The Running Man 2025 Movie

This feels like a redundant entry in an already overcrowded dystopian/action, human-hunting subgenre. Despite Wright’s proven stylistic flair, the film rarely justifies its own existence, offering little that feels fresh or incisive. The satire is blunt, the spectacle familiar, and the social commentary, once the point of this story, lands with a thud rather than a bite. At a time when Hollywood seems fixated on recycling concepts instead of rethinking them, this feels emblematic of the problem: technically competent, occasionally slick, but creatively hollow. It didn’t need to be made, and worse, it never convinces you otherwise. I found myself pretty bored.