Just about any movie that involves the mob will get a look for me, which will often suck me into such bombs as this one. The problem isn’t that it’s about the mob, it’s that it moves so darn slow. Sure, there’s plenty of blood along the way, but ultimately, nothing happens until the final ten minutes or so. That last ten minutes isn’t bad – it’s the eighty minutes leading up to it that is so painful to get through that makes it simply unbearable to get to that it’s just not worth the investment.

Claire (Kyra Sedgwick) is loyal to a fault. Beyond a fault, probably. She’s loyal to The Boss (Robbie Coltrane). She’s loyal to her partner Nick (ultra-cool Stanley Tucci, probably the only reason to watch the movie). She’s even loyal to mob moll Kitty (Robin Tunney), after a fashion.

The problem is that she ultimately can’t make a decision on who to be loyal to, and since Nick is dying and he usually tells her what to do, she’s in a bit of a pickle.

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