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."
