Ben Affleck's villain is the best thing about the otherwise rote crime thriller Runner Runner, also starring Justin Timberlake, Gemma Arterton, and Anthony Mackie and directed by The Lincoln Lawyer's Brad Furman.
Having run into trouble at Princeton for his ties to online gambling and now in debt for thousands, math whiz Richie Furst (Timberlake) -- whose once-promising Wall Street career was killed by the '08 economic crisis -- discovers he's been cheated out of his money by an offshore gambling site. Richie travels to Costa Rica to confront the site's owner, American expatriate Ivan Block (Affleck), with ironclad proof and to get his money back.
After smooth talking Ivan's right hand woman Rebecca (Gemma Arterton), Richie gets his face-to-face with Ivan who not only agrees to give him his money back but goes even further and offers him a pricy job working for him. Realizing that returning to New Jersey or staying in a seeming paradise and making a fortune is no real decision at all, Richie accepts and becomes Ivan's top flunky.
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