I wasn't dying to see this new movie Runner Runner but I like Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake appeals to my gay side so I decided to give it a try. I wasn't quite sure what it was about besides poker which I've played two times and discovered that I have absolutely no poker face whatsoever. But this isn't about real poker. Its online poker which I absolutely don't understand why people play. This is about Timberlake's character Richie Furst which is so not a real name getting in trouble in college for helping an online gambling company. He is told to stop so bets all his money college money on a site called Midnight Black and discovers that they are cheating.
This part confused me. This guy who is broke has the money, after losing it all, still is able to book a flight to Costa Rica, rent a room, and have enough pull to get a face to face with Affleck's Ivan Block. Yeah. That happened. So Block feels bad for Furst being ripped off and fires the team that ripped him off and hires him just like that.
Richie is doing well and getting in deep with all this nonsense when of course he meets a woman named Rebecca that seems to be the neighborhood doorknob. He gets with her, Block is all like “I see you met a new friend!” and she is all “Tee-hee!” and Furst is all “Derp! Latina Vagina!” which is totally a thing.
