{"id":837111,"date":"2026-09-05T07:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/837111\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T07:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:50:11","slug":"gal-gadots-new-84-minute-action-movie-sets-a-new-rotten-tomatoes-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/837111\/","title":{"rendered":"Gal Gadot\u2019s New 84-Minute Action Movie Sets a New Rotten Tomatoes Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gal Gadot’s movies haven’t always impressed critics and audiences. Her latest film, The Runner<\/a>, set a new Rotten Tomatoes trend.<\/p>\n

The Israeli actress has had several hits, some of them with the Fast & Furious franchise, where she’s supposed to reprise her role as Gisele in the 11th and final installment<\/a>, Fast Forever. Over the years, her ratings have fluctuated from negative to divisive, or positive. However, the Prime Video action film The Runner continues a three-year-old negative Rotten Tomatoes trend.<\/p>\n

Not just that, but The Runner has also set a new record<\/a> as Gal Gadot’s lowest score ever. The movie features an abysmal 9% score from critics. It has a slightly higher audience score of 31%, but it set a new record as her lowest audience score ever.<\/p>\n

The Runner Is a Streaming Hit Despite the Poor Reviews<\/p>\n

Before The Runner, the former Wonder Woman star had several misfires, most famously, Disney’s Snow White live-action adaptation<\/a>, where she played the Evil Queen. The film was slammed by critics with a 39% “rotten” score, and flopped in theaters. Even so, it holds a positive 69% approval from the audience, even though it didn’t become profitable.<\/p>\n

The crime drama In the Hand of Dante, which also stars Oscar Isaac, had an even worse score of 29%, and only 41% from the audience, not far away from 2023’s Heart of Stone, with 31%. The Runner came to make In the Hand of Dante look better.<\/p>\n

In the film, Gadot plays prosecuting attorney Maia Martin, a mother whose world is shaken to its core when she receives a call that she must run through the streets of London in order to save her abducted son while she is out during her morning routine run. However, things get even more intense in the Taken-like action film, as the kidnapper threatens her that, if she doesn’t keep running, her son dies.<\/p>\n

As she springs through the city, Maia has to obey the sinister orders while thinking of a way to bring her son back home.<\/p>\n

Despite the abysmal reviews, The Runner turned into an instant streaming hit<\/a>, and debuted at No. 2 globally. Just one day later, on Sept. 4, The Runner is the No. 1 film globally, reaching the top spot in 38 countries, including the U.S.<\/p>\n

Critics Hated The Runner<\/p>\n

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The critics agreed the movie doesn’t bring anything new to the action genre, and weren’t particularly impressed with Gadot’s skills. Next Best Picture’s Cody Dericks wrote, “The ridiculousness of the script and Gadot\u2019s typically wooden performance make this a workout worth skipping.”<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast’s Nick Schager called it, “Flashy, insistent, and altogether pretentious, it\u2019s a fine example of migraine cinema.” Ready Steady Cut’s Daniel Hart called it, “An embarrassing career low for Gal Gadot, The Runner is a flat, amateurish thriller that wastes a promising premise on cheap direction and zero suspense.”<\/p>\n

Among the only two positive reviews, Behind the Lens’ Debbie Lynn Elias argued, “[Kevin] Macdonald takes a familiar thriller construct and, through the collective artistry of Gadot, Dod Mantle, Rice-Edwards, Hodge and the Freemantle sound team, pushes it into something visceral, intelligent and cinematically exhilarating and gripping.”<\/p>\n

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