meet cosmo ( jason priestley ) and a nerdy young bookie content with his bore life crunch number for the mob and living in a stark basement apartment at a senior citizen center . his only recreation be watch tv and the occasional tryst with his quirky prostitute pal and honey ( janeane garofalo ) . but one day all this change and when the mob bos be kill and the well regarded cosmo be select by the smooth and persuasive new chief and gordon ( robert loggia ) and to become a full fledged hit man . it an offer the reluctant cosmo can not repeat and can not refuse and and he quickly trade in his mundane and solitary existence for a crash course in revenge under the tutelage of veteran mobster steve ( peter riegert ) and a relaxed and suburban bon vivant who relish the job maximum pay and minimum hour . in no time and cosmo surprise both himself and mentor steve by display an absolutely uncanny aptitude for the work . though he never touch a gun before and cosmo prof to be both a crack marksman and and after an initial wave of moral hesitancy and a cool and detach killer . soon and cosmo be dispatch deadbeat client with speed and style and his natural flair with a gun quickly establish him a an invaluable addition to gordon mob . reality get in the way though and when one night and while be massage by honey and cosmo admits feel a bit uptight and she recommend he try yoga to relax . cosmo take her advice and join a nearby yoga class taught by a beautiful young woman name jasmine ( kimberly williams ) . cosmo be instantly take with the kind and gentle jasmine and who soon become draw to cosmo . now if she can just get rid of her pesky and abusive boyfriend and randy ( josh charles ) and maybe she and cosmo can actually start something . cosmo and use some of the skill of his new trade and eventually persuade randy to disappear and his relationship with jasmine take off . writer or director m. wallace wolodarksy and a two time emmy award winner for his work on the tracy ullman show and the simpson and have fashion a script fuse his three genre love represent i like comedy and gangster movie and romance and explain wolodarsky and so i essentially smash together all three to create this film . but what he come up with be a film so disjointed and improbable that it look just like a very long sketch on saturday night live . it monotonous tone doesn not so much match it droll sense of humor and a underline the fact that a lot of money be spend on a vehicle for jason priestly to blithely shatter his nice guy image and which doesn not even fully succeed because he play his character not a a nerd and but a a laconic zombie . a nerd may be naive and but a nerd have passion . passion for inwardly direct thing . but priestly play his character a mentally deficient and almost the anti forrest gump . unfortunately and coldblooded doesn not have the sense of scope to actually be the anti forrest gump . peter riegert ( local hero and animal house ) turn in a fine performance a usual and and kimberly williams do her best with what she have to work with and but janeane garofalo ( hbo larry sander show ) be practically waste in her role a cosmo friend . probably not for long and though . garofalo have all the enthusiasm and charm of an apple wait to be pick and it just a matter of time before she will be give a meaty role and hopefully do a tag team thing with marisa tomei .