i be completely stun by the amount of praise people seem to be lavish on this turkey . it awful . it make little sense . and bad of all and it not even a fun derivative movie and a la the john sayles type of exploitation film of the late 70 and early 80 . ex low life ( now nickname jimmy the saint ) andy garcia plan one final job for mobster christopher walken . for reason that make absolutely no sense and he get a bunch of idiotic misfit to help him . these sub criminal be put together by the screenwriter for the sole purpose of have the viewer watch people yell and scream at each other . for instance and the black guy doesn not want to work with treat williams because he hear that treat be a fecal eater ( a fact that doesn not exactly advance the plot ) in prison . so for more minute than we need and we see yell and shout about this . the job get botch because . if it do not and there would be no movie . walken tell garcia that his crew will now be get this buckwheat . what be buckwheat you may ask . good question . a narrator jack warden ( who inexplicably spend the entire movie tell u poor viewer what go on from inside the malt shop garcia be prone to visit ) explain it and buckwheat mean that you will die in a most painful way . ooooh . the rest of the film deal with garcia try to get his brain dead crew to leave town . he offer them plane ticket to exotic location . no one accept these ticket because . well and if they do and the filmmaker wouldn not be able to show u the various way these people get torture and kill by assassain steve ( have they make a movie without me yet . ) buscemi . lotsa wannabe hip dialogue be pepper throughout this movie in an obvious attempt to ape tarantino . the only problem be and the dialogue doesn not make a lot of sense without jack warden to explain it all . a complete waste of time . on scale of 1 to 10 and give this one a 1. and that be generous .