This High-Energy Action Comedy With 100% on Rotten Tomatoes Takes Two Cops on One Wild Night
Midnight Runners, which stars Park Seo-joon and Kang Ha-neul, updates the usual buddy cop formula as two rookie cops pursue justice.
Most action-comedies pick a lane, they’re either big and over-the-top action or full of laugh-out-loud absurdity. However, Midnight Runners doesn’t choose. Instead, it combines both, and while it’s at it, Midnight Runners throws in as many bone-crunching fight sequences as it does comedic mishaps. In a nutshell, it’s a buddy-cop movie where the “cops” are still rookies, and the “buddy” dynamic is borderline chaotic. Here, Park Seo-joon and Kang Ha-neul star as Ki-joon and Hee-yeol, two police academy cadets whose night off-duty quickly spirals into something they never saw coming. The pair witnesses a kidnapping and reports it to the right authorities. But when the system seems to be moving at snail speed, they make the grave mistake of thinking they can do it on their own. Seeing as they’re still pretty green, their idea of “training” is more theoretical than practical, and their crime-fighting skills are fueled by sheer determination — and occasional dumb luck.
