Run All Night 2015

Wesley Morris, Grantland: With all due respect for Harris's ability to overact even while underacting, and given the hour-plus of citywide demolition, the stakes for the action here are awfully low. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Neeson's whiskey-marinated Catholic anguish isn't exactly new, nor is Harris's rueful reflection on years flown. But if it's a film that sticks to the old songs, at least it plays the hits. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: Liam Neeson does his thing, and does it well, in this robustly satisfying Irish-American mob thriller. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: Even though he never gets a grip on the over-complicated plot, the director hasn't lost his knack for those elemental qualities that make a good action flick. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Neeson and Harris are good at this sort of thing. The outcome is never in doubt, but an amazing amount of firepower is employed to get there. Read more

Tom Russo, Boston Globe: The story loses its convincingly scaled sense of jeopardy in the late going, and it ultimately unravels. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Unfortunately, the convoluted backstory is the only thing that makes this worth seeing. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Directed, frantically, by Jaume Collet-Serra, written by Brad Ingelsby, "Run All Night" promises a sprint punctuated by a lot of gunfire, and bleeding, and bodies. Mission accomplished. Read more

Kyle Anderson, Entertainment Weekly: An admirable cat-and-mouse tale that puts forth a lot of cliches and executes them with B-movie intensity. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: The movie consists entirely of angry threats, pointed guns, hiding out from and eluding same and mad dashes down mean streets on foot and in vehicles. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: It's not only the strength of the acting that pulls us over bumps in the narrative, it's the crisp, streamlined direction of Spanish filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra, who also directed Neeson in the improbable "Non-Stop." Read more

Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly: There are more phones than female characters, who spend the movie comatose in hospital beds, fretting silently in the background or being hugged through a doorway Read more

Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News: We've been up and down this road before, and even though Kinnaman, Neeson and Harris make interesting passengers, the overused tires in "Run All Night" go bald. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: There are several times in the movie in which Neeson uses his wits instead of bullets to extricate himself from a difficult situation. In this kind of picture, that's called a plot twist. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: "Run All Night" is a mostly satisfying action-drama from director Jaume Collet-Serra, who made Neeson's "Non-Stop" such a guilty pleasure. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Mostly thanks to its stars, it is a perfectly acceptable, if unnecessary, addition to the angry middle-aged guy action-movie genre. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Liam Neeson warns us what we're in for from the first voiceover at the start of "Run All Night": "I've done terrible things in my life." Read more

Andy Webster, New York Times: Let's face facts: Mr. Neeson is the best actor the action genre has had in decades. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Run All Night isn't dull. The pace is breakneck, and necks get broken. But the violence is relentless, ugly, unredeemed by any real humanity. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Run All Night is a taut, edgy affair that features Neeson in peak action form and allows him to partially atone for the indignity of Taken 3. Read more

Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: Though Neeson, as usual, gives an effective performance, maybe it's time for him to lighten up and climb out of his rut. "Run All Night" feels like he's run into a career dead end. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The sheer perversity of Neeson's thrillers is a big part of their delight. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: If you're a fan of the "Taken" movies and tend to give action-hero Neeson the benefit of the doubt, our advice here is simple: Run away! Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Collet-Serra (Non-Stop and Unknown), lavishes the story with whooshing aerial cameras and shadowy rat-warren interiors. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Another month, another Liam Neeson action movie. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: There's not much new in this tale of grim men staring, and then shooting, each other down, but this cast and crew know how to spin this yarn with efficacy and economy. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: In the main, Jaume Collet-Serra is making a character-driven drama about betrayed honor, and the result is a film closer in spirit to the baggage-rich crime novels of Dennis Lehane than dumb multiplex fare. Read more

Jim Slotek, Toronto Sun: It's well-crafted creative wrapping over a lot of empty noise. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Under all his action-star antics, Liam Neeson is a good actor. So his insistence on repeatedly playing a variation of the same role is mystifying. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The movie is the cinematic equivalent of junk food. It satisfies the craving for the sensation of nihilism, without its substance. Read more