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The Running Man (2025) Review

Edgar Wright takes aim at class exploitation, wealth inequality, fake news and even the Kardashians in his latest flick, that serves up a solid action-packed game of cat and mouse. The film follows Ben Richards (Glen Powell) as a working-class dad, who is desperate to provide the medicine needed to cure his sick daughter and is struggling to find the financial means to do so. His solution is to enter the titular running man - a gameshow in which contestants attempt to survive 30 days while being pursued by deadly Hunters for the reward of a life-changing sum of money. Ben is kept on his toes by Dan Killian (Josh Brolin), the show’s producer, as he persistently probes his mouthy contestant in an effort to bait him into committing actions that will drive the ratings for the show higher. It is through these interactions, that Killian morphs fully into the embodiment of the film’s antagonist; that being the network itself, exploiting the lower classes for their own benefit and using its po...