Runner 2026: A Relentless Race Through Chaos, Danger & Redemption
A Movie Already Running Three minutes in. That's all it took for Runner to make its intentions clear: this is not here to whisper. Scott Waugh directs with the impatience of a man checking the clock while the room burns, pushing Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson into motion before the film has time to become precious. I like that nerve. The premise sounds absurd on paper—a former soldier, a medical delivery, a cartel, a dying child—but Waugh understands that action cinema sometimes works best when it refuses to apologize for its own machinery. Critics have largely noticed the same throwback quality, while audiences have responded warmly to the Ritchson-Wilson pairing. Still, I think calling Runner merely a nostalgic action throwback misses its stranger pulse. It feels less like a recreation of an old buddy movie than a film trying to remember why those movies mattered. Brisbane Through a Dirty Windshield But look at the frame. Lorenzo Senatore's cinematography gives the Austral...
