Runner Runner (2013): Everybody gambles. The house always wins. This movie attempts to throw every gambling cliche at you. It also brings Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck together. In this film JT plays a Princeton graduate student who loses his tuition money while gambling on online poker. He travels to Costa Rica to confront the owner of the gambling website, Ben Affleck, and notify him that someone cheated him out his money. JT ends up working for Affleck and from there the plot takes off (or tries to [or tries to try]).
I will get right to the chase and make this short. This movie was boring. Nothing of consequences happens. For the first hour or so it seemed like it was just an excuse for JT and Affleck to hop from party to party. Even when the "action" actually starts to happen during the last 30 minutes, it isn't even action. Boring! Bad writing and lazy directing made this a snooze-fest. It was rated R and I can't figure out why. No one dies, the violence isn't violent, and the language isn't even that bad. The scene from the trailer with the alligators was a total cop out with the fact that no one dies!
The acting was so bland and boring. Gemma Arterton was only in the movie to serve as a long interest for JT and nothing else. Timberlake was more boring than Oatmeal for breakfast. I don't think he should be an actor. The film uses a narration for a lot of the time with JT as the narrator and it is extremely annoying. The lone bright spot is Affleck who wasn't terrible. That is the best I can say, he wasn't terrible. He was left with really nothing to work with from the script. Aside from Affleck, no one in this film did a good job.
"Statistically it is the best play." Well this was not the best play for the studio who released this film or for anyone involved. This was boring and bland. Very forgettable. I am awarding this movie by asking for my first Refund.
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