"The Running Man" may not have set the box office on fire in its opening weekend, but if you're willing to take a chance, director Edgar Wright and star Glen Powell deliver a thoroughly entertaining sci-fi game of cat and mouse, even if it gets its message muddled here and there . That's largely thanks to writer Stephen King's original, prescient novel providing such a strong foundation for the story, and Wright crafting a more loyal adaptation of the book along with co-writer Michael Bacall.

In the movie, Glen Powell is a blue-collar worker named Ben Richards who is desperate to get medicine for his sick toddler daughter. With greedy executives at the all-seeing Network keeping the working class down and seemingly only providing lucrative opportunities for income through dangerous a

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