Mike's Review: This was an interesting spin of the typical role Liam Neeson seems to have been playing lately but it was still Liam Neeson doing what he does best, fighting and killing.
I didn't care for the story line or the actor that played his son, but the fight scenes were fun to watch and I was even okay with Liam Neeson getting killed in the end. Which is strange for me because I usually hate it when they kill off the main character in a movie. But he died saving his son and even if he had lived he would of just ended up in prison
Best Scene: Bathroom fight scene and ending..
Mike's Rating: Matinee.
I didn't care for the story line or the actor that played his son, but the fight scenes were fun to watch and I was even okay with Liam Neeson getting killed in the end. Which is strange for me because I usually hate it when they kill off the main character in a movie. But he died saving his son and even if he had lived he would of just ended up in prison
Best Scene: Bathroom fight scene and ending..
Mike's Rating: Matinee.
Neeson, son, a morally good person, played by
Joel Kinnaman, is witness to a murder by Neeson’s ex-boss’, played by
Ed Harris, son, played by Boyd Holbrook. Ed Harris has not aged well.
Neeson ends up killing Harris’ son, which
results in an all-out hunt for Neeson and Kinnaman by Harris’ gang of
hoodlums. This action occurs all in one night. The only uncorrupt
policeman, Detective Harding, played well by Vincent D’Onofrio
helps Neeson and Kinnaman.
Harris is killed by Neeson, along with many
others. Kinnaman and his family are safe, but Neeson is killed by a
hired assassin, after Neeson kills the assassin.
Best Scene: when Neeson shoots the assassin with that awesome Winchester
Bean’s Rating: Matinee/DVD-a bit too long with a too familiar storyline
RUN ALL NIGHT was a pretty by the numbers movie. None of the characters were all that likable but I still wanted a good outcome for the son character. I too was okay with the main character dying because he was the kind of man living on borrowed time anyway. One strange bit of writing was when the bad guys were at the son's brother and law's house looking for him. The Brother in Law was either incredibly brave or very stupid the way he was standing up to the thugs. I was expecting him to at least get a beat down.
ReplyDeleteThe best scene was probably the end where Liam takes out an entire bar filled with mobsters.