{"id":2149655,"date":"2025-11-11T20:09:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2149655"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:09:05","slug":"dystopian-action-reboot-starring-glen-powell-limps-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dystopian-action-reboot-starring-glen-powell-limps-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Dystopian action reboot starring Glen Powell limps along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F11%2Fnewspress-collage-tqahs9jz0-1762889637551.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261762871717\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tmovie review\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"inline-module--review__title 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Rated R (strong violence, some gore, and language). In theaters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Playing an all-powerful TV producer in the dystopian action film \u201cThe Running Man,\u201d Josh Brolin dramatically proclaims, \u201cCritics say \u2018The Running Man\u2019 represents a return to the barbarism of the Roman Colosseum!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t go that far. Gladiators battling lions is way cooler than anything in run-of-the-mill \u201cRunning Man.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But I would say that the reboot of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, now starring Glen Powell, marks an unnecessary return to 1987 and to the last 13 years of \u201cHunger Games\u201d films. Not to mention \u201cBattle Royale\u201d and \u201cSquid Game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s death by reality TV. Again.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this new film, based on Stephen King\u2019s 1982 novel set in a futuristic authoritarian America, theoretically enticing is its writer and director, Edgar Wright.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The sharp Brit has tickled and terrified before with \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2004\/09\/24\/zombie-fun\/\">Shaun of the Dead<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2007\/04\/20\/make-me-day-lad\/\">Hot Fuzz<\/a>\u201d and the sexy horror time-travel movie \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/13\/last-night-in-soho-review-campy-film-gives-sex-the-60s\/\">Last Night in Soho<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet Wright\u2019s signature identity here becomes as anonymous as its disguised main character Ben Richards (Powell), the hunky guy who\u2019s trying to avoid being killed for 30 days in order to win $1 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Where is Wright\u2019s mastery of tone and zany-but-unnerving quick-cut style? Replaced by a cacophony of assembly-line sci-fi noise in a blah \u201cBlade Runner\u201d that, depending on the scene, is either stupidly serious or seriously stupid.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Glen Powell stars as Ben Richards in \u201cThe Running Man.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our hero, Ben (Powell), is a meathead who\u2019s all determination, no personality.<\/p>\n<p>Working-class Ben\u2019s little daughter is sick. She has a fever, and the family has no money. So, Ben heads to the monolithic Network and signs up to be a reality TV contestant to rake in some dough. He winds up on the most dangerous and popular show of all \u2014 \u201cThe Running Man,\u201d where he\u2019s chased around the country by gun-toting \u201chunters\u201d for a month in a race to survive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No one ever wins.<\/p>\n<p>Least of all the audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Ben enters as contestant on \u201cThe Running Man,\u201d a reality TV show in which he was to avoid being killed. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>William H. Macy gives Ben a fake ID and he trains to New York. Competing with two other \u201crunners\u201d (Katy O\u2019Brian and Martin Herlihy, who there is nothing to say about), he dons a mustache and, later, pretends to be an Irish priest \u2014 accent and all. That Ben could deceive even a single person is absolutely impossible.<\/p>\n<p>The Ryan Seacrest of \u201cThe Running Man\u201d is Bobby T. (Colman Domingo), a flashy host who makes grandiose statements with the kerplunk of an anvil such as \u201cBloodlust is our birthright!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Domingo, who is suddenly in every movie, gives his usual sinister-with-a-smile performance that\u2019s fast becoming shtick.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Colman Domingo plays Bobby T., the host of \u201cThe Running Man.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A lot of the comedy, such as it is, falls to Bobby T., and it\u2019s all lame, which is not entirely the actor\u2019s fault. The jokes are just as bad everywhere else.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A recurring bit with a \u201cKeeping Up With the Kardashians\u201d-like show called \u201cThe Americanos\u201d is spray-tan fake and an unfunny clunker.<\/p>\n<p>Even as a vanilla sprinter, Powell radiates movie-star energy. Although he was better in \u201cTwisters\u201d and \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d he\u2019s highly watchable here. Though, Wright might have gone a tad further to make the actor believably low-caste.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Dan Killian (Josh Brolin) is the villianous producer. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At one point, poor Ben shouts at a woman played by Emilia Jones, saying that her scarf costs more than his ailing daughter\u2019s meds. This is conspicuous, however, as Powell\u2019s perfect, blinding teeth look like they were ripped off a Steinway grand piano.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019 shrieking and extreme overacting, by the way, should get some notice from the Razzie committee.<\/p>\n<p>We arrive at the final violent confrontation via the assistance of Michael Cera, who plays an ex-Navy SEAL. Just kidding! He\u2019s a nerd.<\/p>\n<p>Onboard a jet, Brolin\u2019s Dan Killian, who\u2019s the sort of villain who stares out the window as he whispers to you, forces in some requisite twists that the viewer is way ahead of. The \u201cduh\u201d ending is a poorly handled let-down you have seen in a thousand other movies.<\/p>\n<p>If only, you leave thinking, we had returned to the barbarism of the Roman Colosseum.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>movie review THE RUNNING MAN Running time: 133 minutes. Rated R (strong violence, some gore, and language). In theaters. 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