Last week I finally saw the feature film of Runner starring Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson along with a good support cast on the Angel App. The movie production is by 2521 Entertainment and A Broken Road Production with assistance by Angel Studios. Runner was written by relatively unknowns Miles Hubley and Tommy White who both also executive produced it alongside several team members including Owen Wilson. The director was Scott Waugh who has been known in the past for movies like Act of Valor, Hidden Strike and Need for Speed. This movie first was released in the theaters on September 11, 2026.
With Scott Waugh’s experience of directing action packed thriller movies, all he needed was to have a good script and production team alongside well known lead actors and you really can’t go wrong in making this film.
Alan Ritchson being known for the TV show Reacher and movies like War Machine alongside Owen Wilson known for the recent TV show Stick for Apple TV and blockbuster movies like Cars, A Night at the Museum and one of my personal favorites of his Drillbit Taylor, both have a great chemistry in this movie that is very believable.
Ritchson plays a former soldier, Hank Malone, who seems to have moved to Australia and now is a courier and rewardist helping people while trying to deal with his past. As for Wilson who plays, Ben Bishop, a medical courier that flies into Melbourne, Australia trying to deliver a rare organ for a sick little girl brought over from the United States. With a great supporting cast of characters from bad guys to various other good people, this is a truly good movie even though it has some bad language and extreme violence at times but overall had a good message in the end.
Hank and Ben are pursued very early on by a gang of bad mafia type people led by Damian played by Rodrigo Santoro. Damian is trying to steal the rare organ for a client early in this movie by any means necessary.
Runner movie to me seemed to be a cross between Reacher and Tracker tv shows crossed with a more better version of The Godfather. Runner also has humor sprinkled in throughout making it similar to some other movies like this. There are twists and unforeseen moments that caught me by surprise.
Should you watch Runner? Yes you should. You might even want to watch it a second time. What do I give for a rating? It is a 8.5 out of 10 stars or a B+ rating. I really enjoyed it and of course I definitely wanted the bad guys to lose and the good wins over the bad. I think Ritchson and Wilson did a great job of leading this cast and hope they work together again in the future on projects.
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