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- 2025
- Edgar Wright
- 132 mins
- 15
Summary
Desperate to save his sick daughter, Ben Richards enters a deadly televised competition where contestants must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins. Director Edgar Wright's comedy thriller based on the Stephen King story, starring Glen Powell, Lee Pace and Josh Brolin
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A star rating of 3 out of 5.
Jeremy Aspinall
Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) steps into Arnold Schwarzenegger's shoes with this big-budget remake set in a dystopian United States where violent TV is the opium of the people. Director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) stays faithful to the original Stephen King story, as irascible, hard-up everyman Ben Richards (Powell) volunteers for the lethal Running Man show to provide for his family. Avoid capture for 30 days and $1 billion is the reward. But contestants are also hunted relentlessly across the country by assassins, with the action televised to an audience willing to dob them in for reward, all under the auspices of Josh Brolin's scheming network puppet-master. No stranger to delivering breakneck action with the likes of Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver, Wright produces plenty of nerve-jangling set-pieces, while the cross-country pursuit reveals an America riven by economic inequality and manipulated by a self-satisfied few. The episodic nature of the plot, with Richards donning a variety of disguises to lay low, occasionally leads to a lull in pace and tension. However, Powell is a hero to root for, and there are tasty cameos from William H Macy and Michael Cera, whose mercurial rebel lives in a booby-trapped bolt-hole worthy of Rambo.
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rolenameBen RichardsGlen PowellDan KillianJosh BrolinBobby TColman DomingoMolieWilliam H MacyEvan McConeLee PaceElton PerrakisMichael CeraAmelia WilliamsEmilia JonesBradleyDaniel EzraSheila RichardsJayme LawsonGary GreenbacksSean HayesJenni LaughlinKaty O'Brian"Frank"Karl Glusman
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rolenameDirectorEdgar Wright
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Theatrical distributor
Paramount
Released on
2025-11-14
Languages
English
Guidance
Violence, swearing, sexual references, drug abuse
Formats
Colour
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