Runner runner
Starring: Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake, Gemma Arterton, Anthony Mackie
Rated: 3/10
Justin Timberlake, and even Ben Affleck for that, are capable of better films. Runner Runner limits them to a rather unhappening casino thriller unfolding into a mega financial scam in Costa Rica where corruption is the second name to almost everything. From Princeton to the bad alleys of fraudulent money minting, Justin almost sleepwalks through the film, in the end winning eyes closed! In comparison, as the wily and ruthless owner of the casino, the director accords some nuances to Ben’s character though that too fails to save the film from ennui.
It would have been much more fun had there been more twists and turns, more imaginative sequencing of events, more punctuations in a storyline burdened by inaction.