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Stepbrothers Stewart (Vinny Giovaniello) and Chris (Bill Houskeeper) have had a strained relationship, ever since Chris stole Stewart's girlofriend Rachel (Katherine Kamin). Now though Rachel's out of the picture and Chris has a new girlvriend, Emily (Elizabeth Brannen Davenport), and he makes an attempt to patch up things with Stewart again - with, let's say, moderate success.

In a seemingly unrelated story, a murder victim is found outside Stewart's ex-boss's (Dennis Knight) office, which shocks the man so much that he re-hires Stewart, officially as a salesperson, but inofficially to find the killers of the corpse outside, because you see, Stewart was once with the CIA. Soon enough, more corpses pile up (though not all outside the office), and Stewart and his partner Jeremy (Edward W. Johnson) eventually pick up a few promising leads. However, neither of them would have guessed the man behind these murders, the local crime kingpin, is actually Stewart's stepbrother Chris ...

So ok, due to budgetary constraints most probably, this film isn't the most lavish of productions, maybe best proven by the fact that the baddie of the piece, a local crime kingpin, seems to reside in a not exactly roomy storage space, and also the film suffers a bit from the amount of dialogue given to waiters and bartenders who do nothing but serving drinks. That out of the way though, lovers of gangster cinema will find this one rather entertaining, it ticks all the boxes, sure knows genre tropes and is filled with plenty of action to keep one well entertained throughout.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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