Run All Night 2015 by AverageMansReviews

Run All Night 2015 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/drugs/racism/shooting/stabbing/strangling/burning/medical

16 hours earlier: basically; Jimmy "The Gravedigger" Conlon/Father Christmas [Liam Neeson:] an old veteran hitman which is a bit of a drunk kills the son Danny Maguire [Boyd Holbrook:] which is a loose cannon and gets himself into some trouble. But his father Shawn Maguire [Ed Harris:] is a ex-criminal that still has links to their world but nowadays is a clean businessman and best friends with Jimmy, until this situation. But Jimmy had no choice it will either Danny or his estranged son Mike Conlon [Joel Kinnaman:] which he hasn't done anything wrong, he was just doing his job as a limousine driver and if he had his choice he would very much like to stay away from his father and/or the criminal lifestyle he is in or generally speaking just to stay away anyway as he is a good person with a family.

The framework and pacing for this 114 minutes film is generally speaking something straightforward, but having said that now and again there are these quick moving effects, this is so amateurish and lazy, because I can see what they are trying to do here and that is give the illusion of speed and fluency. But consequently as I have already loaded to it just comes off as amateurish and lazy; lazy because this is my opinion and yes speculation of; maybe if we do it this way our audience won't notice it is a cheap and tacky way to create this illusion, which if you haven't guessed has failed.

Action: they are either from bang, bang you're dead or/and the realm of chaotic action when this film gets going.

Character developments and performances: once again generally speaking they are all pretty much safe and reliable versions of their character types and likewise their performances reflect that. But however there is one character flaw which really annoyed me and it is with Shawn at no point does he make reference to Jimmy that he knows his son Danny is more often than not finding himself in mess which he has to clear up [as he makes reference to this to his son roughly around the beginning section of this film,] but it is on principle he has to kill James and his son Mike, as in my son was too big for his boots but he was my son and his mother and my wife is finding this all very hard so I have to bring her and myself peace. You see this very small, yet very crucial character development makes Shawn look and sound like a well rounded three dimensional character. But without this it makes this character look and sound incredibly weak, because he is only out for revenge without talking about this massive elephant in the room that basically his son began this sequence of events, which I think Jimmy makes reference to the fact roughly Danny being in something deep and I can't remember Shawn replied, but I remember it not really giving Shawn any of this three-dimensional character developments.

Art: in the first section of the ending credits we have this colourful bits and pieces of the film we have just seen; this is engaging and all good.

This film receives: 4/10, this film is mixed: well to be more precise it has comfortably enough to be given this mark, I mean don't get me wrong if you are a fan of either or together of Liam Neeson, Ed Harris and Vincent D'Onofrio as Detective John Harding: a NYPD veteran detective which has been after James for years, I should very quickly point out he has a small role like now and again in this film, but you may just want to keep your expectations in check.