Who does not like a story of a great success? And who does not like a story of even greatest failure? All of us, we love these kinds of gossips, because we crave for such adventures to happen to ourselves once and we pray for those fiascos to escape our porch. We stare into the cinema screens because those moving pictures give us a sense of life we have never had and never will have, regretfully or thank God. So we replace a real experience with such movies as Runner-Runner, in a desperate hope to get even a tiniest grip of the real adrenalin.
There is always a young, handsome and talented man, who has some serious issues. Whether it is financial crisis or emotional, the movie is about his struggle with this crisis. Runner Runner is not an exception. Richie (Justin Timberlake) is a genius, Richie is ambitious and has the most admirable aspirations of going to the best math school to get a degree. However, also Richie is broke, Richie is abandoned and no one needs nor Richie, neither his amazing gifts. This is a story of how a sweet boy became a runner, and this is how the Runner-Runner begins. Richie finds himself drawn into the dangerous world of online gambling, and since that very moment his life becomes a race. A race for excellence, benefit and fortune. After losing once, he decides to never play safe anymore and under some irrational impulse he travels to Costa Rica, where he hopes to encounter one of the giants of online gambling for his prominent place. However, the above-mentioned businessman (Ben Affleck) accurately decides that he will never fight a boy, so he makes a decision to do otherwise. He offers Richie a job he has never dreamed of. For some period of time, Richie’s world turns into a fairytale and everything he ever dreamed of came to life. This is where Runner – Runner acquires its rhythms, becomes splashy, colorful, wild and tempting. But everything might change in a single fraction of a second. Richie’s world crashes as gloriously, as it was born. The FBI starts an investigation and Richie is their main suspect. The life of a genius of online-gambling suddenly ceases to be so beautiful. This is where Runner-Runner turns into an insane race – a spectacular, terrifying, vertiginous, exciting and deadly race.
No one knows, how the race ends and what would happen to Richie, but we have to wait impatiently to find out about that. The Runner – Runner movie is an exhilarating, astonishing thriller about obsession, unimaginable dangers and hazardous scams, breakneck speed and unique charm of a couple of authentic adventurous criminals. Runner-Runner carries us away into a world of the device which we know nothing, and hardly ever know. However, the film lifts the veil on the world of magic of gambling, unimaginable money and imminent death. We dream about this world, but never venture out to get him. At least out of fear to end up like Richie.
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