and likeable performance by Justin Timberlake) loses a ton of cash in a rigged online poker game. Furst goes to Costa Rica to confront slick and corrupt gambling tycoon Ivan Block (zestfully played to the slimy hilt by Ben Affleck), who Furst believes swindled him out of his money. However, Block finds himself seduced by Block's lavish lifestyle. While director Brad Furman keeps the reasonably enjoyable story moving along at a brisk pace and brings a dazzling glittery style to the proceedings, this film alas fails to generate much in the way of essential tension due to the grinding predictability of the script by David Levien and Brian Koppelman: It's pretty obvious from the get go that Furst is getting played for a sucker by Block and hence will ultimately roll over to help the feds bring Block down. Fortunately, the sturdy cast keeps this film watchable: Anthony Mackie as hard-nosed FBI agent Shavers, Oliver Cooper as nerdy computer wonk Andrew Cronin, John Heard as Furst's deadbeat dad Harry, and Yul Vasquez as the vicious Herrera. However, Gemma Arterton in the thankless token hot babe role is given precious little to do outside of stand on the sidelines and look foxy. Both Mauro Fiore's glossy widescreen cinematography and Christophe Beck's pulsating score are up to par. A passable diversion.

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rbrb
2013/10/08

First rate movie showing the dangers of gambling especially on line gambling.A whizz kid student is duped by an on line gaming site, so he seeks to find out why from the boss of the gaming site.....The film has a thoughtful and intelligent script with plenty of drama and sufficient action.I cannot understand why the voters on IMDb give such low voting.During the picture I needed to ask who was the charismatic young lead actor.This movie scores highly for me as it reveals realistically the dangers of betting on line.8/10

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FlashCallahan
2013/10/09

Richie is a student who's having trouble paying his tuition.He helps other students who want to gamble online, but for a small fee. When he gambles online himself, he loses but believes he was cheated.He goes to Costa Rica, where the site is generated from, and shows the owner, Ivan Block, proof that he was cheated.Block then offers him a job which he takes, and begins to learn how he does business. But the FBI want to nail Block, and intimidate Richie to help them......The structure for films like this are as old as the hills.Good guy confronts a high powered businessman, said man offers big money, there's always a good looking girl involved, cops close in, businessman tries to frame good guy, and so on.When you watch this film, you could be forgiven with thinking that the makers have completely ripped off Wall Street, because the narrative flows in the same way that movie did, Guy thinks he's made it, but his world comes slowly crashing.Even the dad's get involved in both movies.To criticise this movie would be too easy, it's been done hundreds of times before, much better, but for a piece of fluff movie, with nice locations, and good looking people, you could do a lot worse.Timberlake isn't the best actor in the world, but he can hold his own, and he has decent chemistry with Arterton, who is really just there as a plot point to get Richie and Ivan in some sort of subliminal feud.If you thought Affleck was great in movies such as Paycheck (which he obviously did this movie for), Gigli, and Deception, you've got him back here.He's phoning it in, and you know he just took the part for the money, and the holiday.Mackie is the best thing here, bringing a little tension and humour to a stale narrative.It's a dud, for sure, but it's a guilty pleasure.Take a gamble.

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