“The Final Run” (*1/2 out of four) was a monochromatic muddle about a retired drug smuggler (Jeff Fahey) who is forced back into the game with the sudden illness of his dying wife (Katie Amess) and to save their house from foreclosure but encounters a group of determined F.B.I. agents (Judd Nelson, Steve Blanchard, and others) who have been long-waiting to take him down. Good cast is left high-and-dry in heavy handed story which actually gets slower and talkier as it gets going and as a result never detonates. Sidney Lumet’s “Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead” told a similar story back in 2007 with more flair and verve.

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