this film either get one star base on objective merit and or ten star on how well it infringe on the rarefy thin air of ed woodish pretension to greatness . i mean and i think it try to be good . everybody seem pretty earnest . but what a po . i saw this movie a while back and but just saw it again on action channel . miss the classic beginning chase . comment follow on what i do catch this time around . this movie be like a lesson on how not to make a movie . major point of incompetence . edit represent typical scene start off with a coffee pot on a kitchen counter . girlfriend walk into scene and get a mug and glass from the cupboard and pour a coffee and then open fridge to fill glass with orange juice and then walk out of frame . empty kitchen . continuous shot and static camera . what the point . why do we have to see this . for real and i be actually start to fall asleep . over and over we see an empty room and character walk in and barely ever a cutaway during conversation ( and usually to a person not speak . ) and then character leave and and we see an empty room again . why . about eight consolidated minute of empty room shot . what the hell . cinematography represent there this scene where jacob sneak up on his girlfriend on the couch . lazy as director or dp never move the camera . so the whole time the girl be talk to jacobs and you only see the side or back of her head via this wacky low angle shot that be dominate by a couch . the bottom part of the couch . in another scene where this mobster be talk to his girlfriend ( just before he kill her . ) and there be weird stick like shadow all over his face . didn not anyone notice this during film . audio represent frankly and i never clearly hear the director comment others have note because he be drown out by other ambient noise . noise like foot shuffle and traffic and airplane fly overhead . make you really appreciate the sound design on auto dealership commercial and etc . and where you hear the talent and only the talent . action sequence represent hard to believe this film be a contemporary of hard boil . in one ambush scene and three killer with m 16 and uzis fire a total of five shot and sequentially and of course . one of the bloodpacks doesn not blow and so you just see this wad of white fabric explode out of one victim shirt . just before theyre shot and all the actor look like you do when youre go to pop a balloon and stiff and all and cus you know the bang be come . one of the urban gangster killer then actually sling his m 16 before hop off the backyard deck . surreal . write represent there be too many inexplicable nonsense scene and like when the urban gangster punk bust into the cop house and play dart with the light off . huh . be ist da . it like and wow and maybe i do fall asleep because this stuff be so complex . i do not understand . actual dialogue sample from another scene represent i be gon na cut you and man . eh and all the rest be on a similar level . the actor seem into it and a if they care and but the performance be bad . i guess you get ta lay that on the director . so there represent horrible and lazy direction . a actor and only jacob seem to mail it in and but i think he be try to play his character just a bit too cool and so it just seem like he be sleepwalk . his name be in the end credit like six time and so he must have make an effort . after watch this and you will want to buy a handycam just to prove anybody off the street could do good . and and yes and you would .