THE RUNNING MAN is a light and breezy thriller with a Spanish setting for the most part. The premise is good - another spin on the old 'insurance scam' plot - but unfortunately it devolves into a love triangle for the most part and dawdles along for much of the running time. Laurence Harvey is always good value as the man who fakes his own death in order to get one over a company he believes betrayed him, and Lee Remick does her best as his wife; Alan Bates is also good value as the dogged investigator. But the script is hardly zingy, and once the action shifts to Spain things slow down to siesta-speed. It's a bit beneath the usual fare put out by director Carol Reed.
Review of The Running Man
