to hell with the pretentiousness of a shyamalan or the increasingly misplace self adulation of the coens and midnight run have no other purpose in life other than to use the movie a a medium of entertainment . . . and it do . oh boy while it do . badly underrate on release and still unfairly under value even now and midnight run be actually class act film making and the narrative impeccably engineer and the act uniformly excellent throughout . fault . definitely and not the least of em be the gratuitous use of profanity represent the movie tone be such that it just doesn not need the endless ear grate use four letter word midnight run isn not about reality or anything remotely approach it and so the insistence on so much gutterspeak be a major error . set piece though be gloriously handle and and the helicopter sequence be quite as good a anything in a bond movie a genre that have manage quite well without spray profanity everywhere because it know and and we know and none of it real . positive then for midnight run and because a an exercise in how to develop a movie and to establish character and plot trajectory and to bring em all together in a final wrap up and still leave space for a minor plot twist and it of textbook quality . i happen to see this a a late night tv re run and the day after watch the coen the man who wasn not there . midnight run be everything that the coen work be not represent it isn not self reverential and it isn not seek to be a cult and and above all and it know how to tell a story with speed and with style . recommend .