Hardened criminals Thomas J. Murphy and Michael Zane lead a gang of five using an Elvis impersonators convention as cover to violently rob the Riviera Casino. The others get eliminated either during the heist or infighting (allegedly?) over the way to divide the loot and launder it. Zane returns to the desert rat hole 'last Chance' sleazy diner run by divorced Cybil Waingrow, who makes a second income of seducing and robbing men with and for her smart cheeky rascal Jesse. Once she knows about the laundering, Cybil dumps Jesse of Zane so she can try to steal it, but Murphy, who already left a bloody trail including dead cops, recruits a new team, just like the police. Fortunes and betrayal keep shifting while the victims pile up. A gang of ex-cons rob a casino during Elvis convention week. I feel this movie was a worthy 2 hours of my time. Look at all the other countless films that have an archrival race for the cash. Such films will include the bad guy to take 3000(he he) bullets to die. Or spy movies, the good guy is never shot although 3000 bullets miss by a hair. In this film the good guy actually gets hit with a shot gun and seems to die. Luckily this guy has a little bit of brains and wears a bullet proof vest. Boo YAH. Genius whoever thought of that? This movie is not the best in the crapper but it was a doozie. The only thing I have objection about is the horrible Elvis crap. It makes sense in the beginning because there is 10000 other Elvis's. After the bust, they carry around machine guns. Overall 8 out of 10. P.S Ice-t was off da heezy! it wasn't THAT bad of a film…. there were a lot of good action sequences, and Costner played a pretty good part all in all, but, the script probably could have been a bit better, and, unfortunately, it seems that not too many people take Kurt very seriously… (personally, I like his acting, but, then again, has he ever been considered for an Oscar?) I gave the film a fairly generous 5/10 (average) mainly cause I like this Genre of movie. This is a high octane ride that starts to leak gas before it even gets going.
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