Into the Night
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Movie Reviews of Into the Night
Movie Review: completely forgettable
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie plays like a longer and much more boring episode of "Moonlighting," only without the humor, and with less of the glamour. Jeff Golblum is an insomniac electrical engineer with a boring job. Michelle Pfeiffer plays a mistress/good time girl who has smuggled some precious stones into the country for a friend. She meets up with Goldblum at the airport, as some middle-eastern-looking thugs are trying to kill her, and they are chased around L.A., from the Marina, to Hollywood, to Beverly Hills, to Malibu, etc. by various thugs of unknown identity and motivation.
It isn't clear whether the filmmakers were trying to achieve comedy or suspense, but they achieved neither. The pacing is too slow. The plot grows more absurd and untenable with every passing minute. By the time you find out who is trying to kill them and why, you will have long since lost interest. I had started to fast forward.
For me, as an Angeleno, comparing the way the city looked 23 years ago, as opposed to now, was interesting, but not nearly interesting enough. The other highlight is some brief nudity from the luminously beautiful, young Michelle Pfeiffer. But these don't make up for what is simply a bad, forgettable movie.
Movie Review: 80's nostalgia but no value
Summary: 2 Stars
Goldblum & Pfeiffer were so young here. It's nice to see major names early in their career. Goldblum's character has insomnia which goes along with him sleeping through his performance. Funny moments weren't really funny. Why did this even try to be a comedy, drama, Moonlighting episode? Bowie is amazing as an actor but he really serves no purpose with his barely 8 minutes of screen time. The 80's soundtrack is cringe worthy. This movie has value for a Bowie fan & for some brief nudity of Pfeiffer.Movie Review: Into a Very Long, Boring Night
Summary: 2 Stars
This is one boring film, with a pseudo-fey style that think tries to fool its audience into thinking it's cool. I love Ffieffer and Goldbum in their past and future work but they seem to be sleepwalking through a script that has flat dialogue that has him asking her over and over again to just let him go home--as everyone, but David Bowie, should have done before this film wrapped up. The eighties were great and riveting and "Into the Night" is not indicative of any of that.