That was an excellent one.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Callum Crane is in line for appointment to the federal bench during the same week he forces himself, while drunk, on a new secretary at his office who has firmly said no to him. It's also the same week Nathan Corrigan (a young, callow ex-con) goes to the city to meet his biological father, the same Callum Crane. They meet and before Nathan can tell Crane who he is, Crane offers him money to kill the secretary, who has threatened to go to the police.Nathan takes an envelop of cash and the woman's photo, tells friends about it, and throws away the envelop. One of the friends, who needs money, retrieves the envelop and sets out to kill the woman. Can Nathan stop the crime? Firstly, Bill Pullman is not a good rapist and the scene is directed like a romance. And why does he always look like he's gonna cry? The movie is very slow, and the giant chink in the armor? The plot is absurdly unbelievable. Why doesn't the girl just go to the cops? Why doesn't the friend just take the envelope with the money and run for the hills? It's a film that makes no sense.

Yes, it was a little bit unbelievable that the Judge's son would be the one he hired to kill the person he raped so that she won't blackmail him.It was awesome though and kept me interested the entire movie.It's a little gem - not a diamond by any means, but a gem - something like a copycat diamond. With enough sparkle to amuse and delight and please, but not something that is treasured for years to come.I enjoyed the story, the performances and the fact that my home was once again used in the film.I must have lived in the most awesome places on Earth, because they keep being used in movies.Anyways, it's a cool little crafty number that delighted me.

Bill Pullman is a good actor, and most of the other actors in the film did well, too. But it was to unbelievable, too full of coincidences, too full of unimaginative dialog ("Do you always attack people in garages" when Bill's life had probably just been saved by the guy). And Leo was not believable, nor were the three guys who killed Leo, they were just the dumbest sort of stereotypes. Even a basic anchor of the plot, the Bill would kill to be a judge and give up a million dollars a year for a couple hundred thousand, wasn't believable. I never suspended my disbelief and that's the problem with this film. Okay, one more line: the blonde roommate was just too stupid for words, and the way they both flirted with Bill's son was too cute for words.

This was a sleeper, a no-name movie that might have gone straight-to-video and was pretty good. It's one of these crime movies that doesn't have a lot of action yet keeps your interest all the way through.Like a true film noir, none of the characters nor their morality in this are really good but what WAS good was a few things at the end of this story you rarely see in a Hollywood film.Bill Pullman, Devon Sawa, Gabrielle Anwar, Angela Featherstone and Joanne Whalley (Kilmer) make for a diverse cast of actors. This is worth a look if you can find it anywhere but not that good to go searching for it.