This wasn't a very god movie. It's about two pairs of couples. One is a real estate agent (Diane Lane) and her estranged husband (Thomas Jane) and the other is a professional hitman (Mickey Rourke) and his hotheaded protege (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). The pairs collide when JGL and Mickey try and shakedown Diane's boss for $20K. The bad guys get away but Mickey has a rule about never leaving witnesses. Now he has to flush these two out of Witness Protection in order to finish the job.Pretty much all of the characters here are scuzzy. Diane Lane is a shrill paranoiac, Jane just seems really confused by everything, Rourke really gets into the Native American aspect of his character, JGL is expertly unappealing, the very definition of mens rea, and Rosario Dawson (oh, yes, she's in this too) is fragile and weak.
I'm sure that adds up to the movie seeming more realistic but it also makes it fairly hard to watch. And not in a slightly squeamish this-could-totally-happen kind of way. More of a damn, this is boring and I hope something blows up pretty soon kind of way.
I cannot stress to you how good of an actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is, though. I hated his character but it is wildly different from the one he played in (500) Days of Summer or Lookout or the one in Inception. I imagine it'll be a much closer comparison to the role he has coming up this summer in Hesher but I won't know for sure until I see it. This isn't a good film but he is good in it.
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