Movie Info

This John Irvin film is a small, hard-edged little gem, full of crisp action and tough-minded codes of honor. Harvey Keitel stars as a retired profess...(read more...) ional criminal whose younger brother (Timothy Hutton) lures him to Los Angeles for a can't-miss heist in Palm Springs. But Hutton hasn't picked his other partners very well, particularly wheelman Stephen Dorff: when it's time to divvy up the spoils, Dorff kills Hutton and a fourth partner and tries to rub out Keitel. Keitel escapes, however, and trails Dorff back to L.A., where he also figures out which Chinese mob he's tied in with. It's strictly revenge time from there on out, with Keitel as the one-man wrecking crew cutting a bloody swath through the L.A. underworld. Keitel is grittily good, a man of few words and many bullets, while Dorff is an enjoyably sleazy psychopath. A violently propulsive little noir. --Marshall Fine

Director: John Irvin

MPAA: R

Running Time: 97 min.

Release Date: Mar 14, 1997

Cast: Brian Brophy, Dana Barron, Famke Janssen, François Chau, Harvey Keitel, Lucy Liu, Michael Jai White, Reno Wilson, Stephen Dorff, Tamara Clatterbuck, Timothy Hutton, Wade Dominguez