Abel Ferrera (Ms. 45, China Girl) is a free-swinging, heavy-fisted pictorialist till he gets tied up in dialogues, where he can't (or won't even try) to maneuver. This -- the tying-up -- doesn't happen often, but because the movie is so overloaded toward violent action, the irony of the gangster-slash-philanthropist is drowned out in thunder. The casting of the fine-boned, papery-skinned Christopher Walken doesn't help to bring the concept into focus: a man of many faces, or anyway two faces, but widely separated and highly incongruous ones (haunted wraith, dimpled fun-lover). Larry Fishburne, in contrast, makes a strong impression as an itchy trigger-man who moves like an upright snake; as does David Caruso as a bellicose cop. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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