Midnight Run
- kinetic
Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
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The shape of Midnight Run
What watching it is actually like.
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