Yep, crocodiles. Apparently, at some point in the movie, Affleck’s online gambling operator character decides to feed some unlucky bit player to the crocs in order to show Timberlake who’s boss (or because Affleck’s character forgot to pick up ground beef at the local supermarket). The poor guy getting munched could be a rival operator, a deadbeat player or just someone who thought the Affleck-directed Oscar winner Argo was a pile of hooey. Anyway, for those of you reading this who actually lived through the Costa Rican online gambling scene’s ‘wild west’ days in the 1990’s, perhaps this rings true. After all, crocs are plentiful in Costa Rica. But to our eyes, it looks more like something serial fabricator Ben Mezrich might have concocted based on an operator’s horror story of some girl he took out of the Del Rey Hotel who turned out to have a serious overbite.
But hey, artistic license, right? If you wanna put bums in theater seats these days, you gotta give people their money’s worth. So check out the Runner, Runner trailer below, then scroll down a little further for some outtakes.