So, Run All Night or A Walk Among the Tombstones. Both stories have the main character as a "retired" cop/mobster hitman, there is a black youngster featured in the both movies, and some sort of east European gang involved. I enjoyed both.
I liked AWAT more because it had a dark side to it. Jonas jumping of the building scene.
I like both but prefer RAN. I read the book to AWAT and so much is missed although liam is superb in respect of the lead the film coul have been much better
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A Walk Among the Tombstones. It knew its place. Run All Night takes itself way too serious, and is far more predictable.
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Why do people always feel the need to compare one movie to another?
shareIt is a silly question due to the number of DIFFERENT people who like DIFFERENT things at DIFFERENT times.
Some people like curry, some people hate it. Some people prefer quieter more involved films, so people prefer guns, explosions & death.
You can never please all the people all the time, so comparing 2 films that have the common denominator of the same actor isn't really valid.
Because things in itself do not hold value unless compared to something else. Gold in itself is nothing unless we compare it to steel and then we can say its advantages and disadvantages.
Same with movies, what makes The Godfather the best movie ever or something, is that no other movies can come close to the level of craftsmanship and writing that the TG had.
Same with trying to compare RAN and AWAT.
RAN was a good, no-brainer action movie. AWATT was a good, moody film noir. Like most modern movies, however, I pretty much forgot all about them as soon as I left the theater.
shareRun All Night had a way bigger budget (around double that of AWAT), and it shows through, not just in the quirky birds-eye-view location pans and the more established actors, but in the overall feel of the film (whether it's because of the editing, color grading, set designs/costume, etc.).
I wanted to like AWAT, and there are many aspects of Neeson's character and the plot in that film that are much more interesting than RAN (AWAT is a mystery film, after all, whereas RAN is an action film). But I couldn't help but feel the film lacked a certain polish that one expects from a Liam Neeson flick. In some areas it felt like a straight-to-video movie, and I wasn't as sold on the chemistry between Neeson's character and TJ. In RAN, the relationship between Michael and Legs, between Jimmy and Michael, between Michael and his family, between Shawn and Jimmy and even to an extent between Jimmy and Det. Harding are very effectively and convincingly portrayed between the action sequences.
And, even though Neeson's PI character in AWAT is portrayed as a more realistically styled gun-slinging hero, he comes off much more as a caricature in that film than in RAN.
RAN is a pretty good crime/action/drama film. Whereas, because of its numerous tiny flaws, I'd rate AWAT as a mediocre crime/mystery film.
Really, my only complaint against RAN is Common's character. He's gotten pretty good at playing hitmen/cold-blooded killers (e.g. in Smokin' Aces, Street Kings and Wanted), and I understand they're trying to portray him as a more new-school and technical/cold-blooded hitman as a foil to Jimmy. But the stupid night vision eye piece on top of the laser sighted handgun was a bit much. He looked completely ridiculous in the apartment building evacuation scenes.
Like the way the film uses aerial views to switch locations early on in the film, it felt out of place for this particular movie. It seems more like the type of cheesy gadgetry you'd expect to see in a Mission Impossible movie.
RAN
shareDefinitely AWAtT, at least for me. RAN was so generic, so cliché, so bland and boring, I couldn't finish the same day. AWAtT not only is beatifully photographed on many scenes, but the dark atmosphere actually created palpable tension, while actually delivering decent performances and restrained and realistic action. The pace is smoother which allowed the audience to slip into the story, think it through, though the sidekick was kind of unecessary and annoying. RAN is just a regular, run-of-the-mill, disposable, modern action film, that completely pales in comparison, even though were talking about very different films here, one with stronger dramatic narrative and the other with a clear tendency for show-off fireworks.
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