There is a rage in Edgar Wright’s abysmally bizarre The Running Man. Or at least, there should be. There is in his lead character: Ben Richards (Glen Powell), an out-of-work labourer in a future America surveillance state where reality television and “New Dollars” are the coin of the realm.
Because Ben can’t catch a break. Fired for defiantly attempting to save his coworkers from an on-the-job disaster, Ben is chronically unemployed — bad news for his overworked wife (Jayme Lawson) and sickly infant daughter in serious need of medicine.
There's only one problem: Ben, frequently described as the angriest man in the world, is in serious need of cash. So, leaving his ratty neighbourhood of Slumside, he finds his way to the affluent side of Co-op City, base of operations for the pseudo-governmental broadcast company Freevee.
Beaming out to nearly every citizen on TVs that, we’re chillingly informed, watch you back, Freevee is sort of like if Spike TV was elected president. By operating a series of game shows that are dubiously ethical at best, Freevee head Dan Killian (Josh
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