Ranking: Nicolas Cage's Straight-To-Video Movies From Worst To Best
3. The Runner (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 26%
A surprisingly serious-minded recent effort from Cage that places him as a politician fending off a sex scandal in the wake of the BP oil spill, The Runner certainly isn't a bad film...but it's just not very good either.
Undeniably well-intended, The Runner gives Cage one of his stronger STV roles even if Austin Stark's script has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer and doubles down on the lame melodrama.
It sure as hell looks nice, the supporting cast is absolutely stacked (Connie Nielsen, Peter Fonda, Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce) and it's clearly got something important to say, though the screenplay is also massively hit-and-miss, either going overkill on its targets or missing them entirely.