Gal Gadot cannot catch a breather in The Runner‘s Rotten Tomatoes debut.
Led by the former Wonder Woman star, the brand new Prime Video thriller facilities on Maia Mitchell, a high-profile lawyer in London on the verge of closing a significant trial involving a ruthless crime lord. Nevertheless, when Maia’s son, who has to reside on a diabetic monitor, is kidnapped by a caller who provides her a sequence of cryptic instructions, she should race throughout town in hopes of attending to her son earlier than his drugs is required.
Because the movie makes its September 2 premiere on Prime Video, opinions have begun rolling out for The Runner, securing it a rating on Rotten Tomatoes. With 15 opinions calculated on the time of writing, the real-time action-thriller has clocked in with a 7% approval ranking from critics on the overview mixture, formally setting a document for the lowest-scored film for Gadot on the platform.
Gadot’s journey by means of the Hollywood ranks has actually been an attention-grabbing one since making her movie debut with 2009’s Quick & Livid. She carried on her role of Gisele by means of the franchise’s subsequent two sequels, which scored stable opinions from critics, although subsequently noticed a fluctuation in the other way with the ensemble crime thriller Triple 9, Kevin Costner-led Prison and suburban action-comedy Holding Up with the Joneses.
Although the latter period additionally gave Gadot her career-defining position with Diana Prince, a.okay.a. Marvel Lady, within the Zack Snyder-developed DC Prolonged Universe, it nonetheless proved a rockier time as nearly all of her appearances have been in critically panned titles. Thus far, her first solo Wonder Woman movie stays her highest-scoring movie of all-time on Rotten Tomatoes with its spectacular 93% “Licensed Contemporary” ranking, a feat that wasn’t recaptured with its 2020 sequel, Marvel Lady 1984, which landed a “Rotten” rating of 57%.
Extra notably, although, in her time since exiting the DCEU as James Gunn set to work on his DC Universe relaunch, Gadot has had an unlucky run with critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Whereas Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile adaptation gave her a quick reprieve on the Contemporary facet of the size, her different movies have seen largely mixed-to-negative opinions from critics, as evidenced within the chart under:
|
Title |
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Rating |
Rotten Tomatoes Viewers Rating |
|---|---|---|
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Pink Discover (2021) |
36% |
92% |
|
Demise on the Nile (2022) |
62% |
82% |
|
Coronary heart of Stone (2023) |
31% |
50% |
|
Snow White (2025) |
39% |
69% |
|
In The Hand of Dante (2025) |
29% |
42% |
|
The Runner (2026) |
7% (At time of writing) |
TBD |
Although The Runner may be clocking in as Gadot’s lowest-reviewed movie on Rotten Tomatoes, it does not totally spell doom for the action-thriller. Because the above chart exhibits, audiences are typically extra favorable of their reactions to her motion pictures, even the live-action Snow White remake for Disney, which had sparked a substantial quantity of controversy earlier than its launch, and went on to change into an notorious $205.7 million field workplace bomb, reportedly shedding the studio as much as $170 million.
Furthermore, a lot of Gadot’s movies nonetheless discover themselves changing into viewership smashes for his or her respective platforms, no matter their opinions. Netflix’s Coronary heart of Stone grew to become one of many streamer’s most-watched movies of 2023 with almost 110 million views secured after 9 months, whereas Snow White redeemed itself each on digital platforms and Disney+ after its theatrical failing. As such, The Runner may very nicely race previous critics’ harsh opinions to change into a smash hit for Prime Video within the coming weeks.
- Launch Date
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September 2, 2026
- Runtime
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84 Minutes
- Director
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Kevin Macdonald
- Writers
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Mark Gibson
- Producers
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David Kosse
