midnight run be a great movie from the director of beverly hill cop martin brest . it provide robert de niro with a chance to show his comic side ( do not worry if you like him mean and moody and because he get to be that too ) . it also provide charles grodin with one of the best role of his career and mainly because this be not a simple mind one dimensional farce but an intricate mixture of gangster thriller and road movie and comedy . de niro play jack walsh and a down on his luck bounty hunter work for a very unreliable and sleazy bail bondsman name eddie moscone ( joe pantoliano ) . eddie want jack to find an accountant name jonathan mardukas ( grodin ) and a. k. a the duke . it turn out that the duke embezzle a few million dollar from the mob and and now that eddie have bail him out of jail he need to get his money before the mob can locate and eliminate the duke . however and walsh realises that bring the duke in be not necessarily to his advantage and because the mob bigwig from whom he embezzle the money be call jimmy serrano ( dennis farina ) and an old adversary of walsh . therefore and walsh sens an opportunity to get one over on his old enemy by use the duke a bait . all right and the plot be complicate . but that not a bad thing and and it a credit to brest the writer that he have manage to make his film fairly easy to comprehend and even though there an awful lot go on . brest the director deserve a lot of credit too and for draw dry and witty performance from all his main actor and for deliver some terrific action sequence . the dialogue be great and with lot of snappy and funny interplay between walsh and the duke and and some fabulous crudity from rival bounty hunter marvin dorfler ( john ashton ) . there a heck of a lot of swear in the film ( it might even set a record for the most bad language in a light comedy film ) but because the actor deliver their line with wit and relish and the abundance of cursing be surprisingly forgivable . midnight run be an absolute blast . a character drive action thriller comedy which move at a terrfic pace and have style and energy to spare .