Midnight Run (1988)

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

This movie has action and laughter. The occupation of Jack, a bounty hunter, isn't familiar with Japanese so I was very interested in his job. His duty is that he brings Madukas, who is important accountant of mafia, back to Los Angles. He tries to bring Madukas back to Los Angles but during the way back there, he gets into some trouble. There are a lot of characters in this move. So I was confused by the story a little but the development of the story is very exciting. Also, my favorite scene is the last scene. At the start of the movie, Jack and Madukas are like cat and dog. I laughed at his relations. However, as the story goes on, they get along well. Finally I was touched by friendship born between them. I fixed my eyes on development of this movie the whole time. This movie made me happy.

This is the most exciting movie I have ever seen. Especially, the last scene is extremely touching. Until halfway, there are a feeling that they are hostile to each other, because Duke wants to run away from jack, but he doesn't do so for him. However, as the story goes, they build a good relationship. At the last scene, Duke hands the escape funds to Jack, and Jake hands an important hand watch to Duke. For Jack, letting go of his hand watch has a big meaning of breaking the relationship with his wife. I can understand that by this last scene, a strong bond was born between Duke and Jake. As other moving scene, there is a scene which Jack's daughter tries to hand money to Jake. When Jack visited his wife's house, he meet his daughter again and his daughter know the situation what is happening for him. And then, she is going to give her own money to him. If I were Jack, I would have cried a lot with excitement. Anyway, this movie is the most exciting one I have ever seen.

This story is quiet difficult to understand for me. There are too many core characters, so I took time to recognize each one. Although the beginning of the movie is complicated that the more you watch it, the more you will be touched.The scene that Jack asks his ex wife for help and his daughter gave Jack her pocket money is really touching. Also, what is impressed me is the last scene. Who can imagine that Jack releases Duke? I guess through running away from FBI and trying to overcome some problems they get along with together and trust each one. The scene David gave Jack money and Jack gave Duke his watch that was given from his ex wife is proof of my opinion.

A truly great action/adventure comedy from the Director of BEVERLY HILLS COP. Full of surprises, namely:1). Robert DeNiro doing comedy for the first time and it's a smart one (as opposed to the slumdog comedies like DIRTY GRANDPA he is doing these days).2). Dennis Farina as foul-mouthed mob boss, Jimmy Serrano3). Yaphet Kotto as FBI Agent Mosely4). The always slimy Joe Pantoliano as Bails Bondsman Eddie Moscone5). Beverly Hill's Cop John Ashton as opposing bounty hunter Marvin Dorfler6). And...most importantly...Charles Grodin at his absolute dry wit best as Mob accountant Jonathan MardukasWell worth checking out - put it on a doublebill with BEVERLY HILLS cop and you've got a GREAT doublefeature.7 (out of 10) stars and you can take that to the Bank (of Marquis)