john cassavetes film have never be know for have a clear resolution or for their tidy and organised story and but the killing of a chinese bookie just end up take the ps . it tell the story of cosmo vitellus and an la nightclub owner with a dangerous gamble addiction that get him into trouble with local gangster who give him another option after he can not pay the debt represent kill a renowned chinese accountant work for a powerful west coast crime syndicate . the decision apparently force him to question himself a a man and but really just make him sweat every decision out and shout at everyone . to say the film be unbearable would be unfair . from it appeal open scene and one might expect something of mean street calibre ( cassavetes come up with the idea with the help of scorsese and it turn out ) . however and after the actual killing of the chinese bookie and the film spiral into a cinematic oblivion of unexplained escape and inconclusive ending . cassavetes seem to have waste his many fine talent a the godfather of american indie cinema and ruin what could have be a very good film . shame .