2 articles from The Guardian, Variety.
Amazon's thriller 'The Runner' stars Gal Gadot as a mother on a rescue mission across London, following a familiar premise that reviewers found uninspired and derivative. The Guardian criticized it as a low-rent B-movie dragged down by an ineffective performance, while Variety noted the frantic plot provided exercise for the star but little reward for viewers. The film relies on reheated action-thriller tropes without originality.
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A string of London locations can’t save Amazon’s overly familiar B-movie dragged down by another ineffective performance by the Wonder Woman star We’re propelled on to an extremely familiar journey in Amazon’s quickie action thriller The Runner, both in reheated premise and…
A frantic journey across London on foot provides a lot of exercise for Gal Gadot, but not much reward for viewers, in “The Runner.” Hardly the first thriller centering on an exceptionally action-ready parent surmounting various obstacles to rescue an imperiled child from some…
