Midnight Run Review
A delightful fusion of a 1980s buddy picture and a wacky Odd_Couple-style comedy, Midnight Run's mixture of action and comedy probably most resembles Arthur_Hiller's 1979 road comedy The In-Laws. The success of both films depends on the interplay and chemistry between the two bickering leads, in this instance, Robert_De_Niro and Charles_Grodin. Grodin had long been a comic actor of some acclaim (Heaven_Can_Wait), but this was De_Niro's first mainstream comedy, and he acquitted himself admirably as the irascible bounty hunter sent to pick up Grodin's white-collar embezzler. Working from a clever script by George_Gallo, director Martin_Brest captures the precise levels of comedy and action that made his prior film, Beverly_Hills_Cop, such a hit. In Midnight Run, however, Brest allows complex characters to emerge from the set-up, and the film is all the better for the results. De_Niro would continue to explore his comic side, to generally positive results, in films such as We're_No_Angels, Mad Dog and Glory, Wag the Dog, and Analyze_This. Brendon Hanley, Rovi
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