script and story pretty terrible. like a television series brought to the movies. excellent cast,including better than average performances from ray liotta, and robert denero..excellent performance from harvey keital as the police officer ray. story ill conceived and ending unbelievably stupid. The basic concept of the story is very good, but it drags on into pure stupidity. Denero looks like he did it for the paycheck like backdraft.But keitel and liotta, shine. try to make it work, but it cant be done. should be called crapland..