Stephen McHattie stars as mild mannered guy who has his life fall apart around him, essentially pushing him over the edge. So he sets out for revenge against his ex-boss who left him to take the rap for a criminal enterprise he knew nothing about. But before he sets out, he hooks up with a young woman (Laura Harris) who claims he's the dad she never knew, though he denies it. With her are three companions, her nice-guy boyfriend (Gordon Michael Woolvett) and two violent, sociopathic robbers (Bernie Coulson and Jason Priestley, who also served as one of the executive producers) she had impetuously joined up with at the beginning of the film. McHattie's a fine actor (heck, they're all respectable actors) and he delivers a nice performance playing a sympathetic character rather than the sinister tough guy roles he's often associated with. But the first part of this movie is interminable, confusing and disjointed as it employs various flashbacks to show how Harris and McHattie meet. The movie picks up once the entire cast is together and hits the road, but still suffers because only Woolvett and, to some extent, McHattie are sympathetic. An endless stream of cussing and vulgarity also gets tiresome.
--D.K. Latta
