Review of The Runner (1999) by Matty M — 10 Aug 2015

The Runner (2015) isn't the movie in which the previews make you think it is, and in some reviews it also says how this movie features important information that is a need to know; it's neither. The Runner (2015) is a story about a congressman who at one point was aiming to be a senator during the BP Oil Spills that had all the right reasons to want to help the people. As in any government, business or public projected structure when someone tends to want to do things that are for the good of man, someone that doesn't want you to succeed goes out of the way to make sure any secrets you have are surfaced in attempt to take everyone's mind off of the real picture. Now in ever situation like this a real humans response is to stick by their guns and focus on doing the right thing, and the disgraced persons of the planet fall in line like sheep and turn their backs on the right things to benefit for themselves; that's the real message within this movie and it's the same realism that every real human has always known. Now that this important message that was supposed to be found within the film isn't really in it it, let's focus on what the movie really was about, and was it good?

My honest response on if this was a good movie, I can only say it is a movie; merely a drama movie about the life of a human being and in this case; well it's a congressman. The acting for the most part was at a low par, I believe they lost this film with Nicolas Cage. Nicolas Cage is a good actor but I believe that either he didn't have a good script or their just wasn't enough all together to need him in such a film. The father, wife, and his council did a fair job and it did seem that they had more to work with. The story seems rushed and not completely full, it was if you had to depend on what wasn't in the movie to piece it together to find out how in one minute shit was hitting the fan and in the next scene everything was perfect again. Based on what the previews made this film out to be, focused on what took place in the oil spill, etc... well the film spent more time on the multiple relationships of Nicolas Cage's character "Colin Price". Sorry but I don't think the film was all that they said it to be, and for what it was; it wasn't a very good movie.