Rent Cohen and Tate (1988)

Long Night’s Journey - Cohen and Tate review by griggs

Two hitmen, one abducted kid, one long night’s drive to Houston. The premise practically writes itself — which is unfortunate, because Cohen and Tate often feels like nobody else bothered.

Roy Scheider brings some grit, Adam Baldwin brings the bulk, and the kid does a lot of screaming, which feels fair enough under the circumstances. There’s a nasty little thriller buried in here somewhere, but the film never quite digs it out.

Instead, it keeps circling the same arguments, threats and power shifts until you feel trapped in the back seat with three people you’d happily leave at a service station.

Mean, thin, and not nearly as clever as it thinks it is. A long night, in every sense.