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| RUN ALL NIGHT THE MOVIE POSTER |
Three of the Friday Movie Mavens and The Travelling Toe "ran" to the closest multiplex to see Liam Neeson in "Run All Night" before it left the area. And at the end of the movie, we felt that we had run all night due to the continuous action taking place on screen.
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| Liam Neeson |
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| Ed Harris |
The story centers on a down on his luck hit man Jimmy Conlon (Liam Neeson) whose ghosts of past murder victims now haunt him. His friend and boss, Shawn Maguire (Ed Harris) has problems of his own controlling his son Danny (Boyd Holbrook) who wants to make drug deals with an Albanian mob boss. Jimmy's estranged son, Mike (Joel Kinnaman) gets involved in the action innocently as he is a limousine chauffeur and takes the thugs to Danny's house to seal the deal or get their money back. Danny and his friend decide to take all the money and the drugs and a gun fight commences. The 2 thugs are killed and then placed in Mike's limo to frame him for the murders. Danny comes looking for Mike and Jimmy kills Danny before he can shoot Mike. Jimmy pleads with Shawn to spear Mike's life and take his instead, but Shawn is unforgiving and unrelenting. Not only does Shawn use all his gang members to hunt for the 2 Conlon's but also, uses cops on his payroll and then he hires Mr. Price (Common) who is a paid assassin to take them both out - Mike first then Jimmy so he will see his son die.
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| Joel Kinnaman |
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| Boyd Holbrook |
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| Common |
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| Nick Nolte |
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| Bruce McGill |
So, needless to say there are a lot of car chases, car crashes, bullets fly by, foot pursuits, a little knife work and lots of hand to hand fighting.
There are several good supporting actors that round out the cast, Vincent D'Onofrio as a good cop trying to get Jimmy to admit to his crimes, Nick Nolte as Jimmy's brother (he was hard to recognize with the grey beard and long hair but his gravelly voice gave him away) and Bruce McGill as Shawn's #2.
Does Mike get out for under the murder wrap? Does Shawn get his revenge on Jimmy and Mike? Does Jimmy pay for his sins? The Travelling Toe will not tell as you will just have to see the movie for yourself to see how it all wraps up. Would suggest wait till it comes out on DVD at a cheap rate.
The Travelling gives this movie 2 pinkie toes up with blisters from running all night.
Disclaimer: The Travelling Toe is not a professional movie critic and any opinions expressed are for entertainment purposes only.
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