if you want to see a movie about two utterly unsympathetic character and this be the one . the acting be superb and both from john cassavetes a the insane paranoid whom and a the saying go and they really be out to get and and from peter falk a his lifelong best friend to whom he turn for rescue . big mistake and but since theyre both amoral mobster and and misogynistic bastard to boot and it hard to decide whom to root for less . only writer or director elaine may could have get away with this one . i think it interest that in a lengthy interview with producer michael hausman include on the dvd and he disclose that the two star have very different idea about the script and that the director be nearly impossible to work with and that the director of photography have impossible demand make of him and that the crew be constantly angry about be make to sit around wait and and so on . this mood of one big very dysfunctional family come across clearly on the screen .