RUN ALL NIGHT (Jaume Collet-Serra). Rating: NNN
Where to watch: iTunes
Barely two months after Taken 3, Liam Neeson is back in fighting form for Run All Night. Give the man credit he’s making the most of his second act.
In this one he plays Jimmy Conlon, an aging Brooklyn enforcer forced back into action when his adult son (Joel Kinnaman) gets mixed up in a double murder.
But it’s really about the pleasures of watching committed actors – not just Neeson and Kinnaman but Ed Harris, Vincent D’Onofrio, Common and Holt McCallany – elevate a generic cat-and-mouse picture into something a little more interesting.
Jaume Collet-Serra, who directed Neeson
in Unknown and Non-Stop, occasionally struggles to reconcile the themes of loyalty and regret with the requisite outsized action beats, but when he lets the material breathe, Run All Night nudges its characters into some worthwhile places.
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