I’m an Edgar Wright mark, I’ve enjoyed pretty much every movie he has made. The Cornetto trilogy is a lot of fun. I had a smile all through Baby Driver, it’s like they went into my head for the soundtrack, then synchronized the movie to it. That sort of stuff makes me feel like what I imagine ASMR people feeling when someone whispers a pancake recipe or something.
So when I heard he was making a Running Man movie, I was stoked, sign me up.
Glenn Powell can be fun, let’s go.
Then the movie started.
As cliché as the story is, its very timely, and at the rate we are going, set in a not too distant future. Inflation is gnarly, medical care is crazy expensive, and the only way to get ahead is to put your life on the line for a TV show.
The main character never seems to act consistently, sometimes angry, sometimes goofy, but never in a predictable manner, just whatever would be more extreme for the given scene.
Without getting into spoiler territory though, things fall apart about 75% of the way through, its trudges along and feels like they tacked on a more specific ending after bad focus testing.
There’s a bad boss guy, but you never really find out much about them, and at the end, there’s a reveal that just falls flat because you don’t really know or care about the character.
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Think I’ll pass on this version of Running Man. I’m fine with the 1989 version. I didn’t want a retelling of the original, and was glad to see a different take on it. I’m glad they didn’t try a modern “Dynamo” or any of the bosses from the first movie. But after a point, the story just falls flat as you try and figure out how things got to that point.
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