Midnight Run vs Rush Hour

Midnight Run has the higher audience score (7.2/10 against 7.1/10 for Rush Hour). Rush Hour is the shorter watch at 1h 37m compared with 2h 6m. Midnight Run is the older of the two (1988 against 1998). Both are action, comedy, crime movies, so they suit a similar mood. Both feature Philip Baker Hall.

Midnight Run posterMidnight Run1988 VS Rush Hour posterRush Hour1998
Midnight RunRush Hour
Audience score★ 7.2/10★ 7.1/10
Year19881998
Length2h 6m1h 37m
GenresAction, Comedy, Crime, ThrillerAction, Comedy, Crime
Country––
DirectorMartin BrestBrett Ratner
Main castRobert De Niro, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano, Philip Baker Hall, John AshtonKen Leung, Philip Baker Hall, Tom Wilkinson, Jackie Chan, Michael Chow

Synopsis

Midnight Run

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.

Rush Hour

When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.

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