MIdnight Run

            Robert Deniro (Analyze This) plays Jack Walsh, a street smart Ex-cop and bounty hunter who reclaims bail jumpers. He is down on his luck when he gets the biggest job he’s ever had, to reclaim Richard ‘the Duke’ Maraduke, an accountant who embezzled 15 million dollars from the Mob, gave it away to charity and then got arrested, and jumped bail. A white collar criminal, should be a midnight run (Bounty terminology for an easy score).

            Through a series of events, the two are on about 7 or  different forms of transportation and it takes a whole lot of scheming for Jack to get around the Mobsters and the Feds. He also takes time to reunite with his estranged wife and daughter. He and Richard eventually bond on the trip and share some of their inner person.

            The charisma and chemistry between Jack and Richard is hard to believe, and doesn’t really sell well. Deniro is excellent, as always, but, he just doesn’t go the extra mile, and his attitude and character still seem inauthentic to the situation.

            The movie is a good laugh and has some fun ideas in it, but overall, I’d have to give this movie a 1, and say that there are far funnier buddy comedies, and some things that just didn’t work in this movie that work in other movies. The Mob Boss is played by Dennis Farina (Get Shorty) and he really sells it, I mean, he’s the best performance in the flick.