John Dahl's neo-noir thriller, a combustible compound of honest unemployed ex-Marine, professional hit man, unfaithful wife, and vengeful husband (Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle, and J.T. Walsh, respectively), is as much farce as thriller, and an air of cinemaniac hipness will have to stand in for the deeper kind of knowingness of classical film noir. It took an odd route to American audiences: first HBO, then video stores, finally theaters. It looks well on the big screen: crisp, spare, airy. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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