adonis98-743-186503 Mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike, whose life is in danger, or his longtime best friend, mob boss Shawn Maguire, who wants Mike to pay for the death of his own son. Run All Night is another very impressive and well directed Liam Neeson movie that is truly quite underrated to be honest. Joel Kinnaman, Common, Ed Harris and the whole cast in general was excellent. The action was terrific with a very good set of cinematography and packed with lots of suspense too. (10/10)

juneebuggy This movie felt very long, not that it was boring just that I've seen it all before from Liam Neeson. He plays exactly the same character here as he has since he started his badass aging action hero career. We've seen this growly, revenge man in all the Taken movies, Nonstop, Unknown. And despite the ongoing carnage he sets off here in "one night" in N.Y with shootouts, car chases burning buildings, stabbings, crazed hit men (Common) it all still felt kinda meh. Here Liam is a booze addled former hit man, a shell of his former self, haunted by his life of crime and laughed at or pitied by his mob boss/old friend (Ed Harris) and his cronies. When his estranged son (Joel Kinnaman) gets marked to be killed by his bosses son, Neeson is forced to turn against his employers, put down the bottle and protect his son at all costs. Some great scenes of dialogue with Liam and Harris and I enjoyed Joel Kinnaman. I also liked the story hook which sees Neeson forced to tun against his lifelong friend and and work with his son, unfortunately the running, shooting, hunting, chasing, and killing, went on and on becoming sorta mindless. Like I said, meh, ultimately forgettable.

Leofwine_draca RUN ALL NIGHT marks the third collaboration between star Liam Neeson and director Jaume Collet-Serra; their previous movies were the disappointing UNKNOWN and the above-average NON-STOP. RUN ALL NIGHT falls somewhere in the middle of those two films in terms of quality; it's a good enough mob thriller although not quite good enough to be considered a classic or indeed a regular watch. The film's very familiarity is what works against it throughout. Neeson and his adult son, played by Joel Kinnaman, are forced to go on the run from mob boss Ed Harris when things go bad, and the film follows the situation from there. It's set over a single night, which gives it some fun, but the story has been done before and done better, for example in Sam Mendes' ROAD TO PERDITION.This means you end up watching the film to enjoy the other qualities. If a thriller's plotting is unremarkable then it must have outstanding action scenes, and the action in RUN ALL NIGHT is fun although not quite spellbinding. The bit in the subway station and the attack in the burning apartment complex are both good scenes but there are too many slow bits in the middle, and the two hour running time is half an hour too long. Collet-Serra can't do a proper transition scene without some lame CGI effects of the sped-up camera flying up in the sky and across the city, which I found quite tiresome after a while.In terms of the cast, Neeson is on autopilot in this one. He looks old and tired and you wonder how much of that is really acting. Harris is suitably imposing as the antagonist of the piece, but his role is a virtual reprise of the one he played in A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. Best of the bunch is the great Kinnaman, of the EASY MONEY trilogy, but he's kept off the screen for way too long. RUN ALL NIGHT is a fine enough slice of entertainment for genre fans but it's one of those films which simply doesn't hold up if you think about it too long.

FlashCallahan Jimmy was a mob hit-man, who was best friends with his boss Sean Maguire. But when Jimmy's son, Michael, is marked for death by the mob, Jimmy must go up against Sean to protect Michael at all costs. Together, he and Michael must avoid corrupt cops, contract killers and the mob to survive the night, by having to......................Run All Night........In a major change of Role, Lesson plays a Hard Drinking, estranged from his family, hard man, who is trying to go straight, but something has happened, and he has to back to his old ways.The above description is something that Neeson has done for nearly eight years now, and although Taken was a pretty entertaining thriller, his agent and the studios are really milking his new action man persona for everything it's worth.Here it's the same old stuff, but adding Nolte and Harris into the mix tries to turn this pulpy action into some pseudo prolific thriller, but it doesn't work, it just ticks the obligatory boxes, and adds a table meeting every now and again with Neeson and Harris, to add a little 'class'.If your a fan of Neeson, you may also be getting slightly tired of him running around like a man half his age, shooting up the city, getting away with it, and building bridges with everyone he wronged in the past, including the cops, his son, and Nick Nolte, who should come with subtitles.It's not rubbish by any means, the cast are all okay, but we've seen it all before, and it really reminded me of State Of Grace, a far superior movie.And if you want the ending to be more powerful, skip the first two or three minutes, it ruins the film.