Run All Night - Yet Another Liam Neeson Action Flick!

Run All Night review

                                                   

This may look like your average Liam Neeson action movie, after the incredibly awful Taken 3, because of its revenge premise and usual action sequences, but make no mistake, as Run All Night delivers audiences a gritty crime ambience and substantial material to entertain.

As this is Jaume Collet-Serra's 3rd collab with Neeson after Unknown and Non-Stop, you should expect the usual elements in a movie such as those listed above, such as kidnappings, shootings, and brawling. In Run All Night, Neeson plays an aging hitman whose estranged son is being hunted down by his former boss after the death of his son, Danny. Neeson turns the tables and does everything in his power to protect his son from impending death.

The movie's story is simple, therefore it is good since it prevents it from being overcomplicated. It allows to expand the plot to make sure that this isn't just a random shooting spree, and unlike recent films such as 'The Equalizer' and 'John Wick' in which the main character is the central focus, Run All Night possesses more of family issues.

                                                       

Liam Neeson is not too old for this sh*t!

                                         
When it comes to the acting, Neeson, along with Kinnaman and Harris, put on solid performances throughout the film. It may seem that they are trying too hard, but at the end of the day it is mediocre.

Director Collet-Serra looks like a master of shoot' em up films as this one itself is full of gun action. This one is brutal in terms of the aspect mentioned above because rather than the 'clean' Taken kills where people die in a second, this film is where blood sprays out of people's necks when shot and die within 10 seconds. Quite violent, isn't it?

Also, rapper Common is featured in the movie as a hired assassin named Mr. Price. Now, his character made you want to venture into his backstory as there wasn't much screentime available for him. I also thought of him as the black Terminator (apologies to black people out there) because you can tell that he is a merciless person. He will kill anyone who gets in his path and he wasn't going to stop until the job is done.

Is this possibly the next Terminator?

                                                
To conclude this review, I will officially give Run All Night a reasonable rating of 6/10!

If you guys want more of this action-packed thriller, I will be providing you with a clip of one of the chase scenes in this movie!