Filmed presumably for the slap-happy MTV generation this follows a collection of lowlife assassins chasing a guy named Aces Israel who has a large price on his head. Even though he is under the protective custody of agents (Ryan Reynolds and Andy Garcia) this isn't going to stop ex-cons, sleaze bag vixens, and a tattooed gang with chainsaws and machetes trying to do their best to "smoke" him.

It's hard to believe the likes of Ben Affleck, Ray Liotta, Peter Berg, Taraji Henson and Alicia Keys would get mixed up in a film like this. The pay must have been good. The film is blunt in all the wrong places, violent to the point where folk around me were cowering in their seats and rounded off with one of those risible endings where things need to be "explained" almost as an apology for a sorry plot. It's so late Eighties: tired and lacking inspiration.

Joe Carnahan who made the impressive thriller Narc (also with Ray Liotta) may have made this as a means to an end. Make this one cheaply for a Hollywood studio, and maybe he'll get a more worthwhile project next if this returns a reasonable profit. Strictly for lovers of guns!