Into the Night (1985)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

In IMDB the rating I gave was 7 because it is a solid 6.5 on the fact that it was engaging. The actors were charming and surprisingly rich in depth despite the premise of a romcom-murder movie. It wasn't funny but had funny moments (John Landis had fun being a baddy in slapstick style). It wasn't gruesome like American Werewolf, but elements were quite disturbing. It wasn't really romantic but the Michelle and Jeff had a slow burner - very good to have that style as a basis of a relationship. All in all, as one reviewer rightly stated it is a great late night rental movie (and with terrible mid 80s music from B.B. King to boot). Great cameos from many diverse people - fun trying to guess all the directors who show up. And a good deal of twist and turns without being disruptive to the continuum of the story. PS - the fight scene between Bowie and Perkins must have an inside joke. Old rock versus new rock. One nearly dead... etc. Please give it a try.

Night, as we know, "is dark and full of horror", but night also allows you to escape from jailers, guarding your prison cell during daytime. Night - time of escapes, time of escapists. "Into the Night" - a movie for escapists. Who are very bad people, according to the unanimous opinion of jailers.If you suffer from insomnia at night and falling asleep in the office during the day on your important but hateful work, when colleagues don't understand you, when your wife is cheating you with some cock, innocently asking "how can I help, dear?" while throwing away your breakfast, maybe you should look up for yourself at night? Maybe there is a reason why you suffer from insomnia.And you make a night raid at the airport, hoping for... you don't know what for, in sleepless Las Vegas. You realize the folly of your action at parking and about to return to your usual prison cell, attempting to start the engine, when blonde beauty jumps into your car, chased by bearded types of Middle Eastern appearance with big guns. Your budget Toyota instantly start up and carries away you and your strange companion Into the Night.No matter how beautiful girl is, but you just don't want to get into any troubles in this strange and unknown world of the night, you want to go home - into your familiar and comfortable prison, to your treacherous wife and hated work. Maybe you'll be able to sleep? And yet, how can you refuse to give this girl a ride home? So, step by step, looking at the strange girl and her pictures at her home, you became more and more involved into the unusual world of night freedom in which future is uncertain and nobody knows what the next hour will bring.Perhaps someone will be confused by uncertainty of this film genre - it is not clear if you watch a domestic drama, a black comedy, a social satire, a thriller or a detective. Perhaps all these genres are represented in "Into the Night". There are numerous cameo of directors, including John Landis himself in the role of the hapless Iranian thug experiencing problems with opening doors. There is really a lot humour in this movie - from grotesque Charlie Chaplin-like slapstick (constant war of the Iranians with doors, Ed's misadventures with props on the set, limousine theft) and social satire ("it's all because of property"?), to the witty dialogues and black irony - everything is there, except the vulgar humour. Humour in the film is not misanthropic, cold and arrogant, like Cohens', on the contrary - the director lovingly refers to his characters. There is also a detective story and a thriller, and even gunfights - even though the main character (who does not want to be a hero) never pick up's any guns. But is genre purity so good? In which genre, for example, you live your life? Certainly it has elements of domestic drama and comedy, melodrama, and sometimes detective and thriller, if you, like the movie's protagonist, ready to run "into the night."Perhaps, "Into the Night" includes all what a real escapist appreciates: a cold-blooded hero who does not want to be a hero (always detached and ironic intellectual Jeff Goldblum fits as he was born for this role), but finally decided to exchange his comfortable prison of day to dangers of freedom of night; beautiful and strange girl (Michelle Pfeiffer is truly beautiful in the prime of her beauty) - witty beauty who is living an easy life and at last acknowledged the existence of something more valuable than money; escape from prison of everyday life and compromises with your conscience into freedom and suspense of the night; fighting with challenges of destiny and overcoming your fear; lack of misanthropy; subtle humour, sometimes, however, turned into slapstick of classic comedies of the 1920th; music of B.B. King; retribution for the crimes of those who committed them, and a happy ending for those who do right. However, I suspect that the jailers will not appreciate "Into the Night". But I give it 8 out of 10.

INTO THE NIGHT is a surprise disappointment, given John Landis' impressive '80s track record. It just sorta lumbers along from one scene to the next, even with shootouts and bloody corpses contained within. Landis hss a non-speaking role as one of the Iranian bad guys and he milks the role for a few laughs. The fun part is spotting the various director cameos (Don Siegel, Jonathan Demme, Lawrence Kasdan, hey there's Jim Henson on the phone!). But as soon as the shooting stops, we're sitting down with Goldblum and Pfeiffer for ice cream (although it's cool to see the long-gone Ship's coffee shop alive on screen). Goldblum is awesome and I do like the premise; but it's hard not to compare this to AFTER HOURS, which is a much better movie.5/10

This is a film about finding adventure in your life and taking a risk doing it. "Into the Night" unfolds into a string of events from a chance meeting of two people who compliment each other as companions, even if they have different personalities and come from completely different backgrounds.Ed Okin--a bored urbanite with a dead end job and nothing new going on with the day to day, apart from his cheating wife--goes out for a neighborly spin in his car in the middle of the night and finds trouble in all the right places with a blond named Diana on the run from crazy Iranians and other goons looking to get back precious jewels she has. A partnership is made with one, Goldbloom, looking for danger and the other, Pfeiffer, trying to run away from it. This is the type of story that goes with the flow, neither aiming towards a set-in-stone direction, which gives the viewing experience of seeing new complications, characters and locations a spontaneous and unpredictable feel.This is a fun adventure story with mystery, action and some laugh out loud gags. There's candid violence, brief nudity and car chases to get the pulse pumping. This has trendy '80s music, including wild guitar solos and popping bass rhythms that doesn't help the movie step outside of 1985. "Into the Night" is a basic big-budgeter that doesn't serve a major purpose except to maybe sell the audience a this-could-be-you-if-applied-yourself fantasy. It's an entertaining movie to spice up a bored evening and escape with, as anything more and you might be disappointed.