Gal Gadot’s 84-Minute Thriller The Runner Debuts on Prime Video
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Updated · IGN · Sep 2
Gal Gadot’s 84-Minute Thriller The Runner Debuts on Prime Video
3 articles · Updated · IGN · Sep 2
Summary
Prime Video launched “The Runner” on Sept. 2, with Gal Gadot playing Maia Marten, a London lawyer forced into a frantic race to save her kidnapped son.
84 minutes long with credits, the film hinges on an anonymous Caller blackmailing Maia into killing a key witness in a crime boss’s murder trial.
Kevin Macdonald stages the chase across bridges, boats, roads and the Tube, while Damian Lewis voices the Caller in a role the review says remains thinly explained.
The review says Gadot sells Maia’s desperation and moral conflict, but faults Mark Gibson’s script for logic gaps, weak backstory and a contrived ending.