Run All Night (2015)
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.
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It’s a tense meet-up between Neeson and Harris that reminds you just a bit of that exchange between Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in “Heat.”
This movie may not pack the genuine emotional punch of Michael Mann's "Heat" or James Mangold's "Cop Land" -- or, for that matter, any of the countless Westerns that inspired it -- but "Run All Night" is a mostly satisfying action-drama from director Jaume Collet-Serra, who made Neeson's "Non-Stop" such a guilty pleasure.
It’s not quite like De Niro and Pacino squaring off over a diner table in Michael Mann’s Heat (1995), but the scene where Jimmy and Shawn sit across from each other in a respectable restaurant, with the former requesting that his son be spared and the latter assuring him that he won’t, has a frisson that emboldens even the most routine of action-movie moments.
This is a fine return to form for director Collet-Serra, who’s back to making the kind of out-there action-thrillers he became known for with Liam Neeson vehicles like Unknown, Run All Night and the similarly air travel themed Non-Stop.
Collet-Serra has proven he can do this kind of no-nonsense action before in several of the better Liam Neeson films (“Run All Night,” “The Commuter”) and the thoroughly enjoyable “The Shallows.”
Jungle Cruise, Disney’s latest foray into turning a theme park feature into a hopeful blockbuster, is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, best known for action flicks starring Liam Neeson (Run All Night, The Commuter).
It's not easy to cobble together a cohesive action film out of a 7-minute Disneyland attraction, but director Jaume Collet-Serra ("Run All Night," "The Shallo is up to the task.
Jungle Cruise ’s director, Jaume Collet-Serra, has a good reputation among fans of B-action movies; he directed the Blake Lively shark thriller The Shallows and the Liam Neeson programmers Unknown , Run All Night , Non-Stop , and The Commuter.
He's made three Liam Neeson thrillers ( Non-Stop , Run All Night , & The Commuter ).
Collet-Serra, who first proved his chops with the nutso cult horror film Orphan, keeps things hopping, utilizing some nifty Google Earth transitions between scenes and steadily hurtling his protagonists into a succession of ever-more-enclosed spaces, with results that generally reduce the surroundings to matchsticks.
Director Jaume Collet-Serra, who hoodwinked the audience big time with the fantastic bad-seed thriller Orphan and has since gotten into the Liam Neeson business (Non-Stop, Unknown), makes good use of real New York locations that contribute to the film’s gritty, no-nonsense feel, even though he plays fast and loose with geography (in one scene, Neeson crosses 42nd Street and Broadway to enter Madison Square Garden).
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra ("Non-Stop," the gonzo "Orphan") from an original script by Brad Ingelsby, "Run All Night" ranks below "Taken," "The Grey" and "A Walk Among the Tombstones" in the Neeson filmography, but it's well above most of the star's other recent vehicles.
Director Jaume Collet-Serra ("Orphan," "Non-Stop") gets fine work in his handful of scenes featuring Neeson and Harris and as the worn down police detective who's been on Jimmy's trail for over a decade, Vincent D’Onofrio ("The Judge") exudes good old-fashioned rumpled New Yawk tenacity.