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. It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. With $3.2 million at stake, the Marshals Service closing in, and single mom Cybil Waingrow and her son Jesse constantly confounding things, Michael must track down Murphy. Ok, I rented the DVD on this but allowed my neighbor to watch it first-he returned it saying it was "bad" and not to bother. Though he and usually disagree on alot of things, he was correcto-mundo on this one. The movie started out ok and just gradually got worse and worse. As far as casino heists are concerned, seeing all of the casinos security people get shot up just bugged me; not only is it not realistic for a gang of Elvis impersonators to do this, but the fact that these dumb idiots got away with it just hit a spot with me. The "shoot em up" scenes and constant killing of everyone just didnt belong in this movie-Quentin Tarntino movie, yes, this one, no. And portraying the two cops that were folling these guys as idiots just did not make the movie any more entertaining. The dumbest, most ridiculous scene was when the highway patrol officer pulled Kevin Costner's character over, and started twirling his gun around his finger. Yeah. The ending was even worse. If I were to ever meet Mr. Costner I would give him my condolences on this film. Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox, David Kaye, Christian Slater, David Arquette, Bokeem Woodbine, Kevin Pollak, Thomas Haden Church, Howie Long and Ice-T star in this 2001 action film. This begins with ex-con, Michael (Russell) who works with a group of men, Murphy (Costner), Hanson (Slater), Gus (Arquette) and Franklin (Woodbine) pulling off a Las Vegas casino heist dressed as Elvis Presley impersonators. Soon, things go bad when Franklin is shot in the process by cops and Murphy decides to kill Hanson, Gus and Michael for the money. Michael survives and tries to get the stolen money back, but has help when he meets attractive woman, Cybil (Cox) and her young son, Jesse (Kaye). Pollak (The Usual Suspects) plays cop, Damitry, Church (Spider-Man 3) plays his partner, Quigley, Long (Broken Arrow) plays pilot, Jack and T (New Jack City) plays gun expert, Hamilton. This is a good action flick with a cool cast and Costner is a good bad guy. I recommend this. Courteney Cox is good as a sexy, hard-pressed single mom, but she alone can't redeem the prevailing stupidity.
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