I thought The Running Manwas great, then I read Stephen King's book. Stephen King's writing has led to some of the greatest films of all time, from The Shawshank Redemption to The Shining to Stand By Me, but for every masterpiece, there have been at least a handful of duds, and only time will tell where filmmaker Edgar Wright's latest dystopian action movie ends up on the spectrum. As of now, critics have placed The Running Man as a middling Stephen King adaptation.
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