SummaryBrooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon (Liam Neeson), once known as “The Gravedigger,” has seen better days. Longtime best friend of mob boss Shawn Maguire (Ed Harris), Jimmy, now 55, is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective (Vincent D'Onofrio) who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. Late...
SummaryBrooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon (Liam Neeson), once known as “The Gravedigger,” has seen better days. Longtime best friend of mob boss Shawn Maguire (Ed Harris), Jimmy, now 55, is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective (Vincent D'Onofrio) who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. Late...
Even though it feels as if we’ve seen this movie before, Run All Night is a stylish and kinetic thriller, with Neeson at his gritty, world-weary best, some of the coolest camera moves in recent memory and a Hall of Fame villain in the great Ed Harris.
Harris, crinkly and laser-eyed, has enough gravity to hang with Neeson. Their scenes together anchor a movie that gets away from itself at times and relies on the tired family-in-jeopardy final act.
THIS MOVIE LIKE OMFG this is the best movie of the year so far. didn't expect much out of it at all and I got a masterpiece I thought it was even a little better than mad max a movie I was dying to see and that turned out great I would give it a 9/10 but this movie s laim neeson's best movie by far
I really liked this movie, and the actors. Lots of good action and it made sense. It was easy to follow and I felt bad for the son as well as the father. I would see it again.
The teaming of Neeson/Harris was a superior choice. Their movie RAN is better than any of the "Taken" movies that Neeson is so well noted for. The thriller/action story line is simple to follow. No (3) sub-plots, 18 different people/names to remember or not being able to understand every 3rd word of the dialog. I could have gone the next day and sat thru the entire movie again and enjoy it as if I first seen it. A mob type movie that would have made the Mafia proud. Neeson said once in an interview that he is getting to old to be on the screen as a tough guy beating the hell out of two people at the same time. He may be in his sixties but it sure doesn't show on the screen. He pulls off the tough guy effortlessly. If you enjoyed the "Taken" series you'll walk away from RAN completely satisfied. Can't wait to make this movie a part of my dvd collection.
Voici le géant Liam Neeson en homme de main, exécuteur des basses besognes, homme de confiance et alcoolique invétéré sur le retour, vieux de la vieille, fidèle lieutenant toujours aux ordres de son parrain et ami Ed Harris. Or à la suite d'un concours de circonstances impromptu, voilà-t-y pas qu'il flingue le fiston très con de son parrain... pour protéger son fiston à lui qu'il ne voit plus depuis des années !
Alors, pensez donc, le parrain a beau être un pote de 30 ans de notre pauvre Liam, il n'en est pas moins super vénère : il réclame sa tête mais aussi celle de son fils (le fils de l'alcoolo irlandais -pléonasme-, j'espère que vous suivez quand même) parce qu'il est du genre "dent pour dent" et qu'en plus il a la dent dure, le vieux mafieux.
Et putain, il est vieux le parrain incarné avec aplomb par Ed Harris, dans les 80 piges au compteur environ mais on ne compte plus à cet âge-là. D'ailleurs, notre grand Liam ne se fait plus tout jeune lui non plus et le retraité enchaîne les bastons et les fusillades comme un jeune chien fou dans un jeu de quilles. Papy, tu vois, il envoit du bois.
Un flicard a aussi la dent dure à son égard, joué par Vincent D'Onofrio, préretraité ou presque, vétéran de "New York section criminelle", mais également le marquant "Engagé Baleine" de... Full Metal Jacket ! oué ça remonte à... pffiou !
Attendez, ce n'est pas terminé, un autre Papy fait une apparition, quasi-fantomatique : on dirait Dieu le père en personne, environ 90 balais... ouais, c'est bien Nick Nolte, vous ne rêvez pas ! il m'a fait peur.
Alors le film qui se déroule surtout la nuit se veut un modèle de rédemption des truands à qui on apprend plus à faire la grimace... et bien sûr la rivalité de deux fortes personnalités qui se respectent mais s'affrontent à cause des circonstances. Certes, ce n'est pas Heat mais on sent une inspiration assez nette à cet égard.
Si l'histoire tient ma foi tout-à-fait debout, elle titube sensiblement dans la psychologie de ses personnages trop exagérée, trop forcée et le scénario qui aligne poursuites et bastons sans crier gare est du même acabit : on se sent un peu trop souvent dans une stathamerie ou autre production Luc Besson, ce qui n'est pas un compliment, non, non...
Pour autant, on ne s'ennuie jamais là-dedans et nos vieux donnent le meilleur d'eux-mêmes, Liam et Ed en premier : leur expérience crève l'écran. On passerait même l'éponge sur le caractère outrancier du film si sa réalisation était au moins à la hauteur, ce qu'elle n'est pas avec son montage cut et zoomé, rendant l'action confuse et désordonnée.
Il reste un film pas désagréable avec quelques moments touchants mais globalement dépassé par son ambition : la rédemption du truand est en effet un sujet difficile et délicat qui ne souffre pas la médiocrité... Trop emporté, Night Run n'a pas acquis la sagesse nécessaire.
Run All Night manages to live it with Liam Neeson being in a role for the movie, but can't save the movie from being a blowout that just can't work at all.
Liam would have conquered the screen, if the editing would have hold a frame for a while.
Run All Night
And we meet again. The writer Brad Ingelsby fascinates me. His writing procedure, his character and the way they travel in his plot tracks is equally intriguing. They take detours, they take uncalled stops, they bump into randomness and they also ask us to stop this everlasting train. And I know I usually give credit, at first. to the director who in this case is Jaume Collet-Serra. I just wanted to swoon over Brad's filmography and how it has caught my eye over the years. Not that I have anything new to add to those already said and observed things. This project, the stereotypical action thriller and it is extremely typical in its genre, has something else that I'd loved and exhaled over. It is its irrelevantly fast edited scenarios.
And not some physical action sequence but even a conversation is crisply edited out. No. Not crisply, but wrongly. Multiple times we can see the dialogues lapped over physical sequences to pace up the film in a briskly adventurous night. What it instead results into is a disappointing questionable set of scenarios that doesn't respect anything. Neither the action nor the characters nor the actors and what they are diving or dying or performing for is accounted into a disrespectful character.
Character, I say, for it repeatedly pops up on screen and also has his own arc in the sense that it gets less and less visible and annoying. Run All Night seems, is simply terribly edited. It cuts to another frame within a blink or like a blink. It feels unintentional, wrong and doesn't quite add up. There is a disturbance between conversation. This violence is much louder than any other explosives and bangs. And on the other hand, the final act is incredibly slow and settling which in its own way makes up for that uncalled editing that jumps back and forth.
What can I say. This movie suffers from a complete lack of character development or background, poor scripting a honestly laughable direction, especially as far as the animated scene transitions are concerned. Liam Neeson plays what is essentially an even more two dimensional version of himself, with no noticeably great acting performances from elsewhere. long story short, this film really shouldn't have made the box office, and it makes me sad that so many far superior others could have taken its place if it wasn't for its starring actor. No, seriously, without Liam's name to this film I can practically guarantee it would have gotten nowhere.