Jimmy had been a hit-man for ages and as-well has this string with a Mob boss, time is running out and Jimmy has got just one night to decide where his loyalties lies.
There are more phones than female characters, who spend the movie comatose in hospital beds, fretting silently in the background or being hugged through a doorway
The action is brutal and well executed, and tension is an end into itself in director Jaume Collet-Serra's hands. Run All Night stays true to its title. It's never short of breath but lacks breadth.
Rapper Common's appearance as the pic's bad hitman - again, the movie wants us to think there are hitmen who aren't so bad - is the film in a nutshell.
In the main, Jaume Collet-Serra is making a character-driven drama about betrayed honor, and the result is a film closer in spirit to the baggage-rich crime novels of Dennis Lehane than dumb multiplex fare.