🍿 The Running Man (2025) was: Better than the 1987 Schwarzenegger version. Not a high bar. More enjoyable than Edgar...

🍿 The Running Man (2025) was: Better than the 1987 Schwarzenegger version. Not a high bar. More enjoyable than Edgar Wright’s other post-Cornetto trilogy movie, which was still quite good. A satire as likely to be misunderstood by the average American movie critic as Verhoven’s Starship Troopers, and glancing at some of the reviews about the implausibility of its dystopian world, yep, they did not disappoint. Easily dismissed as yet another eat-the-rich movie, but as Wright has a gift of peering into the near future — his Brexit-coded “The World’s End” came out in 2013 — if I were rich I would be a tad more worried about this one than something like Triangle of Sadness. The kids loved it: “If it weren’t a matter of life and death it would be great to see a show like that on TV!” Yikes.