“Range Runners” (** out of four) was a thoroughly predictable suspense melodrama about an athletic woman (Celeste M. Cooper) hiking along on an isolated trail who is besieged and tormented by (what else?) two redneck hillbillies (Sean Patrick Leonard and Michael B. Woods) who want to steal her backpack but don’t count on her turning the tables against them and attempting to escape. Strictly for those who’ve never heard of or seen “Deliverance”, “Mother’s Day”, or even “Wrong Turn”; relatively well-made and well-acted but is overly familiar and overlong at nearly two hours. Bravura rock-to-the-head finale, though.

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