Review of Midnight Run

'Midnight Run (1988)' is a rare example of an action-comedy that's both thrilling and funny. It's a broadly bombastic but equally investing and small-scale character study that's unpredictably interesting and genuinely affecting. It's the core relationship that keeps the piece together, two relatable men caught at the centre of a somewhat unrelatable situation, and the way in which they remain utterly true to their occasionally deceptive characters is uncommonly impressive, as is the fact that a simple tongue-in-cheek argument is just as entertaining as a helicopter crash - if not more. 7/10