Film Review – All Nighter

It’s strange that “All Nighter” has very limited interest in becoming a farce when it has all the ingredients to do so. Director Gavin Wiesen plays the feature carefully, almost fearful of allowing it to snowball into a series of crazy encounters in different locations, instead trying to find the truth in scenes that demand insanity. It’s not an especially effective movie, with “All Nighter” rarely making time to form its own personality as it plays up Long Night formula. Wiesen and screenwriter Seth W. Owen have the concept of clue gathering and charged interactions for their askew detective tale, but the picture desires to be funny, and it’s never that. It’s flat work crying out for more inventive leadership. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com