This is a seriously underrated and under appreciated film. It is immersed in a love of cinema. Jesse V. Johnson is the king of the mow budget action film and his scripts are bright and fun. His understanding of action, violence, and gun play are high level. His balance of masculine energy and romance are terrific. This is actually the turning point of Johnson from a smaller film maker to a more high profile one. This one is the story of a mob enforcer obsessed with Steve McQueen that falls in love with the waring mob family's daughter- a modern Romeo and Juliet. This is also a tribute to Western films, seemingly a passion of Johnson. This one is not perfect but the total is greater than the sum of its parts. I love the characters. I love thew music and the look. This one gets better over time and in a 2nd and 3rd viewing.

The reason I watched this movie was for Jason Mayhem Miller and he didn't disappoint. The other actors are ok; I never heard of most of them.

I would highly recommend this movie for families and hard core fans of mafioso movies, like Goodfellas.

This movie gives me painful memories of the plethora of "beatnick" movies made in the '60s, which had absolutely nothing to do with reality and everything to do with Hollywood's misperception of what society was like.

The screenplay seems like it was hastily scribbled onto the back of a napkin during a lunch break. The directing makes the actors look like fourteen-year-olds trying to act "tough." To paraphrase an old fiction warning, "any similarity between this movie and reality is entirely coincidental and unintentional."

Eric Roberts provides the only performance worth noting in this poor excuse for entertainment, but if you look closely into his eyes, you'll notice that he seems to be thinking to himself "WTF am I doing in this steaming pile?"

I give it three stars because it'd look OK playing in the background on a bunch of TVs in a retail showroom, but definitely not worth viewing.