Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Movie Review: Run All Night

My daughter, granddaughter, and I went to the movies last night. We planned to see McFarland, which stars Kevin Costner as a California high school track coach. It's supposed to be heartwarming, and sounded like a pleasant movie experience.
But when I checked online for the showtime, I found the theater had dropped it. Run All Night didn't exactly look like our usual light entertainment, but its start time worked for us. 
This is one intense movie.  A manhunt with non-stop action. Lots of violence. The three of us spent the entire time in a state of unremitting tension. That doesn't sound pleasant at all, but the movie has some great things going for it, Liam Neeson for one. He manages to create a sympathetic and downright heroic hit man. Ed Harris also does a fine job. His presence reminded me of another dark movie I liked years ago: A History of Violence. But it is probably the complex relationship between Neeson's character and his son that had us saying at the end, "That was a really good movie."

10 comments:

Julia said...

It might be to intense for little old me. I haven't been to a movie since I took my granddaughter to see Monsters INC. lol...
Hugs,
JB

Susan said...

I can't tolerate scary suspense, so I wasn't sure how I'd do on this one. I figured if necessary, I can always close my eyes. But I didn't close my eyes even once. We cringed a lot though. :-)

Helen said...

I am a huge Liam Neeson fan (and was also a big fan of A History of Violence), so have added this to my list of movies to see.

Susan said...

I saw A History of Violence in the theater, and bought the DVD for my son when it came out. When he heard the title, he thought I was giving him a documentary about violence in the media. He was not thrilled. lol

crystal said...

Thanks - that sounds like something I'd like. I do like Liam Neeson too. I just recently rented a movie with him in it that was not bad - Non-Stop. I still haven't seen A History of Violence. Is Viggo the bad guy in that?

Susan said...

No, not a bad guy. But complex. ;-)

Mali said...

Another Liam Neeson fan here, so you might just have convinced me to go. Thanks.

Susan said...

You're welcome!

Do you all know about the Movie Review Query Engine (mrqe.com)? I consult it for all movies, old and new. As you can see, the moviegoers (top chart) really agree with me!

Eulalia Benejam Cobb said...

I like Liam too, but I've grown leery of violence, which these days tends to stay with me longer than it should.

Susan said...

I don't take violence in stride either, Lali (I did lots of twitching), but it wasn't what stayed with me, fortunately.