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Runner Runner
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.
27 January 1970, USA
21 January 1974, New York City, New York, USA
5 January 1981, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
18 December 1979, Carolina, Puerto Rico
30 June 1964, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
November 13, 2013
...it's ultimately impossible to downplay the rampant ineffectiveness of virtually every aspect of the proceedings.
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
October 04, 2013
The movie mostly wants to look timely and seem topical. Instead, it feels irrelevant.
December 24, 2013
A bland retelling of a familiar story that lies in the shadow of smarter and sleeker films like 'The Firm.'
February 28, 2014
Ultimately, Runner Runner is really just a movie designed to provide some background noise as you update your Facebook.
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 10, 2013
The mannered speech is fun, the players are charismatic, and director Brad Furman maintains an agreeably brisk pace.
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 04, 2013
It looks like everybody's lying, and that's only because the acting is pretty bad.
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.
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.
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.