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Run All Night Movie Review

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Although opening with Jimmy Conlon (Liam Neeson) lying flat on the grass calmly, Run All Night is packed with frustratingly adventurous thrill garnished with the spice of drama and crisis.

After playing retired CIA agent in the taken trilogy, Liam Neeson for a change is a Washed up Hitman this time. But still doing the same thing; fighting for his kid, this time it’s his son.

The drama comes in when the battle starts between the two fathers; Jimmy himself and Shawn Maguire (Ed Harris) who’s Jimmy’s boss and (only left alive) mate. The others have either died or are locked up. Shawn’s son screws up a drug deal and shoots the dealers in front of their limo driver who happens to be Mike, Jimmy’s son!!! “BANG”

Desperately being followed by Danny, Maguire’s regrettable son a brash, drug-using punk who now just wants to kill Mike because he saw him kill the dealer, when Dany reaches Jimmy’s home, Jimmy is there to kill him.

Father-son disappointments flow in both directions. Neeson’s boy Mike, has sworn off his alcoholic, mobbed-up father, and kept his family from ever meeting him and Maguire’s son is a drug loving angry young man.

Now it’s up to Jimmy to put in a last ditch effort to save his son’s life and survive the all night chase from the person whom he has worked all his life for. The messed up father-son relationship brightens a bit when Jimmy ably jacks a car with just a shoe lace.

The all night chase gets much frustrating when an elite shooter comes into play to get the father and the son, you just want to jump into the save our aged hero and his ‘righteous’ son. Although the NY building chase looks common but it just gets to you so much that you feel like screaming your lungs out and tell them to run.

It’s interesting to see the relationship of Jimmy and Shaun that even when they are ready to pull the triggers of their guns to each other, they are just talking to each other and Shaun takes his last breaths in Jimmy’s arms!

Though our sacrificial elder hero meets the dark, the end is satisfying.

Rating: 8/10

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