- Studio: Universal Pictures
- Release Date: Jul 20, 1988
- Starring: Charles Grodin, Robert De Niro
- Summary: Bounty hunter Jack Walsh (De Niro) is offered $100,000 from a bail bondsman to capture fugitive accountant Jonathan "the Duke" Mardukas (Grodin) and bring him to Los Angeles in time for his trial date. Walsh must avoid a rival bounty hunter, the FBI, and the mob to earn his payday.
- Director: Martin Brest
- Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 16
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Mixed: 3 out of 16
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100Midnight Run has thrills, excellent performances, touching moments, slick plotting, lively dialogue, plenty of laughs, beautiful locations and finely detailed direction. It's an across-the-board success, the best new movie I've seen in years. [20 July 1988]
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100One of the most entertaining, best executed, original road pictures ever.
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80The funniest buddy movie ever and a generally daffy one at that. It features some of the most genuinely stupid and amusing tough guys in the history of cinema, and a tantalizing slow burn by Deniro.
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60Mr. De Niro and Mr. Grodin are lunatic delights, which is somewhat more than can be said for the movie, whose mechanics keep getting in the way of the performances. [20 July 1988, p.C15]
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Positive: 14 out of 14
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Mixed: 0 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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NeilF10I will never tire of this. Grodin is sublime and De Niro proves he CAN do comedy.
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