The next movie to be reviewed will be "RunAllNight" movie. I will be listing some good and bad things about the movie while kind of giving it a summary of what happens. There is a lot of ****SPOILERS **** in this review so if you haven't seen the movie yet I wouldn't read this further until after watching it.
The movie starts off with Liam Neeson's character "Jimmy Conlon" in a bar thinking about what has happened to his life and why he keeps having nightmares about all those people he had assassinated on certain jobs. Much of the audience at this time won't know why the movie begins like this but by the end of the movie it wraps it up greatly so it will make sense later. Having said that we like the beginning setup of the movie. In addition Jimmy talks to a "Detective" played by Vincent Dinofrio who wants to arrest Jimmy with more proof about all those people he had assassinated a long time ago. The detective can be seen later throughout the movie a few times.
The movie then has "Shawn Maguire" played by Ed Harris chat with Jimmy Conlon about being his friend and protecting him till the end of time. Shawn Maguire has a son "Danny Maguire" who brings him a business consult with a major drug dealer. Shawn Maguire though isn't happy with this arrangement and tells his son to forget about the deal. The problem with this is that Danny has already received money from these drug dealers in exchange that he would be able to make a deal with his father. This initial setup in the movie was a good idea as it creates multiple conflict points between each character who is struggling with some type of problem.
Danny Maguire then decides to invite the drug dealers over to his place to pretend to give them their money back. The catch of this movie is that Jimmy Conlon has a son named "Mike Conlon" played by Joel Kinnaman who is a driver for various clients. In this instance he was driving these drug dealers to Danny Maguire's location. Mike has been doing a mentor program so he sees the kid he mentors come out onto the street and tries to convince him to go home. But the kid stays there with them and they both witness Danny Maguire killing the last drug dealer out on the street. This was a pretty good twist in the movie because the audience never saw this conflict occurring. Therefore the director did an excellent job of creating a suspenseful moment and keeping the audience interested.
Mike saw everything and quickly goes home to see if his daughters and wife "Gabrielle" played by Genesis Rodriguez are safe from harm from Danny. A surprise knock on the door comes out of nowhere and it is pretty spooky at first. Anyways while the audience believes it to be Danny coming right away to kill Mike it ends up being Mike's father Jimmy. They exchange a few words and then Jimmy leaves the house but decides to wait outside in case there is a problem of some sort. Danny finds the house and decides to go in to kill Mike and they struggle. But Jimmy who has been an assassin for the Maguire's for years has to end up killing Danny before he can shoot his son Mike. This was a good part of the movie because it sets up the synopsis for the rest of the movie.
For the rest of the movie Jimmy is forced to protect his son Mike from the police and from Shawn Maguire's henchman who are trying to kill them both for revenge over his son's death. There are a lot of car chases, gun sequences, and other cool action packed parts. We have to say that the movie did well with all the action sequences so if you are a full blown action fan you will definitely like this movie a lot it doesn't disappoint in that department. I like the different action aspects of the movie where there are multiple different locations that fighting takes place. At one point Shawn hires a hitman to chase after both Jimmy and Mike throughout the movie as well.
Towards the end of the movie Jimmy comes after Shawn Maquire and ends up chasing him down and killing him. But does so in a manner where he still respects him even as he is dying because they had been through so much together over the years. Jimmy goes to the cabin to meet his son Mike, Gabrielle, and two grandchildren. Jimmy says he wants to turn himself in and ends up meeting the rest of the family. As Jimmy waits in the cabin Mike, Gabrielle, and the kids go out by the lake area. The hired hitman goes after them and Jimmy is quick to help them out. As Mike is close to being killed by the hitman Jimmy is already wounded but gets one last good shot into the hitman. As Jimmy lays there dying he holds in his hand a note in which he wants to confess all the assassination he had done during his career. This comes back to where I mentioned about the lead detective wanting to find out the names of the people he had killed. That was a good move in the movie because it captures a sense that Jimmy all along was not a cold-blooded killer but wanted to clear his conscious.
Overall we liked the movie it created a good story line both at the beginning and at the end. It kept the audience engaged through car chasing, gun fights, and other thriller type action sequences. This was a well made movie and it seems that Liam Neeson just might be back in the game. The other movies Liam did like the "Taken" franchise were good too, just in our opinion not as good as "RunAllNight" was. What did you think of the movie? Do you think the directors did a good job of keeping the audience engaged? Were there any parts of the movie you would have changed to make it better?
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