Review: 'Run All Night' Has Enough Gas in the Tank

There are, if not 50, at least a dozen shades of world-weary masculinity in the Liam Neeson thriller "Run All Night." There's Neeson as Jimmy Conlon, a washed-up Brooklyn hit-man; his mob boss and pal Shawn Maguire, who is played by Ed Harris. Joel Kinnaman as Jimmy's straight-arrow, limo-driving son Mike; and Vincent D'Onofrio's veteran police detective. By the time Nick Nolte turns up, presumably contractually obligated to appear anywhere father-son issues are bandied and characters are gravely musing about "the things I've seen," ''Run All Night" can slam its cards down: a full house. "Run All Night" is the latest in that curious cinematic cottage industry: Old-man Neeson Revenge Flicks. It's a niche of thriller often more fun in theory than in practice, but on the whole, it's hard not to root for keeping alive the pleasures of solid genre exercises.