Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto

An ex-cop becomes a bounty hunter and tracks down an embezzler.

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R, 127 min.

Directed by: Martin Brest

Release Date: July 11, 1988

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DVD Release Date: June 24, 1998

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  • October 12, 2006
    DeNiro & Grodin have really great chemistry in this enjoyable action-comedy. It's superb, profane, & very funny.
  • September 25, 2009
    Cult comedy
  • September 22, 2008
    Midnight Run is a buddy/road picture that is reminiscent of the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby films of years gone by. Robert DeNiro makes is first comedic role as foul mouthed bounty hunter Jack Walsh, who is sent after a bail jumper played by Charles Grodin who has taken millions of ...( read more)dollars from a mobster (Dennis Farina) and given most of the film to charity. The chase is on as the mob, the FBI (led by Yaphet Kotto) and another bounty hunter (John Ashton) pursue the pair from New York City to Los Angeles.

    Midnight Run is a great action/comedy film. Let's call it what the Cannonball Run tried to be. DeNiro was still in his prime with this film and plays the crusty Jack Walsh with his usual precision (at least twenty years ago). It's the interaction between DeNiro and Grodin that steals the show. These two are the definition of oil and water and most of their conversations end up in hilarity because DeNiro just can't take it anymore. DeNiro and Grodin play off each other nicely.

    I was surprised by how well this film has aged, other than the fact that DeNiro's character smokes in airports, on buses, etc. Most of the films of this vintage tend to date themselves with obscure '80's references, such as Martin Brest's film prior to this one Beverly Hills Cop. Midnight Run is still as fresh as it was 20 years ago. A great picture that shows how versatile DeNiro could be.
  • August 5, 2008
    To hell with the pretentiousness of a Shyamalan or the increasingly misplaced self-adulation of the Coens, 'Midnight Run' has no other purpose in life other than to use the movie as a medium of entertainment. . . and it does. Oh boy; it does.

    Badly underrated on release and st...( read more)ill unfairly under valued even now, 'Midnight Run' is actually class-act film making, the narrative impeccably engineered and the acting uniformly excellent throughout.

    Faults? Definitely, not the least of 'em being the gratuitous use of profanity: the movie's tone is such that it just doesn't need the endless ear-grating use four letter words -- 'Midnight Run' isn't about reality or anything remotely approaching it, so the insistence on so much gutterspeak is a major error.

    Set pieces though are gloriously handled, and the helicopter sequence is quite as good as anything in a Bond movie -- a genre that has managed quite well without spraying profanities everywhere because it knows, and we know, none of it's real.

    9/10 then for 'Midnight Run', because as an exercise in how to develop a movie, to establish characters and plot trajectories, to bring 'em all together in a final wrap up and still leave space for a minor plot twist, it's of textbook quality.

    * I happened to see this as a late-night TV re-run, the day after watching the Coen's 'The Man Who Wasn't There'. 'Midnight Run' is everything that the Coen's work is not: it isn't self reverential, it isn't seeking to be a cult, and above all, it knows how to tell a story with speed and with style. RECOMMENDED.
  • March 2, 2008
    Almost 4 stars - I really enjoyed this movie - solid script and solid acting. Martin Brest has made bout what 5 films in the past 30 years?
  • November 5, 2009
    wow what a great fun comical thriller this is, this is different from another this kind of film out there, the core idea is not about the action, but this is more like a character and relationship study of the characters, the chemistry between deniro and grodin is superb, the end...( read more)ing is kinda lame but somehow very moving, one thing for sure, this film keep me smiling all the way through the whole movie.,
    and robert deniro once again showed us his versatility to strengthened his place as the best actor of all-time..
  • November 3, 2009
    Robert De Niro showed his multi-talent!!
  • September 30, 2009
    Cross-country comedy as bounty hunter DeNiro tries to get his bail jumper Grodin to Los Angeles by midnight Friday. Entertaining romp if you check your brain going in. (How on earth do you lose a whole fleet of police cars and an FBI chopper in the Arizona desert? Why, by hiding ...( read more)behind a bush).
  • September 5, 2009
    Robert DeNiro plays a bail bondsman who tries to bring in an escapee played by Charles Grodin. Very funny as he tries to get him across the US with the mob, FBI and other bounty hunters in pursuit.
  • August 27, 2009
    " I'LL TELL YOU WHAT..IF U DONT COOPERATE,YOU'R GONNA SUFFER FROM FISTAPHOIA " that was so damn funny
    this nice movie is about a bounty hunter Jack Walsh 'Robert De Niro' , who is sent after a criminal and he put him self through alot of troubles in the middle between the FBI a...( read more)nd a drug dealer .

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