It's a (yawn) revenge crime drama set in 1980s southern California. It follows a man who has successfully worked as an airline maintenance engineer for American Airlines for 12 years and gets into trouble with crooked cops.
Jimmie Rainwood (Tom Selleck) and his wife, Kate (Laila Robins), live in Long Beach. They live a picture-perfect life and are planning a vacation trip to Thailand. Mike Parnell (David Rasche) and Danny Scalise (Richard Young) are two crooked narcotics cops who routinely steal some of the drugs they seize during arrests. One night when Jimmie is home alone, they mistakenly raid his house and accidentally shoot him. While he's still unconscious, they decide to frame him by planting a gun and some drugs.
Jimmie is convicted and sent to prison. There he encounters Virgil Caine (F. Murray Abraham), a mobster in prison for the long term. Virgil helps Jimmie survive against gang leaders like Jingles (Bruce A. Young).
When Jimmie gets out, Parnell and Scalise threaten him, so he decides to take revenge, though it doesn't turn out quite as he anticipated.
This movie is bad. The script includes one hoodlum cliché after another, and the characters are primarily stereotypes following a plot that beggars belief. It sounded like a green scriptwriter's first draft. The one exception is F. Murray Abraham. The direction is remarkably bad, too, for a well-known director.
Jimmie Rainwood (Tom Selleck) and his wife, Kate (Laila Robins), live in Long Beach. They live a picture-perfect life and are planning a vacation trip to Thailand. Mike Parnell (David Rasche) and Danny Scalise (Richard Young) are two crooked narcotics cops who routinely steal some of the drugs they seize during arrests. One night when Jimmie is home alone, they mistakenly raid his house and accidentally shoot him. While he's still unconscious, they decide to frame him by planting a gun and some drugs.
Jimmie is convicted and sent to prison. There he encounters Virgil Caine (F. Murray Abraham), a mobster in prison for the long term. Virgil helps Jimmie survive against gang leaders like Jingles (Bruce A. Young).
When Jimmie gets out, Parnell and Scalise threaten him, so he decides to take revenge, though it doesn't turn out quite as he anticipated.
This movie is bad. The script includes one hoodlum cliché after another, and the characters are primarily stereotypes following a plot that beggars belief. It sounded like a green scriptwriter's first draft. The one exception is F. Murray Abraham. The direction is remarkably bad, too, for a well-known director.