Choppy, Unbelievable
Buscemi is usually pretty engaging - regardless of whether the character is a bad or good guy - but this movie is a rare exception. Stifled (and stifling) dialogue suffer from a great lack of support from the wholly unbelievable story line and a stiff, disconnected performance by Miller. Some of the interactions were great, making me think the film was on an upturn, only to crash again. Overall, I thought some of the father-daughter undertones and sexual innuendo were handled well, and I was interested in Buscemi's good guy-bad guy duplicity; he had a way of making you feel sorry for him while thinking he was s***... but that is classic Buscemi. It saved the film from a NO rating, but only by a slight margin.