Review of Midnight Run (1988) by Dale G — 30 Apr 2010

This Film came out two months before I was born and after reading about it in a Robert De Niro biography, I saw it for the first time when I was fifteen years old and it became one of my favorite movies.

In MIDNIGHT RUN, De Niro plays Jack Walsh, a tough ex-Chicago Cop turned Los Angeles Bounty Hunter who tracks down Jonathan â??The Dukeâ?? Mardukas (Charles Grodin), a sensitive accountant who embezzled a Las Vegas mobster name Jimmy Serrano (Dennis Farina) $15 Million Dollars and gave it to charity.

Walsh finds The Duke in New York City and transports him back to L.A. to get a $100,000, but it doesn't go so well when FBI Agent Alonzo Mosley (Yaphet Kotto) are after them, Serrano wants them dead, and a resourceful fellow rival bounty hunter name Marvin Dorfler (John Ashton) wants his bounty for the money.

The performances of De Niro, Grodin, Kotto, Ashton, Farina, and Joe Pantoliano were brilliant in their roles. There are some great action scenes and both some hilarious and dramatic moments, from shoot-outs to chases, in this classic late 80's action-adventure comedy from Martin Brest, the director of Beverly Hills Cop and Scent of a Woman.

MIDNIGHT RUN is to me one of the greatest movies Iâ??ve ever seen and I highly recommend this movie to anybody that's a De Niro fan or Action movie fan.