Midnight Run (1988)
10/10
One of the most underrated movies! So wonderful!
29 April 2020
I have watched this movie many many times, and it never bores me to watch it another time. The acting is wonderful; the dialogues are great, and the plot superb. The comic elements are very natural.

The most touching part was when Jack had to go to his ex to ask for some money. In the midst of their argument and the moment when Jack and the Duke, Jack's daughter Denise appeared. Her appearance and later giving her father Jack her babe sitting money of $180 were the one of the most heart breaking scenes ever in movie history (the other one that immediately came to mind is when soldiers watched airlines taking off with 101 airborne paratroopers at the end of the 1st episode of Band of Bothers - the scene with the music connoted a profound sense of solemnity and even loss/melancholy - everybody knows that it was the last day of life for a lot of these paratroopers and planes. The daughter-father bond, love, and sadness felt between them was absolutely moving. The music enhanced this so much also.
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