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- **Posted:** 2025-11-11T19:52:05.000+00:00
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Glen Powell is in a rough spot. The 37-year-old breakout star of “Top Gun: Maverick” has spent the ensuing three years chasing — and mostly achieving — movie stardom. But to what end?

Besides the aviation flop “Devotion,” Powell’s hot streak is alive and well after carrying “Anyone But You” and “Twisters” to box office gold and spearheading the success of the cute and clever “Hit Man,” which he wrote with director Richard Linklater and starred in. With the exception of the Linklater-helmed charmer, Powell hasn’t led a quality picture since being taken under Tom Cruise’s wing. “The Running Man” doesn’t change that.

The second adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name, after Paul Michael Glaser’s 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle, this more faithful presentation comes courtesy of Edgar Wright, hot off the flameout of “Last Night in Soho.” Seemingly chasing safer fare (read: IP) after that 2021 bomb, Wright’s typical hyper-stylized bag of tricks and cheeky sensibilities are almost nowhere to be found as he injects this, his first bona fide studio blockbuster, with all the energy of a napping jackrabbit. Somewhere in the slumber of this movie, there could be an Energizer Bunny ready to jumpstart a whole city. You even see rumblings of Wright’s coiled-up energy, but he never seems to care enough about this well-trodden dystopian thriller to let it free.

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✍️: August Hammel (augusttheeighth)
📸: Ross Ferguson / Paramount Pictures

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