‘Run Away’ — don’t think too hard, and this preposterous thriller is a lot of fun

DUBAI: The latest adaptation in bestselling thriller writer Harlan Coben’s multi-million-dollar Netflix deal, “Run Away,” is based on his 2019 book — one of his better ones. James Nesbitt does his James Nesbitt thing as Simon, a decent man with a bit of a temper tormented by family troubles — in this case, his eldest daughter Paige, a drug addict who has disappeared following the gruesome murder of her bad-news drug-dealing boyfriend Aaron, whom Simon beat up in a park just days earlier. A video of that incident went viral. So guess who’s top of the suspect list for Aaron’s murder?

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