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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So when I heard he was making a Running Man movie, I was stoked, sign me up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Glenn Powell can be fun, let’s go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then the movie started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As clich\u00e9 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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