1988 · action · comedy · crime
Midnight Run
Directed by Martin Brest2h 6m1988
A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.
Our read: Midnight Run (1988) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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