Director Martin Brest, of Going in Style and Beverly Hills Cop fame, was in charge of Midnight Run. Robert De Niro stars as Jack Walsh, a hard-bitten bounty hunter offered $100,000 to bring in embezzler Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin). Handcuffed to the wimpy Mardukas, Walsh assumes that the extradition trip from New York to Los Angeles will be an uneventful one. But the prisoner hasn't told Walsh the whole story: the embezzler owes $15 million to a mobster (Dennis Farina), and he's been
targeted for assassination. It's a toss-up as to what is the most entertaining aspect of Midnight Run: the slam-bang action and chase sequences or the verbal byplay between DeNiro and Grodin. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
De Niro e Grodin, com seus estilos radicalmente diferentes de interpretação, funcionam surpreendentemente bem juntos, elevando a história formulaica e transformando-a em algo interessante e divertido.
You've seen it lots of times, but it's the sort of thing that works entirely based on the level of the couple doing the bonding. In this case, De Niro and Grodin make it work.
This typical 80s buddy comedy may feel dated 23 years later but is still a lot of fun, mostly thanks to the great chemistry between grumpy DeNiro and whiny Grodin. The cast includes a lot more great names than that and everyone obviously had fun shooting this. While starting out slowly, soon there is plenty of action,
humor and a pretty exciting finale. Of course it's not that hard to predict that the two protagonists will start to like each other, but the way there is fun to witness, especially the setbacks when they are still trying to doublecross each other. They just don't make movies like that anymore.
The chemistry between Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin is comedic gold. Not only is this a hilarious and fun action comedy, but has incredibly likeable characters and never loses your attention.
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