Run All Night (2015)Movies

Blog Posts Movie Reviews Kidnapping Mr. Heineken“: This was mildly entertaining but you and I have seen this movie a zillion times: lazy people who don’t want to work for a living cook up a scheme to kidnap a rich dude for the ransom and get rich quick. Except that it never works. I learned this as a little kid when my parents took me to see “Benji” and the kidnappers didn’t get away with the money then. At least in that movie, we knew that Benji helped foil the bad guys. In this movie, they never really tell you much about how police nailed the real-life kidnappers who snatched Dutch beer magnate Alfred Heineken (Anthony Hopkins), other than a postscript that an anonymous tip was phoned in to police. Instead, this is more of an exercise in frustration–we...