"This game is no game," warns Colman Domingo's TV host in The Running Man, a new Stephen King adaptation that should be a pulse-pounding thrill ride, but is instead a disappointingly damp squib.
The game in question is the titular Running Man, a high-stakes, televised contest where contestants must outrun a team of expert killers ruthlessly hunting them down, with a huge cash prize at stake. Contestants can go anywhere in any disguise, but they must survive 30 days to win the jackpot: a feat no one has ever achieved.
